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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

I’m thinking of buying a new laptop before starting grad school. I want something that will last a while, relatively lightweight. Primary use will be schoolwork. Not a Mac. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

even though you don’t want a mac, i still have to suggest a macbook air. beyond that, here’s a good list of ultralight laptops that i like: http://www.tecca.com/pictures/5-best-ultrabooks/

what do you want to do with it? if you’re not doing anything top heavy duty, google has a new line of “chromebooks” that will probably be v. affordable and pretty awesome for cloud computing/autostraddling

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Really important and great film from In The Life Media:

IT GETS BETTER: PARENTS OF TRANSGENDER CHILDREN SPEAK OUT 

The first “It Gets Better” video of its kind: Featuring parents from PFLAG’s support group for families of transgender children sharing their personal struggles to understand their child’s needs and find support for both themselves and their families.

CATEGORIES: GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION, YOUTH, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

Share with yr parents and families! I just emailed mine :)

Source: itlmedia.org

my dad died when i was a teenager and sometimes i feel like i’m never going to heal completely. everytime my life is going fine, something happens & i can feel the pain creeping back up again & i don’t want it. it’s been 9 years! will it ever let me go?

no, it won’t
you have to learn how to live with it
every day
i know it seems impossible
but it’s possible to live with absence forever
and if every now and then it comes crashing down –
and it will
it will!
it will sometimes come crashing down in embarrassing unexpected ways
you may one evening be drunk wailing to somebody unrelated about how the only person who ever really loved you for you is dead
you might do that more than once or twice
you have to accept the pain
and go forward in spite of that
it’s not right or fair, it just is
you are loved.

http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/2008/12/year-in-review-2008-all-i-know-is-that.html

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What if I never find the woman that I want to spend the rest of my life with? Should I just give up now?

of course not! BE PATIENT, GRASSHOPPER!!!

i want to share this quote with you, it’s from a story in the short story collection ‘birds in america’ by lorrie moore, who is tied with mary gaitskill and stephen dunn for “riese’s favorite writer of all time.”

“What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels.There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.”

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

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