Wow, this is addictive // Seattle
I'd forgotten how useful it is to have a place to vent. Apparently I have a lot on my mind, because I have a lot of things I want to write about. Considering that I'm currently posting from class, this might not be a good thing.
I'm going up to Seattle for spring break to visit family and friends that I haven't seen in over a year. I'm looking forward to it, but it also has me worried.
I've changed a lot in the past year; those of you who have seen me will probably know that in addition to being skinnier (hurray for walking around a gigantic campus for an hour a day), I'm at least a little gayer than I was before I left for school. I don't mind this; I think I've managed to start expressing myself without worrying about how I appear to others.
But that only applies in Berkeleyland where I'm hundreds of miles from anyone I knew before.
In Seattle, there are relatives who don't know about my gayitude at all. And I know for a fact that at least two of them are hardcore Christian fundamentalists who voted for Bush twice. I don't know how I plan to handle this yet.
I'm going up to Seattle for spring break to visit family and friends that I haven't seen in over a year. I'm looking forward to it, but it also has me worried.
I've changed a lot in the past year; those of you who have seen me will probably know that in addition to being skinnier (hurray for walking around a gigantic campus for an hour a day), I'm at least a little gayer than I was before I left for school. I don't mind this; I think I've managed to start expressing myself without worrying about how I appear to others.
But that only applies in Berkeleyland where I'm hundreds of miles from anyone I knew before.
In Seattle, there are relatives who don't know about my gayitude at all. And I know for a fact that at least two of them are hardcore Christian fundamentalists who voted for Bush twice. I don't know how I plan to handle this yet.