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May. 15th, 2010
This came up because someone asked me what I thought of PETA the other day.
( Cut for length, and for stuff about my personal ancestry that you may not actually find all that interesting. )
( Cut for length, and for stuff about my personal ancestry that you may not actually find all that interesting. )
Writer's Block: Solo traveler
May. 15th, 2010 01:22 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
Writer's Block: Solo traveler
May. 15th, 2010 01:22 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
Writer's Block: Solo traveler
May. 15th, 2010 01:22 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
I'm actually very open by now. In my head, out my mouth. I spent so long hiding and manipulating and skirting the truth without actually lying but in the end just acting all the time so that I could get by on a day to day basis. So I don't do it now.
A lot of people think I'm emotionally guarded, though, because I guard my emotions. I'm open, but not in the sense that I wear my heart on my sleeve and let just anybody stick around and keep hurting me. I cut people off pretty readily if they're fucking up, and I'm okay with that. Doesn't mean I don't open up to people; it means I shut them out if they screw up and I never look back. They can come back when they learn to act right.
Getting rid of the idiots and jerks is how I keep my life a safe space for me to be open. If someone around me makes me feel like I have to start sneaking and hiding and playing games to feel safe? They go away. Because I'm not going to live like that again.
Our email list is kind of wacky right now, so I'm posting this on LJ just to make sure people get the note.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.
Our email list is kind of wacky right now, so I'm posting this on LJ just to make sure people get the note.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.
Our email list is kind of wacky right now, so I'm posting this on LJ just to make sure people get the note.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.
We discussed at the IC that we're not really doing the big expansion thing right now, but we do have names from PPD of people who were interested. Having someplace to link to those with an email on our list is awesome, because it means we can put ourselves out there to exactly the degree we're comfortable. Means people can get to know us, without us having to disclose anything important until we're sure they aren't a psycho.
The board I created is at http://thaliaclan.yuku.com/, and if you want to post there, you can log in with all manner of things. I believe you can even 'port your login over from Facebook, but that is probably needlessly complicated and I've never cared enough to figure out how. Easiest way to get yourself started is to go to http://www.yuku.com/ and make a profile/account/login. It's a big board network, so if something you really want to be called is taken for whatever reason, I can make things happen so that you can have the screenname you want.
Once you have an account and post, you'll be given access to a private section of the board that only Thalians will be given access to. That'll give us our little private sandbox just in case somebody actually is a psycho, while leaving a board open for people to hang out and whatever.
Anyway. Lemme know if there are problems.