Haha! Nope! Alex is dating a different Jess who lives in LA. I live in NY.
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Some people got married and some could get married and some people apologized and others hugged a lot! Sometimes women can make sushi and also we love Neko Case! Happy (kind of belated) Sunday…
this is one of the weirdest formspring questions of all time.
i initially observed this formspring question this morning, and was like, this is weird? so then said to my girlboyfriend bcw/marni, ‘look at this weird question, there’s no way this could be jess,’ and she looked at it and was like 'is alex dating someone else besides jess now?’ (bcw knows jess because bcw and i have hung out with alex/jess a few times in LA and in SF) (not jess R who writes for AS, a different jess!) and i was like 'i’m emailing this to alex, just to be like, this is funny right, because this doesn’t sound like jess,’ and so i screenshotted it and sent it to alex and alex was like 'wtf?’ and so then alex showed it to jess who was 'horrified/confused’ because, obviously, it wasn’t her, and i was like, yeah formspring is so weird right? why would anyone send me this strange statement.
and then later on alex was like, 'it’s super interesting that someone sent you that weird question the night/day after we had our meet-up [in LA].’ because obviously alex brought jess to her meetup and introduced jess as her girlfriend. then alex pointed out, and i think it’s a valid point – “why not just ask 'Hey, is it awkward that Alex is dating someone else in LA?’”
of course, i wouldn’t have answered that question because it’s weird and i think i’ve already answered ~2 questions on this topic and not answered ~25 questions on this topic and i think alex has too?
anyhow, i’m posting this question/answer just to CALL YOU OUT FOR BEING A TOTAL FUCKING WEIRDO
WE LOVE YOU, YOU FUCKING LUNATICS
Ani said “if you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid or you don’t care.” Maybe that’s not what you’re talking about, though.
i think you’re 16.
you’ve got all the time in the world to figure this stuff out.
I suppose it hasn’t been easy living with me either
with my piques, and ups and downs, my need for privacy
leo pride and weeping in bed while you’re trying to sleep
and you, interrupting me in the middle of a thousand poems
did I call the insurance people? the time you stopped a poem
in the…
I know which site I am writing for, dear reader; I know that many of these problems are not your problems, and are in fact the result of my being a massively privileged straight lady. But I was sitting there, in a cold-ass emergency room, reading this woman Di Prima who actually got to be a writer, even back when sexism was way more overt, in the goddamned 1950s she got to do it and in 2007 I was being encouraged to get married by 30 and perfect my filing skills, and I’m telling you: It wasn’t fair. I had just started to notice how unfair it was. I had just started to think of it in gendered, and not purely personal, terms. I had just started to believe that it was essential to start writing again – not poems, I had lost any skill I’d ever had with poems, but something else. Essays, maybe. I had just started. I was sitting there in the hospital, waiting to be born.
