Diary Entry #131

Today was really good.

I caught the train up to rendezvous with Becky, Meri, and Mara.

We raided the arcade, and played a lot of Dance Dance Revolution, House of the Dead, and a little Air Hockey.

Mara beat our asses at everything except House of the Dead which we unanimously sucked at. 

Meri uses the support-bar technique when playing DDR, but Mara doesn't, and they have a tongue-in-cheek rivalry about it.

Becky threw down twice on the claw machine and scored Tails Doll and a Kirby.

Afterwards, we went to a Japanese diner, and we scored a bite together.

It was so good.

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My baby cousin, bless her heart, has encounter her first gender-nonconforming friend and her immediately response was to introduce us.

This little thirteen year-old came running into a group-chat with me and my cousin and was like, "I love anime, being non-binary, and drawing."

I said, "I love all of these things, too, but I would also make sure you parents know you're talking to me, because I know my dad would've be like, 'You can't just talk to strange middle-aged women on the Internet'. "

It makes me happy, though, that my cousin would rep me to her friends like that. I think that's how I know I'm being a good role-model - the children know I am safe, especially for people who are like me. 

I wish intergenerational friendships weren't so unusual in America.

They showed me a ninja they'd drawn.
I showed them today's drawing of Love - they said Bea's character is very cute. 

The kids are alright.