In which I reveal the truth about my lost youth

[nos4a2no9]

There's an interesting meme going around that asks you to pick ten things you'd say to your sixteen year-old self. The answers that have been posted are by turns heartbreaking, and wise, and incredibly honest, and very, very silly. I really don't know quite what to tell wee!Nos at sixteen (or eighteen, or twenty, for that matter) but I suspect any

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[omphale23]

4. I know, I know. Every single boy you befriend and fall desperately in love with eventually comes out to you. Don't take it personally. They are sweet boys, and they will love you more than anyone else will for years and years because you offer them friendship and acceptance. It's just a pattern. It doesn't mean anything.

Oh, god. I thought I was cursed for a while, because every guy I dated turned out to be gay. It was all very strange, because two of my cousins went through the same thing within a couple of years of each other.

On second thought, maybe it *was* something about the women in my family. *g*

I'm coming to Toronto! *twirls* I'm actually trying to scam my supervisor into taking one of my class sessions, so that I can have both the 27th and the 28th off. I'll keep you posted, and if he takes it you can pick which day works bets for you.

(Did you know that primroseburrows is also going to be up that way in July? I couldn't remember if I mentioned it or not.)

[nos4a2no9]

(I did not know that! She is totally awesome - I think we spoke for about five seconds at MJ and she revealed herself to be both very cool and very willing to put up with my nervous stammerings).

[omphale23]

She's very awesome. Although we tend to get started talking about Stan Rogers and never get back to anything else...

Sorry, LJ ate half my original reply. Stupid LJ.

[nos4a2no9]

I thought I was cursed for a while, because every guy I dated turned out to be gay. It was all very strange, because two of my cousins went through the same thing within a couple of years of each other.

*g* Maybe we were cursed? Or putting out some kind of vibe that said, "Hey, boys, tell us your seeeeekrits!" Still, those guys really were my best friends, apart from the people I've met here during graduate school. I wouldn't change a thing, apart from the whole believing-I'm-cursed-never-to-have-sex thing. Ah, high school. Never change.

I'm coming to Toronto! *twirls* I'm actually trying to scam my supervisor into taking one of my class sessions, so that I can have both the 27th and the 28th off. I'll keep you posted, and if he takes it you can pick which day works bets for you.

Yay yay yay! Scam that supervisor! Either day works fine for me (I can easily switch my shifts around to free up the time) and I meant what I said about willing you into submission over the Tiffany's AU thing. Also, did you get my email about staying here

[pir8fancier]

Link to Above Ground Swimming Poor flocked? Another way to access it?

[nos4a2no9]

I think china_shop has to friend you, but you can get in contact with her (leave a comment on her last public post) and she can give you access. It's worth it, believe me. Smoking. Porn. Yummmmm.

[china_shop]

Hi, I just pre-emptively added you to my RPS filter so you can access it. Hope that's okay. Feel free to ignore. :-)

[pir8fancier]

YAY! Thanks!

[lipstickcat]

Your problems are your problems, and moving won't change them. All you'll manage to do is to convince yourself that the solution to everything is change, and that has to come from within.

Huh. Now, that could just as easily be advice to me...

[nos4a2no9]

*g* I'm still woefully ignorant. But I think it's sound advice, and if it saves you from thinking of your current life as something you're slogging through until the next "good" bit rolls around...well, I've done my job. *dusts off hands*

[spuffyduds]

::wordless hugs::

[nos4a2no9]

::soundless snuggles::

[china_shop]

♥

[nos4a2no9]

~o~ <-- which is supposed to look like Paul Gross Huggy Arms (tm) but actually looks more like he's doing some weird disco dance

[omphale23]

It's not so bad. I tried to make Paul Gross on a broomstick tonight (you don't want to know) and it turned out terribly.

\o/---{E

See? I don't get it. It made sense in my head.

*stunbles off to bed to sleep off several trial drinks involving fizzy blueberry juice and everclear*

[nos4a2no9]

Yeah, no, that is...I'm not sure I have words to describe what that is. I thought perhaps the fizzy juice and everclear was to blame, but there's no alcohol in that. Poor Paul will never get to zoom around on his broomstick.