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My girlfriend is camping and this is the first time in 2 years that I haven’t heard her voice in a day and I miss her so much and I feel irrational. Why are lesbians so sensitive?????
my question is why do lesbians go camping so much?
reading autostraddle’s life advice formspring is like living 7th grade through, oh, junior year of college happen all over again. but this is probably my favorite answer yet.
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I read on Twitter that you’re looking for a publicist. Please check out my company website at http://merewordsmedia.com. I’d welcome the opportunity to learn more about your PR needs. Kevin Avery kevin@merewordsmedia.com
i have a public twitter for a reason. so that i can publicly mock shitty outreach like this that complete mis-uses a platform. feel free to email him your thoughts. (i don’t need a publicist, by the way. i need a way to filter out the shitty publicists of the world from those who i actually adore working with.)
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What do you think was the most pivotal event of this decade besides yaybestdayever?
I think it’s safe to say 9/11 was the wowworstdayever.
The biggest non-trauma-inducing event was probably me moving to LA in 2004. It was the first time I lived somewhere without one foot out the door or an itchy, restless urge to move on. I had never as an adult quit a job or left and apartment without going all the way cross-country, but almost as soon as I got here I knew I could finally settle down and stop looking for somewhere else.
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If you could pick a Sliding Doors moment, i.e., go back to one point in your life and see how things would have played differently if you’d missed that train, when and where would it be?
I made a list like this once but it was all about career choices — if I’d stuck to doing politics, if I’d moved to LA at 22 and tried to get a job in TV then. But beyond job ladder what-ifs, it’s kind of a scarier question now. I don’t want to imagine an alternate future without Jessica!
I do, though, wonder what might have happened if she and I had met earlier. We both moved to LA in 2004. We had mutual friends by 2005. I could have gone to Halloween in West Hollywood with Chris that year and met Jessica then. Instead we didn’t meet till mid-2007, and didn’t go on a date until six months later.
I know a lot of why we had such an easy, suddenly-so-serious relationship was not whatever u-haul stereotype (not really either of our style) but because we were old enough to have each basically gotten our shit together separately. We were both over the idea of finding drama or self-destruction romantic; at the same time we were both keenly aware that happiness could be fleeting and it was worth the risk to try. If we’d met two years earlier I’m not totally sure I would have been ready or it would have been so easy. Theoretically, sure, I would want two more years of us together, because I’m a greedy newlywed bride and I want an eternity.
But in this case I missed the metaphorical train, that first (of probably many) chances to find Jessica — and I found her anyway, and it was definitely the right time then. It’s the best luck I’ve ever had in my life, and the best evidence of fate I’ve had, too.
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If you could go on vacation for the next month with an unlimited budget, where would you go?
Paris. Last night I made Jessica teach me how to say “next year in Paris” in French but as I don’t speak French (except the fake kind, and even that not all that well) I can’t remember.
