Okay, so I was sitting at my favorite computer inside the Carleton University library when I learned from the client liaison officer of Securitas Canada that I was fired from Bell Canada, supposedly because someone thought they saw me sleeping in the ladies room. What the fuck? I looked at my cellphone like it was possessed and shot the bearded Arab librarian dude my don't-fuck-with-me look. Dude got the message and wisely stayed in his seat. Man, I'm having a really lousy time.
My name is Aisha Mokhtar. I was born and raised in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. My parents hail from the City of Mogadishu, in the Nation of Somalia. Never been there and I don't intend to ever set foot there but I'm a proud bisexual Somali-Canadian tomboy. I stand five feet nine inches tall, thick and curvy, with long Black hair and dark brown skin. I'm a chubby Black female with wide hips and a big butt and I am PROUD of my body. No, I don't wear the hijab. Just because I'm Somali and female doesn't mean I wear it. One's background matters, you know? However, we're all unique individuals. I truly believe that, I guess. Most Somali people you will ever meet are Muslims. However, Christianity is fast growing among Somali communities living in places like Somalia, Djibouti and the Republic of Ethiopia.
We've had clashes over that. Religion is a big thing in the lives of Somalis. One thing you'll never hear about Muslims living in Western countries is how intolerant they are toward other religions, especially Christianity and Judaism. They love to cry intolerance in North America and Europe when they don't get their way but they won't let you build a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or Somalia. Of course, Westerners in their infinite stupidity can't connect the dots. I guess that's why one day their world will be overrun and turned into a copy of Saudi Arabia. Or something along those lines. It might take centuries but it will happen. Unless Westerners stand up to the Muslims for their Christian beliefs and their faith in democracy along with women's rights and secular government.
Why am I telling you all this shit about my former community? I've got my reasons. My family basically disowned me the day I came out of the closet about my bisexuality. I don't consider myself Muslim anymore. Mosques are full of hypocrites and liars. Churches are full of them too. I consider myself an Agnostic. I'm a trouble-prone chick trying to get by in a cruel world. Anyhow, I got to get myself a new job like pronto, man. I've been with Securitas Canada since 2010 and they just fired my ass in the final days of April 2012. Want to hear some funny shit? The morning of that very same day when I got fired, I was talking to none other than my supervisor about my vacation pay. Yeah, I wanted to take a little vacation.
I hadn't taken one from Securitas Canada since 2010. Oh, well. I doubt they'll give me my vacation pay now. Life is terrific, isn't it? I sat in the library, typing away on Facebook and quietly fuming. Fuck this shit. I've got five hundred and eighty dollars left on my bank account with the Royal Bank of Canada. I owe over a thousand dollars to the bank's credit card company but I worked out an arrangement with them. I'm going to pay them one hundred bucks every two weeks until the fifteen hundred dollars that I owe them is cleared. Actually, no. I'm going to pay them until what I owe them is basically under a thousand. The moment I hit nine hundred and ninety nine, they're off my back and I can go back to making minimum payments of ten bucks whenever I feel like it. Yeah.