Wishing I was in Austin just about now

WT is on a multi-city tour this month performing solo at small clubs and coffee shops and hits Austin tonight. I sent my bf. My cell phone chimed and the text msg that came in was "W is tall." A statement of the obvious. Something I feel/felt acutely hanging out with W is that the self-consciousness that I almost always feel about looking/being Asian falls away when I am with W, because people, strangers and acquaintances alike, inevitably fixate on his height. It is a marker of difference and it is such a distinctive marker that it prevents invisibility and/or anonymity that some how eclipses any markers of my own difference.