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Vegan PhD candidates with cute gay haircuts absolutely do NOT have their shit together. If anything, you should be giving thanks that you are not one. You write for Autostraddle! Doesn’t get more awesome than that.

i just want you to know that this question was flagged by formspring for being inappropriate but that i heartily approve of your use of potentially off-limits words like “shit,” “gay,” “vegan,” and “awesome.”

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A-camp made it very clear that I need a ukulele. I have zero experience with musical instruments. Where/how do I get one? What do I do with it?

the first place i would recommend going is uke hunt (ukulelehunt.com).
a) they have such a phenomenal name that i would tell you to go there even if their site was shit.
b) they have tips on buying a ukulele and learning to play, as well as chords for everything from will smith to ingrid michaelson.
also, if there’s a music store by you, I’d go there instead of ordering one online because then you can play it before you buy it.

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Are boy exes as psycho as girl exes? Why are girl exes so psycho?

i think that most people are not crazy, they just feel crazy because they have a lot of feelings about a person who has stopped having feelings about them and it’s pretty impossible to feel anything but 100% insane when that happens. they are also very sad and don’t have then energy to stop their mouths and their bodies from saying and doing stupid things. i know this because i was once one of these nutcases.

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I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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may 5, 2010: g-chat with marni

  • riese: my ultimate goal
  • is to make autostraddle really awesome
  • like and change the world etc
  • Marni: right
  • riese: and then in 10 years get like a billion dollars for it
  • and build a self-sustaining community
  • that is a summer camp for weirdo girls
  • and during the year it's like a kibbutz
  • and we can make art and like, grow food, and build shit
  • and in the summertime girls come and we have a full summer camp, but we all pitch in, to like keeping it running
  • and they learn like leadership skills and how to be happy and ok with themselves, and we do writing workshops and go into the local communities and fix fucked up shit
  • I AM CRAZY
  • marni: that sounds way far from crazy
  • me: my whole dad's side of the family were farmers
  • marni: i told you about my self-sustaining non-profit girls leadership skillbuilding thingo? also my love of camp?
  • not crazy.
  • me: no
  • marni: anyway yes. so first step is change the world. then the 1 billion.

Sometimes when I think I said something dumb in a conversation, that convo keeps playing in my head over and over until I have analyzed it to the point of death. How do I make it stop!!

“You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain, and it just keeps sounding stupider? And you have to say something else just to make it stop?”
- my so-called life episode 104


[i don’t know, but you should feel comforted that angela chase feels the same way]

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so where did this whole socialnetworking thing go? you know this stuff on the bottom of the page. did I miss something?did you tell us already about it? I don’t want to complain (cause you are awesome/AS is awesome/everything is awesome), just wondering!

um, it’s causing a lot of errors for our script or whatever,
but tess and alex are doing something about something
and i feel like something will change, somewhere
and be better, maybe, or try to be better
or maybe ask alex
i’m just here to tell jokes

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