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Hi Alex, I’ve been having trouble eating since I have a stupid disease. Do you have any recipes that are easy / not heavy / heavy, but with a fair amount of calories? (i nearly fainted today due lack of calories/sugar)

Hey I might not be much help with this, as I currently struggle to feed myself, but I had to say: if you haven’t put cheese (shredded, sliced, whatever!) on top of tortilla chips laid out on a plate (as well as any other stuff you want to throw on top) and microwaved it, you haven’t lived!

It’s currently my favorite food, it probably has a lot of calories in it, and it takes literally about a minute to make.

Bagels are also very portable, inexpensive, and caloric, yeah?

Those would be my suggestions though I know they are not very good ones.

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I dunno, but living in Portland for 7 years, I still don’t look forward for non stop rainy days. How are you handling the rain so far? Also, have you been to any music shows? So many great bands coming through town.

I have been to a number of musical-type performances, the venues here are great! I’ll be seeing Tune-Yards and Wild Flag in the next few months, which will be the best concerts ever, obviously.

I’m really enjoying the rain so far, but you might have to ask me again in March. Biking in the rain is a bit challenging because I still don’t ever end up wearing the right thing. I think I need rain paints; I just don’t want to admit it. Please don’t say I need rain pants.

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When do I come out to my 11 year old sister? I’m 12 years older and want to be an example of someone who is proud and unashamed! But my dad and stop mom asked me not to talk to her about it. PANIC WHAT DO I DO

the same thing happened to me! i’m 10 years older, and i just respected what my stepmom asked me to do.

and then one day, i drove her to this park that we both really love and we walked on this trail and i told her i liked girls and not boys. and she stopped walking and told me she loved me and that even though she knew what her church said about gay people, she didn’t really feel the same way.

then she asked how girls have sex.

you can always tell her later on that when her mother asked you not to say anything, you chose to keep the peace. you won’t seem ashamed or not proud, you’ll just seem like someone who knows how to deal with her mother.

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alex! hi! i’m looking to get into communications/visual+graphic design but didn’t study it in my undergrad. any tips on breaking into the field? should i go back to school, or maybe try learning on my own and build up a portfolio? i just dunno! thanks :)

Hey! Design programs aren’t big commitments if you find, say, a two year associates degree. The benefit here is not the actual degree or your GPA – it’s the classroom environment, the inspiration from professors (and their experience-sharing and/or connections),the projects you do that get you kick-started on your portfolio, and just being in that collaborative community environment. I think it’s worth the investment :)

Hope this helped and good luck!

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Laneia I just went off on a group of sort-of-friends for being raging Trans*phobes complete with the unfriending/blocking of facebooks. And… even though generally what I did would be called “the right thing” I’ve never done that before and consequences

(con’t) of (maybe not so tactfully) calling them out on it may very well affect my standing with this huge social group (they’re anime con-goers so everyone knows each other) and I’m just… ugh. Tell me I did the right thing?

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YOU DID THE RIGHT THING

fuck those assholes. you need those people like i need a chopstick in my ear.

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I really want to dye my hair pink again (I also would like to get a harry potter tattoo and plaster my walls with pictures of Tegan & Sara) but I feel too old and I have my own business so I feel like I need to look/be professional/adult. Thoughts?

i feel like the best part of having your own business is that there’s no boss telling you that you have to have your tps reports in by monday/not dye your hair pink! if you’re seriously worried about customers/clients being turned off by it, i get that. but i mean, hair dye doesn’t last forever, and being awesome does.

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