Long day. Good, but long.

Today has lasted years, it seems like. Do you ever feel that way? I think about this morning and I suddenly become very tired. Let's see, where to start...
I went walking this morning, then cleaned around the house- ran errands. Then one errand required me going forty minutes away. Since I hadn't seen my best friend in a few days, I asked her to come with me. We get lost downtown, but we find our way back again.
Upon returning home, I get ready to go to church with my daddy. On the way there, we continue our always-running discussion about racism.
Now my daddy is a very impartial lawyer who does his best to help whoever comes to him, regardless of race. He also would never condone the withholding of rights based on race. But when it comes to me and my social life, he might as well be back on the plantation.
As much as I argue with him about equality, he just will not accept mixed race relationships. Personally, I think love is blind.
Anyway, he considers my best friend a "bad influence" because she has quite a few guy friends who just happen to be black. I admit that here, below the Mason-Dixon Line, blacks and whites do have different cultures and behavioral aspects. So yes, my friend does act differently than most white people around here. But that's one of the reasons I like her. My daddy has just been too engrained in racism, he doesn't see past it when it comes to the people I hang out with.

However, this same friend just got in trouble, so now I have taxi her to and from school for another month because her parents postponed her getting her liscense. This slightly agitates me, I won't lie. I love that girl, but some days I just wanna go straight home, you know?

That's all I've got for now.
Ttfn!

Love,
Anna