Allyson, that's a great tattoo!
God, I want more ink so much. I have it all planned, too. Where's the goddamn tattoo fairy when you need him?
I KNOW. I really need to crack the whip on that artist I have around here and get him to finish the next batch of designs.
Actual email from asshat on OKCupid:
do you tend to be submissive in bed? most fat girls are.
My self-esteem remains intact.
OK, so I'm reading
Geography of Bliss
which is particularly resonant of late. Cause I'm startled by the happy (two days morose is fading) and poking at it like a new discovery. Anyway, so many pages are bookmarked. Have to share a tidbit :
Change your location and you just may change yourself. It's not that distant lands contain some special "energy" or that their inhabitants possess secret knowledge (though they may) but rather something more fundamental: By relocating ourselves, we shake loose the shackles of expectation. Adrift in a different place we give ourselves permission to be different people.
Um, can I say hallelujah? Been changing places for 6 months, and oh yeah, I done do that.
(For the record, book is very irreverent, quote notwithstanding.)
That book looks excellent, sara.
do you tend to be submissive in bed? most fat girls are.
Oh my god. I would be so tempted to show up at his door with a bullwhip.
do you tend to be submissive in bed? most fat girls are
Is it wrong to reply, "do you tend to be stupid in real life? Most douchebags are."
You've just reminded me that I have a lot of OK Cupid mail to reply to. I'm sure all the guys have had time to find their perfect matches and get married since we last chatted. I'm so bad with that shit.
(but I'm not so happy I'd try dating. Oy. I'll stick to expensive trips and ill advised whatevers. Shutting up now. Really, sara.)
I like Cashmere's reply!
FWIW, AA calls changing your location in the hopes of changing yourself a 'geographic cure' and don't think that it works, at least for abuse issues.
Theo, oh lord no, not what I was intending to imply. Just that for me, changing locations, be it across town or on the other side of the world, I DO give myself permission to try on other aspects of my person I don't otherwise, break out of myself, and when I've come home, they sorta stick. I hope.