I want a dog so so badly and I keep looking at the Minneapolis pit bull foster program and having elaborate daydreams about getting a dog after election season is over and I don’t think me being a puppy mom is going to happen in the near future but I WANT A DOG and I would love it so much someone give me something else to obsess over please
I told my baby brother I was going to try and not shave my armpits all summer and he just shrugged and went “more power to you”.
BODY ACCEPTANCE START EM YOUNG
sometimes my life feels like it’s spiraling out of control in tiny, irritating, myriad ways, but then I imagine putting my anxieties in little paper boats and letting them go into rivers that flow into endless oceans and it honestly makes me feel better.
My dad is letting my brother watch “Game of Thrones” with me and lost his shit when one of the prostitutes came on screen.
Because the thought of a lady’s tits is more offensive than images of war and flagrant misogyny and classism.
My parent’s parenting is weird.
I hate that I can always tell when the cups are empty in movies or TV shows, like when an intern delivers coffee and I CAN TELL that it has nothing in it, just by the sound it makes when someone sets it down.
And then it throws off the whole scene. Like, you couldn’t fill it with water to make me absorbed in the story? GUH.
So I just started working for Minnesotans United for All Families as a community organizer. Essentially, my job is to get people to vote “no” on the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex couples from ever getting married (same-sex marriage is already illegal in Minnesota, and this would make it even harder for those couples to get married in the future).
It is intense. It’s an extremely emotional campaign (for obvious reasons) and we need to have over a million conversations with voters before November to make sure this amendment doesn’t pass. 29 other states have had these amendments. 29 states have passed them. We want to be the first one that doesn’t.
It’s immensely difficult because of the emotional nature of the job, the long hours (our training week is 60 hours; regular weeks are more like 70), and because I have never done organizing before. I’m learning everything. Every day there are a million new pieces of information that I have to process and remember and execute so that I can be amazing at my job and we can defeat this amendment.
So that’s why I probably won’t be able to devote as much time to lovely procrastinatey things. Your good thoughts are appreciated (and if you live in Minnesota your volunteer time and/or a “no” vote).
I love it, and it’s the kind of activism I’ve always wanted to be involved in but damn am I exhausted. 7 more months to go!
OHHH MY GOD my brother just saw a picture of Clementine from “Eternal Sunshine” and said “is that you?”
YOU THINK I LOOK LIKE KATE WINSLET WITH COLORFUL HAIR SORT OF.
LET ME CRY TEARS OF JOY FROM THIS COMPLIMENT
I WILL WATCH ALL THE SPORTS MOVIES WITH YOU.
Amanda and I have decided that we are naming our apartment “wunderkammer”, which means “a room filled with oddities and curiosities”.
Also I do not think men should be given cookies for writing Strong Female Characters. While it’s more enjoyable to read them I’m not going to stand on a chair and applaud men for doing what women have been doing (and living) for fucking ever.
