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.
It is totally gorgeous, Allyson.
My two students just got tattoos as a birthday gift. Birthday girl got a really stylized purple butterfly with star cutouts on her bicep (it's way less girly than it sounds; this is the young woman who's a sponsored skater and a wildfire fighter) and the other got three tiny stars on her hand. I was teasing them that the stars escaped from Girl One's butterfly and went to Girl Two's hand.
Definitely jealous. I would like ink, but doubt I'll ever get up to it. It would definitely need to be hideable for me, though.
I see that there are now two MLB teams worse than the Royals now. Awesome. Now if they can catch Baltimore, they could achieve not being the worst team in the AL. I'm pulling for them.
It's nice that you remain so innocent, Gud.
