Will camp help with the finance/income situation? I hope it does and you get to buy yourself some furniture and/or health insurance.
in the long run, yes! in the short run, no – this time around we’ll be cutting it pretty close to profit even a tiny bit (and also it’s april which means i have to clean out allll the bank accounts for the IRS). we underestimated a lot of costs (especially airport transportation), underestimated the amount of team members coming/flying, and also hadn’t yet anticipated the truly enormous sum of money we plopped down to prevent a group of 50 PASTORS (yes, PASTORS!) from sharing the site with us that weekend. (we didn’t think it would be an issue, because who would want to share the site with 200 lesbos? well, these pastors did! so we had to take care of it. hurumph.)
but we’re learning A LOT this time around, and it’s gonna be SUPER FUN, and if it goes well then people will say nice things about it, and then we can do it again in the fall with more financial foresight. this is the “pilot” run so to speak.
we’ve crunched the numbers and eventually we think twice-or-thrice yearly camps will be a large part of our business model, and i have high hopes for that. it always makes me nervous to bank on banking in the future, but i just have to close my eyes and dream with this one, as some might sing.
we need everybody to really love it this time to make the future happen, so. love us. also marni got me a real desk for my birthday and when my subletee came back and took all her furniture we went to IKEA and got me a giant bookshelf. so that’s progress!
in which Barbara Walters thinks it’s okay to ask Jenna Talackova “So if I saw you undressed you would look like a woman to me, totally? Yes?” (VIA - On 20/20, Trans Beauty Queen Jenna Talackova Enlightens Barbara Walters, Your Family)
sometimes I feel like my life is too boring to write about. who wants to read a book about ritual & self doubt & getting high by yourself? but I feel really compelled to write & to be read, like my story isn’t only mine. it’s easier if it’s not just you.
i think in general it’s best to err on the side of not writing about yourself and your life unless you feel like you really need to tell that story or work it out on the page. only do it if you have to. maybe you never have to, maybe you have to every day. it’s not that there’s anything wrong with writing about yourself and your life, but writing can only really be good when it’s necessary.
Do you think you’ll ever regret your tattoo? I really want to get one on my arm but I’m worried that I might regret it when I’m older.
um, maybe? it’s possible, i guess.
but i think if i do grow into a person who has a lot of regrets, my tattoo wouldn’t even make it into the top 10. i’ve made a lot of questionable decisions.
if you’re unsure then maybe wait a year or three. if you still want it then as much as you do right now then i think that would be a good sign. that’s what i did.
