The things that would tick off Arnie would be the things that would tick off Bert.
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It is easy to tick off some of the pitfalls.
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We'd rather not tick off items from your shopping list.
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This is one guy you should never, ever tick off.
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Go to View and then tick off the Use Stacks option.
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But people here tick off more things they know Carlos for.
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The last stitch Seconds tick off into minutes, which turn into hours.
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With each thing I mentally tick off, the better the day seems.
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They've got to tick off a load of boxes — Is it actually warm?
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The first option to tick off here is metal bracelet or leather strap?
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The ski pass at least, he could tick off in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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Tick off everything on your Christmas list in the Amazon Black Friday Sale.
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"I've become a connoisseur, unfortunately," Ms. Klein said, picking a tick off Mackey.
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Nacho Fries tick off two boxes for Taco Bell — menu innovation and value.
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A doctor at Southampton Hospital recently pulled a tick off a woman's eyeball.
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"The sooner you get that tick off of your body, the better," he said.
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If you want to tick off a rhinoceros, try this: Drug the unsuspecting animal.
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A surefire way to tick off fellow Bachelorette contestants if we've ever seen one.
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For one way to really tick off Trump's base is to start arresting them.
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A new year means new opportunities to tick off the destinations on your bucket list.
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Tick off something you love about your SO, or write an original love note below.
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Tick off everything on your list in one go with this impressive range from Argos.
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"I can tick off the bills and the policies and the accomplishments," Obama told the author.
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For example, its mobile app enables appraisers to tick off items, rather than write everything down.
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I watched the kilometers tick off on the dashboard speedometer and I rolled down my window.
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"You tick off the Jew When you write what is true," one of the contributors wrote.
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But Congress is loath to raise rates and tick off people who live in flood zones.
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Use tweezers to carefully and steadily pull the tick off, grasping near its mouth or neck.
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Trimble allowed seconds to tick off on the shot clock, back stepped and released the ball.
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The more of these boxes one can tick off, the more of a head start one enjoys.
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Men, conversely, will put themselves forward if they can mentally tick off 60% of the job requirements.
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I would tick off more excuses, but those would just make me hungrier than I already am.
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"They were going to tick off one group of employees one way or the other," Hirsch said.
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It could also tick off a growing number of consumers that have invested in high-end headphones.
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And the fact that Qatar is getting help from Iran will only further tick off the Saudis.
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The crowd cheered as they watched Fox News tick off state after state for Donald J. Trump.
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She can tick off the countries, though she is not sure if they are in the right order.
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It's easy to tick off the uniquely 21st-century diseases that plague humans today: obesity, heart disease, diabetes.
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If you can tick off two of these elements, the third is probably going to let you down.
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It's the perfect opportunity to make big savings and tick off loads of items on your Christmas list.
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Someone would go through the bin while someone else would tick off the inventory list: Several fake noses.
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Armchair travelers can tick off the sights: the Pantheon, the Forum, the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Palazzo Barberini.
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Young provided us with several concrete tasks that you can tick off your to-do list right after moving.
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The two tick off topics like family, friends, dinner, dogs, cocktails, married life and being in an interracial relationship.
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But it's sure to tick off conservative Republicans, who consider an offer of citizenship nothing less than amnesty. 3.
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The bottom line is that Pitaro does tick off a number of the key boxes for the ESPN job.
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Tick off the checkboxes for all the highest configurations and it balloons up to an I'm-gonna-cry $133,213.
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Tesla's electric-vehicle, solar energy and battery-storage businesses tick off big sustainability themes in the era of climate change.
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These aren't just statistics to tick off, but men, women and children with hopes, dreams, loves and now, thankfully, lives.
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A longtime Republican, he says he "cannot allow Hillary Clinton to get in," and proceeds to tick off the reasons.
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But for the pop star, diversity is not a box to tick off when launching her lines: It's her reality.
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While the land confiscation is the hot-button issue currently, residents of Sevastopol tick off a long list of grievances.
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Then, Hill took it one step further: he would personally accompany his pal to tick off every item on the list.
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As the final days of 2016 tick off, one could see how closing up shop would be appealing for many investors.
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It won't tick off any boxes for being an ultraportable, but it will crush every laptop out there — technically and physically.
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This is sure to tick off Mideast ally Turkey, which considers some Kurdish fighters to be part of a terrorist group.
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Gulf nations crisis Qatar's going to restore diplomatic ties with Iran, in a move sure to tick off its Arab neighbors.
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"Sometimes the people at this podium are new to the national stage," she said, preparing to tick off her many titles.
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Really, the only thing large about it can be the price for those who tick off the option boxes willy-nilly.
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"He looked like he might have been a tick off," said Martin, who caught Sabathia for two seasons as a Yankee.
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After leaving Braavos, Arya goes on to tick off more names on her assassin list, and eventually makes her way to Winterfell.
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If, however, you can tick off all those boxes, the device has the potential to seriously alter your workflow on the road.
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Trump has taken action on other fronts, clinching a series of accomplishments that tick off campaign promises on trade and other areas.
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He is jumping in the race very late and will tick off some voters for seeming like an opportunistic Johnny-come-lately.
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I like the message in that: that we can tick off the boxes, and yet we still don't quite have it together.
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T-Mobile has specific guidelines that are necessary for streaming services to tick off if it wants to participate in the program.
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They tick off several boxes — including a positive, purpose-driven outlook and social interaction — that research has found helps maintain cognitive function.
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Maybe you want to visit 30 countries before you turn 30, or you want to tick off every capital city in Europe.
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"He would tick off a rather prominent member of the Freedom Caucus in Mo Brooks, and Mo Brooks's supporters," Mr. Hillyer said.
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Judging by this trailer, the film could very well have the juice necessary to tick off the "fan favorite" box in that checklist.
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I don't envy Tim Cook if your choices are, give Uber special treatment, or potentially tick off a lot of your customer base.
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I just wish that when I tick off the box that says "white," I could explain what my situation was in the world.
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The Senate's fix, however, could tick off conservatives, who think the tax credits are too much like the subsidies they're supposed to replace.
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Any longer and the act would feel like a total chore, just another thing to tick off before getting to the Netflix nightcap.
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"If it's missing the 3.5-millimeter earphone jack, that's going to tick off a lot of people," he told the Australian Financial Review.
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" Applicants do not need to tick off a laundry list of engagement in every field, like art, music, sports, Mr. Schmill explains. "M.
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It also plugged more resources into its offering, which includes a mobile app that let's appraisers tick off items, rather than write everything down.
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They tick off the streets already trodden, divide up those still to go, and head out for another evening of door-to-door canvassing.
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Whenever you purchase a new device, it's normal to have a checklist of priorities and you want to tick off as many as possible.
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You can tick off jobs as you do them, and in some cases Taco can sync this action back to the service in question.
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Do tick checks, and if you do pull a tick off of you, you may be able to take a preventive dose of antibiotics.
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Beyond its borders With each of these developments, China is trying to tick off the boxes for the characteristics required of a global superpower.
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Be smart: After tech heavyweights defeated a pair of piracy bills in 2012, lawmakers tip-toed around issues that could tick off the industry.
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Also, Darko's spirit-guide/schizophrenic hallucination is a dude in a terrifying rabbit suit named Frank, so we can tick off that box too.
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Even still, Matt can tick off to the day how long it's been since he stopped on June 6: 163 days as of Friday.
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"When I talk to the senior staff of those two committees, they will tick off on both hands multiple examples of slights," she said.
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The board, used to list administrative goals and tick off accomplishments, shows the word "taxes" written in large letters and punctuated by exclamation marks.
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Russia can tick off all the world powers, but those powers will not do anything because Russia has the energy it needs to operate.
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There is still hope for you if this is the case, because you can tick off everything on your wishlist for less with Nike.
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Others were here for the clean air, warm weather and wildlife or to tick off seeing the Sydney Opera House from their bucket list.
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Each airline has a long list of items to tick off as they upload the new 737 MAX software, including fluid changes and engine checks.
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But he still listens to Ed Sheeran all the time... It would be incredible if we could tick off this part of Ollie's wish list.
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But he won't resign, which is sure to tick off the people in the US territory who have been calling for him to step down.
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"Going traveling" has become one of those things that you're supposed to tick off an imagined bucket list by the time you hit your thirties.
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On paper, they look like they tick off all the boxes, but why should anyone consider them over an iPhone 7 or a Galaxy S7?
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A promotion to Single-A figured to be a ho-hum stepping stone, a prerequisite to tick off on his inexorable climb to the majors.
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Many voters who may not be as invested in local races will simply vote the line and tick off the boxes under the major candidate.
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It's all sure to tick off the President, who once told The New York Times any investigation into his finances was crossing a red line.
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With more than 10 million items on the site eligible for one-day shipping, you're bound to come across something to tick off your list.
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Another time in November, Mr. Trump heard Jason D. Meister, an adviser to his campaign, tick off a list of his accomplishments on Fox News.
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It's just something you deduce as you tick off a string of late-game objectives that deliver more loot but nothing new to do with it.
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And I can't, you know, tick off a whole list of scientists that are pro-sea level rise and a whole list of scientists that aren't.
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But before we consider what that could mean, let's tick off the alternatives to Stark victory in the so-called Last War for the Seven Kingdoms.
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These are ballots where the voter appeared to tick off more candidates than allowed (overvotes) or on which they voted for fewer candidates than allowed (undervotes).
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From there, "Klaus" concocts original ways to tick off practically all the boxes of a Santa origin story: How the means of transport became a sled.
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Ms. Kreissman didn't want to tick off each day against some dark timeline, so she chose instead to live the way she had before the diagnosis.
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Yale-New Haven Hospital has empowered nurses to change medication schedules to minimize sleep disruptions and to tick off other tasks before patients go to bed.
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In a full day of negotiations on Saturday, the parties were also hoping to tick off issues including finances, rents and real estate prices, agriculture and municipalities.
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" Woz knows Steve Wozniak's warning Apple not to ditch the earphone jack when the new iPhone is released because it will "tick off a lot of people.
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Of all the beard trimmers we researched, our favorites are from Philips Norelco and Wahl because they tick off all the requirements for a great beard trimmer.
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But entrepreneurs face a dilemma: If they go running to regulators, they have to admit they're in danger and tick off a powerful player in their world.
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Aside from making it trickier for bird fans to tick off all the species on their list, how we classify bird species has serious implications for conservation.
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It's clear that, for some people, having sex with me would just be another exotic experience to tick off their bucket list, like wakeboarding or salsa classes.
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Sitting around a table at Bantam Chef, where they regularly meet, Mr. Sinclair, 72, and his friends can still tick off the names of the shuttered operations.
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There were no specific rules prohibiting Sharapova from being placed in the draw and held in a purgatorial state while the final days tick off her ban.
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Clearly, D&I is more than just a metric to tick off on a list of "to-dos," but it's an integral part of a profitable business.
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Kelly proceeded to tick off all the overwhelming evidence that Hillary Clinton is both ahead and increasing her lead, and Gingrich essentially dismissed it as not trustworthy.
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But this year, you might not just forget about a dinner date you set before the backspin, you might also royally tick off the friend you stood up.
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But Boehner's remarks have a wider significance than being just another example of how Cruz manages to tick off virtually every human being he comes into contact with.
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Finally, Apple may tick off a box it failed to do with the MacBook Pro refresh in the summer: a non-Touch Bar model with updated Intel chips.
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But the area is home to so many messy territorial disputes that Beijing's little stunt is sure to tick off Vietnam or Brunei or Malaysia or the Philippines.
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"I can probably tick off three or four common-sense things we could have done where we'd be growing a percentage or two faster each year," Obama said.
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"I can probably tick off three or four common-sense things we could have done where we'd be growing a percentage or two faster each year," he said.
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Manning each desk is a clerk with an iPad, trained to recognize every MPs face in a split second and tick off the right name as they shuffle past.
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You can tick off the boxes "Suggest emails to reply to" and "Suggest emails to follow up on" if you don't want to see this orange text ever again.
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With five-hours of battery life, rock solid Bluetooth connectivity, and a decent microphone for making phone calls, the Jabra Elite 65t earbuds tick off all the right boxes.
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Reliever Mike Montgomery, with a chance to escape a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the fifth, had Turner's comebacker tick off his glove for a two-run single.
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"My thoughts turned to the children, the poor darlings, who must be scared and confused now, wondering what they did to tick off the gods of education," he wrote.
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He's expected to tick off his accomplishments in front of other world leaders, including the Iran deal, the Paris climate agreement and the diplomatic thaw with Cuba and Myanmar.
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There are three key pillars of protection when it comes to a VPN, and if your service of choice doesn't tick off all three, you need to look elsewhere.
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You may not know a G minor from a C7 chord, but we all can easily tick off a few personally meaningful songs that start with a memorable guitar riff.
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He held it, waiting for the last few seconds to tick off, only for North Dakota's Corey Baldwin to snatch the ball and try and hit a last minute layup.
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The more traditional silver coloring has survived the upgrade, as well, so if you're partial to a light shade, you can tick off that option during the check-out process.
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Its newest game is set across large, open areas, rich with murderous opportunities, side-missions, collection-quests and challenges to tick off on the way to 100%-ing each level.
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Today's do-it-all salves tick off all those boxes; plus, they come in unexpected formats like oils and stick balms, and harness unusual ingredients like noni fruit and bancha tea.
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Unite or bustWhile Carville is spouting off, other Democrats are trying not to publicly tick off Sanders' supporters and stress that the party has to unite around whoever becomes the nominee.
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By laying out his plans during the campaign, and securing a mandate for them, the president has managed to tick off a fair number of items on his to-do list.
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Drysdale, a five time world champion and bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, took 2013 off to "refresh his mind and body" and tick off some things on the bucket list.
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Trump did tick off a list of accomplishments, but his speech mostly centered on a string of personal grievances, fear-mongering about Democrats and attacks on his political opponents, past and present.
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As they relate their tales of spectral hitchhikers and figures in the shadows, many tick off possible explanations as they go, keen to note the limitations of their own evidence and perception.
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You're probably still a good passenger, and I have given rides to many 4.7-ers who were great people, but you've done something in the past to tick off a few drivers.
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That's a small hassle for being able to tick off a major financial to-do, with a premium that likely will run you less than the monthly tab for your cell service.
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Looking around the galleries you can tick off the same contemporary styles and trends — abstract painting, Minimalism, Conceptualism and so on — that you'll find at MoMA, or the Guggenheim, or Art Basel.
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While some thrillers tick off a checklist of red herrings on a predictable march to the finish, Moggach's creations, with their layered personalities and shifting motivations, throw more guesswork into the mix.
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Few things tick off a federal prosecutor more than being double-crossed by a defendant who came sniffing around for a plea deal the day before his trial was set to begin.
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He visits each of New York's 62 counties once a year, can tick off Long Island high schools by name and knows the best place in Buffalo for a "beef on weck" sandwich.
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Samsung and Asus both announced models at CES that fall under Intel's Project Athena designation, which means they tick off user-friendly boxes like all-day battery life and instant-on boot-ups.
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Its reception was fantastic—visually, its board game-like graphics and solid-feeling pieces impressed, and with each layout featuring a number of objectives to tick off, replaying previously seen stages was never dull.
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His family has been running the business since 1910 and the company moved into its current building in 1956, he tells CNBC Make It. Crocker can tick off the storms the structure has withstood.
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Colombia chased an open play goal as though it were the last item to tick off its shopping list, mostly because there was little reason to suspect they couldn't snatch one if they wanted to.
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"You tick off your base and you don't win other-party support, so you get the worst of both worlds," said Neil Newhouse, who has surveyed attitudes on impeachment for the House Republicans' campaign arm.
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It was, to tick off the liabilities, situated on one of the main drags in Ridgewood, N.J. Locally, it was a well-known pile of Second Empire gingerbread, with pink trim and a mansard roof.
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The 20 pages tick off the ephemera of late-Soviet life — preparations for May Day, profiles of successful farm managers — while just at eye level a projection of ominously dark storm clouds almost imperceptibly drift past.
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There are a few optional extras you can tick off to splurge on the Yoga 9203, including a 4K display, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, taking the grand total all the way to $1,999.
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Bannon viewed himself as the populist defender of Trump's campaign promises in the White House, working daily to tick off items from the list of promises that hung on the walls of his West Wing office.
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The menu is divided into sections like "Two Legs and Four Legs" and "Fins and Shells" and printed on a sheet of paper on which diners are meant to tick off their choices with a pencil.
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Instead of officials' silently tracking time (and seeming to loosely enforce limits), the clock will tick off the seconds for all the fans to see — and count down out loud, if the alcoholic spirits move them.
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"I can probably tick off three or four common-sense things we could have done where we'd be growing a percentage or two faster each year ... and those things keep me up at night sometimes," Obama said.
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They tick off the many ways in which Sanders easily out-progressives his opponent: He voted against the Iraq war, while she voted for it; he voted against the 220 bank bailout, while she voted for it.
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My main beef with Blackmagic's eGPU isn't just that it's expensive or that the GPU is non-upgradeable, but that there are a whole lot checkboxes you need to tick off to get it to actually work.
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The writer-director starts the way he means to go on by putting a funk track over the titles, and he proceeds to tick off the usual 70s signifiers, from elaborate facial hair to brightly coloured suits.
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The US and China are two of the biggest forces at the box office, so increasingly, movie studios are trying to tick off boxes on big budget films that'll let them appeal to moviegoers in different countries. Yes.
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Vice President Mike Pence takes the father of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died after being jailed in North Korea, to this week's Opening Ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea, a move sure to tick off the North.
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In the book, I spend a considerable amount of time trying to determine how best to stay informed these days, such as doing surveys where you ask people to tick off all of the news sources they regularly use.
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This approach to debt recovery is commonly referred to as the snowball method, and is backed by researchers at the Harvard Business Review because of how motivating it can be for people to tick off debts as they go.
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A ton of language learning apps are available, but what we like about those two in particular is they let you dip in and out of exercises, and set you small challenges that you can tick off each day.
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A lifetime subscription to this software includes 21 tools that make it easy to tick off those three boxes, from a test that improves your site's speed to an analysis of the keywords that are working for your competition.
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And she likes to tick off — and she's very, very happy to do it — the list of the numbers of counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 that she then carried when she ran for re-election in 225.
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Within that span of time they're faced with funding the government, reauthorizing controversial surveillance programs, passing a mammoth defense policy bill and trying to tick off wish-list items like drug pricing and Trump's trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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Facebook doesn't think its ads are that annoying It is not an unreasonable position — Facebook is free to use, completely optional, and funded by advertisements — but the change is likely to tick off those who find ads frustrating enough to block.
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And she likes to tick off — and she's very, very happy to do it — the list of the numbers of counties that voted for Donald Trump in 633 that she then carried when she ran for re-election in 2004.
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And she likes to tick off — and she's very, very happy to do it — the list of the numbers of counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 that she then carried when she ran for re-election in 2018.
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And she likes to tick off — and she's very, very happy to do it — the list of the numbers of counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 that she then carried when she ran for re-election in 20163.
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That leaves Republicans still agitating to continue the probe with a two-month scramble to tick off a lengthy and increasingly contentious to-do list: they want to depose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Director James Comey.
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Mind you, it's not that Marshall or any artist needs to carry around a checklist and tick off accomplishments of the work as he goes, but this omission seems odd, a blind spot in an otherwise insightful and panoramic vision.
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The Munich local started waitressing to tick off a box on her bucket list, but now sees the annual 16-day feat as a personal challenge, both a mental break from her creative work and a chance to push herself physically and emotionally.
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Less than a week on the job and Trump has already begun to tick-off his campaign promises, signing executive orders on everything from a restart to the Keystone XL and Dakota access pipelines to a wall on the border with Mexico.
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"She can tick off dozens of valued leaders and friends along the way who have mentored her over the years, including Scott Kriens, the 12-year CEO and chairman of the board of Juniper Networks, whom she describes as "a fantastic leader.
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The trend was advanced by the 2007 American movie "The Bucket List," a sentimental comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two aging men who decide to tick off a travel list to places like the North Pole, India, Egypt and Tanzania.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump used his State of the Union address on Tuesday to tick off a laundry list of economic gains, citing record low unemployment for women, higher incomes for households and a "blue collar" boom that he said is underway across America.
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Over the course of my week in Finland, I attempted to tick off all these steps, and despite failing to see the northern lights or pick berries of my own, I was amazed that living like a Finn really did make me feel happier.
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BUT I THINK STATE PENSION FUNDS, MY LORD, TO BE ABLE TO TICK OFF ALL YOUR ESG, TO HAVE SOMETHING CALLED J-U-S-T ON YOUR PORTFOLIO, IT SHOULD BE – I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A REALLY BIG ETF DOWN THE ROAD.
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"That would tick off one of Trump's post-G5003 promises, while going someway to reassuring the markets that, despite the situation with Huawei's (CFO) Meng Wanzhou, the nations are willing to adhere to what was agreed in Argentina," said Connor Campbell, analyst at Spreadex.
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It wasn't a particularly difficult ascent—each Tower, brilliantly, is a little puzzle of its own, some more challenging than others (shout out to the laser-guarded Central Tower, the penultimate tick-off on my list, which I only took on after loading up on Guardian weapons).
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Especially because, per that Sorkin article, Obama's self-assessment is actually reasonably harsh when he's not in defensive mood: "I can probably tick off three or four common-sense things we could have done where we'd be growing a percentage or two faster each year," Obama said.
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Fact Check WASHINGTON — In his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump is expected to tick off accomplishments from his first year in office and present his policy vision going forward — and The New York Times will fact-check him as he speaks.
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Meanwhile in the U.S., while President Donald Trump can tick off passing tax reform from his list of first year achievements, the discourse has now shifted on to the state of his mental health as well as the mid-term elections with a possible comeback by the Democrats.
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Far better to say, "That was then, this is now," tick off a list of initiatives aimed at improving the prospects of young black men and point out all the things he has done over the years along those lines (in a 40-plus-year career, they must exist).
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One of the things that struck me while reading the allegations against Schneiderman was how they seemed to tick off the checklist of lethality factors that prosecutors look for to identify a perpetrator of abuse who may have an enhanced risk of eventually causing the death of an intimate partner.
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As we walked past a stone manor house where the meeting took place, Mr. Horenstein pointed to the rounded rocks in its walls and, based on color and texture, proceeded to tick off their likely sites of origin — some from upstate New York, some from New Jersey, and so on.
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"I think the president would like to see [entry/exit] as a tick off the box for his Beyond the Border program, which he started," said Laura Dawson, Director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center, at an event on the state of the American-Canadian relationship hosted in Washington last week.
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While all the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad get some emotional shading in Tarantino's script, it's O-Ren who's positioned as a fully drawn counterpart to Beatrix — not just a name to tick off the list, but a vision of what can happen after all the wrongs that derailed your life have been addressed.
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But ask these teenagers what their biggest concerns are and they'll tick off similar lists: a historically unpopular president who has made a career out of racist demagoguery, a government stuck in partisan gridlock, too many school shootings to count, a future of crippling student debt, and a job market that promises them less than what their parents made.
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Dawidowicz can easily tick off a long list of rich people who have screwed Buffalo — the steel factory owners who left town, the Sabres owner convicted of a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, the executives at ATI Metals who he says have forced him to be locked out of work and on unemployment for most of the past 103 weeks.
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Regulars often tick off choices on the hors d'oeuvres list, a separate sheet of paper that comes with a golf pencil: a poached and oil-marinated sardine; crisp sticks of celery root in rémoulade that may need more mustard; ham with flageolets and a handful of other dried beans, each cooked until just tender; the egg mayo, on the menu since opening day.
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This urge to count, to tick off boxes and keep track, seemed part of what drove the members of the Circumnavigators Club: like philatelists or numismatists adding to their collections, but instead of stamps or coins, their quarry consisted of canceled visas and ticket stubs, digital photographs on camelback or yellowed Polaroids of themselves standing in the prows of ships.
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The election simply highlighted what had been overlooked for years, that as women tick off certain boxes on the march toward equality (as in, the growing number of female CEOs, growing number of self-made female billionaires, growing number of women achieving positions previously available exclusively to men) and seem to grow their collective force, there's a force just as great working to bring them down.
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Even those who described themselves as politically uninitiated could tick off the sticking points of his résumé, which have been blasted at voters in television ads: Mr. Morrisey grew up and attended college and law school in New Jersey, worked as a lawyer in Washington and lobbied on behalf of a pharmaceutical trade group funded by some of the opioid distributors that the State of West Virginia later sued.
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He and other antitrust experts tick off a number of factors that may have allowed this behavior to go on in the open so long: an extended honeymoon between DC and Silicon Valley; a legal system that places a high bar for ruling against companies in antitrust cases; and a lack of understanding of the business models of the big tech companies, not to mention the negative consequences of their platforms that would emerge in later years.
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Each essay deals with a different aspect of life: What's it like to be strip-searched every time you go to the airport because of the color of your skin, to feel like your cultural history is being forcefully erased, to be told you're loitering just for being "dark skinned in broad daylight," to feel like you're constantly switching between different versions of yourself to appease your environment, to have your career path negatively dictated by your ethnicity, to be chatted up or objectified just so someone can tick off some "Asian girl" fuck quota.
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