In one episode of Sex and the City, Carrie is shocked and hurt when she sees her first bus advertisement pass by…with a hand-drawn penis on her picture. She puts her hand to her mouth, an exasperated shocked gasp. Her friends immediately make a joke out of it and try to comfort her.

Today (after grueling hours of removing the Beagle/Bagle worm from computers), I walked into the computing center and in the back room, I found a defaced rescomp CIB. Now this rescomp CIB (basically a poster with latest annoucements) has pictures of all the RCCs (myself included – a sucky picture too). Apparently someone (most likely a guy according to the handwriting) doodled all over our faces. One of my coworkers\’ name was crossed out and replaced with Gretel. Another was left with a mark on his forehead (the Asian Indian tradition). Another\’s description said gay instead of friendly. And even worse, my coworker\’s head was drawn to look like a penis. My own demarcation was an Asian hat with a large label VC and some unreadable writing.

Racist, sexist, lewd…but I was amused. Someone took their time to deface a poster! I thought I didn\’t look Vietnamese at all. Furthermore, I didn\’t think I looked that communist. Who knew.