A few years back, I went on a trip to the UCLGBTIA Western Regional Conference with several people. When we arrived at the hotel rooms and it came time to divvy up the beds, someone suggested the classic method of boys in one room and girl in the other. It was pointed out that the nature of the group negated the traditional reasoning behind that ( Read more... )

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As I finish filling out another questionnaire for QSU because some student at HSU wanted to do their community involvement type paper on the gays, I couldn't help but be amused with some of my answers, and how I had to subtly avoid flagged words like "heterosexism" and talk all careful like. This is my personal favorite:

Why do you think it is ( Read more... )

Sir Ian Blair, the London Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said last Monday that London is safe enough to leave your doors unlocked. As a novelty for me, I left my door unlocked last night as I slept. I awoke this morning to someone knocking at my doors at 8:30 am. I thought no answering for you, sleep time is now. The knocking continued a few ( Read more... )

Who's Dan Malloy?

and don't say the Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, because I mean locally.

Mother always said to boil cold water. Do even start with your "'cold water boils faster' is a myth" argument, because that's not why. Warm water is heated and then sits in your pipes and becomes stale, whereas cold water is fresher. Also, heated water leaches metal as it travels through the pipes.

Discuss.

Sometimes I see my lifestyle as a spectrum between Laney and Andrew. Then I realize what a failed and stupid analogy that is an never mention it again.

Patty shaved her head, and I mean completely. It's lilith, but to such a degree that it's still deckI did my favorite thing in the world yesterday: I waited patiently like a seven year old to be ( Read more... )

Katherine said something to me once which I promptly forgot about for two years. I remembered it a few days ago in relation to some of the limerence theorizing that has been going through my mind: is limerence really that unique ( Read more... )

Three times in the last months of 2005 I planned to go down to Santa Rosa only to have those plans canceled: August 26, October 1, and December 31. All three of those weekends, something bad happened to Tyler. Something usually significantly bad. While I may ask why, and have various theories (keeping in mind I don't cause the bad things to happen ( Read more... )

Since I am all done with school now I've started doing research into limerence again. I plan on rewriting the rather sub-par Wikipedia article. I'm re-reading Tennov's Love and Limerence and I came across, once again, the part of limerence which has always baffled and confused me ( Read more... )