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.
Willow: Happy hunting. Buffy: Wish me monsters.
'Beneath You'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2009 5:53:06 pm PDT #9268 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - Sep 16, 2009 5:57:00 pm PDT #9269 of 30001
(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.)
Theodosia - Sep 16, 2009 5:59:03 pm PDT #9270 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
lisah - Sep 16, 2009 5:59:13 pm PDT #9271 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Love the new tat!
sarameg - Sep 16, 2009 6:08:27 pm PDT #9272 of 30001
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.
Liese S. - Sep 16, 2009 6:11:15 pm PDT #9273 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
quester - Sep 16, 2009 6:12:44 pm PDT #9274 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
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.
Cass - Sep 16, 2009 6:14:50 pm PDT #9275 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Is it wrong to reply, "do you tend to be stupid in real life? Most douchebags are."
If it is, I don't want to be right.
Jackass.
Dana - Sep 16, 2009 6:19:32 pm PDT #9276 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, man, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary died. Damnit.
Zenkitty - Sep 16, 2009 6:20:29 pm PDT #9277 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
By relocating ourselves, we shake loose the shackles of expectation. Adrift in a different place we give ourselves permission to be different people.
My last therapist warned me solemnly that changing my location wouldn't change *me*. And indeed, moving out of NJ hasn't cured my chronic depression or made me less likely to hide in my house, but I am happier here, for a lot of reasons.
I don't want to be a different person, anyway. I want to be the whole me, again.