my life

evayna

Despite white supremacist’s best efforts, you survive and thrive. Hell yeah, take that number from them.

This is such a good comment. :)

I always feel… almost wrong saying I’m part Jewish because I don’t feel like I’ve done anything to deserve it I guess. But it would feel wronger saying I’m not? It’s just so complicated and all mixed up in family history that seems to be very messy. I remember when I was a kid at some rubbish summer camp telling the other kids “I’m one-third Jewish” because that was exciting new information then. And other bits of information came out over the years about my Jewish grandfather (he died when I was 6) and my mum’s upbringing and our ancestors in Russia, and once my dad (not Jewish) told me how his grandfather, my great-grandfather, would have hated him marrying a Jewish person because he hated Jews. (Sucks to be him, then, ha.)

…It’s SO COMPLICATED. Gah. I’m not religious in the least and my dad used to be pretty hardcore Christian when I was growing up (so I ended up going to Christian daycare clubs and stuff) but I’m very very proud to be semi-Jewish. Fuck nazis!

Actually, you know what, I will post those pictures of the building I used to live in. Name of the building withheld to protect the guilty, but if you live near Leicester train station you’ve probably walked past it…

Image 1: loads of trash bags, boxes and some sort of loose, easy-to-trip-over plastic sheet lying on the floor. Yep, this was the way to the fire escape, great huh?

Image 2: One of the fire escape doors with… guess what… more boxes and bags piled up alongside it. There’s like a tiny space a person could run through to get to the door, hooray. (Sorry this picture’s so blurry. Yes, it does say ‘Keep clear’ on the door!)

Image 3: A WHOPPING BIG shiny new padlock on the old fire escape door, preventing anyone from opening it! How thoughtful.

Image 4: The fire escape area, which is… overgrown as hell, plants in the way and hey! More rubbish right next to the door.

….Living here was a picnic, honestly.