Damn

I’m always think that I’m just this close to being done with Liz’s harassment. I’ve said several times that I think it’s over. And yet, every time I think that Liz is done contacting me, I get another text message. Really. It seems to go that way. Just last night I was telling my friend Nicole that I thought she was finally done with me, and then this morning I woke up to two texts that had been sent to my email.

Sara-jean is due to leave in a week, uk terrorist plot. my friend was on cnn w- doctors without borders in israel and lebanon. shit.

I could care less re usa, but when they target my home, europe, i get pissed.

First of all…shit. She’s a U.S. citizen. I have to admit that she has traveled. She was an exchange student in the Netherlands, maybe twice. And she used to have a boyfriend in Ireland, so she used to travel there sometimes. But she was born in middle America just like me.

However, she really enjoys pointing out how superior the European cultures are, and by extension how superior and enlightened she is for having experienced them. She frequently sighs about how much she misses the Netherlands, or about how romantic Ireland was, or about how Europeans have their priorities right and Americans don’t. And because she experienced Europe, she has her priorities right and Americans, including me, do not. Once she even said that she could almost forgive my point of view because I was just an American.

Sigh. Anyway, as you can tell, she puts down America quite a bit. Now, I’m not saying America is perfect. Hell, I’m not even saying America is better than anyplace else. But if I said, “I could care less about Afghanistan, but when they target my home, the USA, I get pissed,” she’d call me a prejudiced bitch. And she’d be right.

<>Secondly…why the hell did she send this to me? Her most recent texts before this attacked me personally. Is she trying to bait me? The last time she did that she was much more deliberate about it. At first I thought the tone was civil, almost friendly, but Liz hasn’t been civil or friendly in months. I don’t know what she’s trying to accomplish here.

Damn. I have no idea why she bothers me so much. She just does. I wish she'd knock it off.