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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Will a culture of lesbians emerge that just like to read books? And sit about? Rather than standing around in clubs looking like prison gangs?

i think that’s our culture, right? like when the interns stay with me, or when i’m with laneia or other autostraddle team people or whatever … that’s kinda what we do. i mean, that’s what we do. i guess we should work on the “emerge” part.

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I’m bored. What lesbian movies/documentaries should I watch?

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I’m scared. My everything (heart, mind, soul if there is such a thing) broke a while ago, and I fell the fuck apart and went legit crazy for like a year. I got better, but I realized recently that I now have an actual phobia of emotional pain. It’s like a

it’s TERRIFYING, isn’t it?

i mean i see friends pine for girls who’ll never want them back and i think how can you let yourself do that? why didn’t you stop liking this person when you still had a choice? don’t you realize this situation will lead to at least a week of crying in the darkness? don’t you want to spend every day running sharply forward away from this hurt, don’t you want to start running now before your knees get too weak?

‘Cause in my world, you know – even people that you CHOOSE who also CHOOSE YOU who you thought you could trust/bewithforever sometimes do things that enable at least a week of crying in the darkness.

So just to err on the safe side these days I go with things that seem 100% perfect and long-lasting, because they definitely aren’t, but it seems like my chances are better with things that seem good rather than things that seem doomed.

i think i am too cautious. i am always afraid of someone being there one second, and gone the next. i’m always afraid of the decade-long lie i believed every minute it was told to me – i’m a suspicious, paranoid little thing nowadays and i wish i could take that feeling out of my gut and drown it in a canyon.

the thing is your heart doesn’t just close up shop. and not every love causes emotional pain.

you are the sum of these experiences. and every breakup and breakdown teaches us something more. life doesn’t get progressively better, that’s a lie – it’s always up and down and there’s so much you can’t control. but YOU can get progressively better. you get better at knowing who/what you need/want.

one day there will be somebody – a friend, a girlfriend, anything – who you can hold without shaking and love without aching and then you’ll open up a little bit and love won’t be like fear anymore and sooner or later you will be eating lemon squares on a bridge with someone pretty who holds your hand at all the right moments. maybe not, but it’s funner to imagine that happening, or to believe in it. i do.

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what can i cook with black eyed peas?

Well, I’m eating this right now: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2010/01/black-eyed-pea-masala.html

and i think i will make this later in the week: http://www.theppk.com/2010/09/caribbean-curry-black-eyed-peas-with-plantains/

mostly i just love talking about legumes. i think black eyed peas are good with garlic and greens, right? like collard and kale or something. or cooked in a giant soup pot with a ham hock. let me know what you make, i’m excited!

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riese. i can only poop when i do blow. but i live in a dorm with coed bathrooms, so i can only poop in the dead of night. but i can’t do blow in the dead of night or i can’t sleep. i need your guidance (yes, specifically you).

it is really funny that you chose specifically me specifically me because i am the person least likely of anyone you’ll ever know to answer questions related to the p-word.

that being said my friend, if you require ingesting illegal narcotics in order to perform traditional healthy bodily functions, then you need to get your constipated ass to the doctor, stat

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