GOOD WITH NUMBERS

“You’re good at Sudoku cause you’re Asian.” She says.

“So?”

“Your people invented it, you’re all good with numbers.” She replied.

She was racially stereotyping me because:

A) She has limited experiences with Asians
B) She is overtly racist
C) She’s incredibly ignorant
D) All of the above

I waved her off, not caring to correct her erroneous conclusions about Asians, which I’m positive she gathered from watching “my people” being portrayed in the media (huge bone of contention).

For her information: I’m good at Sudoku, because I like solving logic puzzles, not because I’m good with numbers.

Case in point: This week at work, it took the Payroll Accountant three tries on three separate occasions to get me to understand the mathematics involved in calculating the background performers’ payment. (It's really harder than it sounds. My head was spinning for hours, but I finally got it… Yay me!) Production accounting was supposed to be logical, not mathematical… someone lied to me!

I hate math. In fact, there are numerous high school journal entries pleading to the Numbers God to bless me with the brains to understand math, or at least let me scrape by with a passing grade. It never happened. I hate math.