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.
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
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.
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"
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.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 6:20:43 pm PDT #9278 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh dear god, allyson!!
Tell him "Gee, why do you ask? Wait! I know!! It's because you're such a pencil-dicked douchnozzle that a woman would have to be a pseudocorpse for you to feel secure enough to get some wood."
Ugh. But I mety bf on OKC. People there aren't all troglydytes.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2009 6:21:18 pm PDT #9279 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just browsed through OK Cupid. Man, the guys in LA are wordy and existentially angsty. I just messaged a guy who filters out women over 38 (his age). I felt ornery. He views my profile, but he hasn't replied to me yet. My profile is very brief compared to everyone else's.