Just Embrace It

Today, my dad, my sister and I were talking about people having to choose between doing what they want to with their lives and living up to society's standards. I think a lot of people feel that they can't be who they are, or have the kind of life they want, because other people would look down on them. My thought on the whole thing is this; be who you are, and embrace it. If you don't want to sell your soul to some evil corporation just so you can make a lot of money, then don't. Please don't, but also don't be ashamed that you don't have as much money as your friends who did sell their souls. If you feel like you are less than them because you don't make as much money, they will also think of you as less than them. However, if you are proud of your choice and you accept the fact that you may have to live a more modest life because of it, they can't look down on you. I'm fairly certain this system works in almost any situation. For the most part, people are assholes. They can tell when you're ashamed of something, and they will take advantage of that. As long as you are unashamed, you can do damn near anything you want and they can't say anything to you. I know this from personal experience. Mayhap I will go into greater detail about how I know at a later date.

.......is basically what I'm saying

What Are You Complaining about?

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, my dad and I have started watching Farscape. The basic idea of the show is that an astronaut gets sucked into a wormhole and ends up lost somewhere in the universe with no idea where he is in relation to Earth. He spends a large portion of his time just trying to figure out how to get back home. This concept seems to be a really common theme in the Sci/Fi and Fantasy genres. It seems like someone is always getting lost in some amazing place and then moping and whining about how much they want to go home. Just once I would like to see someone get lost in some distant and magical place and be like "Fuck yeah! I'm staying here! This is so much better than where I come from!" because that's what I would say, if I were in that situation.

Quit you're bitching Crichton! Damn! 

Personas

We all have different personas that we use in different areas of our lives, yeah? Well, I guess I got a little too comfortable dividing myself into different parts, because I recently noticed that I do the same thing in my online life. I find that my Facebook has become basically like my normal public persona. I don't really say much. Occasionally I make a polite comment about something someone else has said or done, and every once in a while I share something I think is clever or amusing. This blog is more like a glimpse inside my mind. Here, I say all of the things I'm thinking while I'm making polite conversation, nodding and smiling, or just trying to keep my mouth shut. Pinterest is where I keep all of the things that seem to speak to my very soul. If you look at my boards you will find all of the things that I love for reasons I can't explain, and things that express my thoughts and feelings more honestly than I can ever convince myself to. The one aspect of myself that manages to transcend the boundaries of my different online networks is the same as it is in real life. I do somehow work animal rights into every situation in my life, at least from time to time.

The two sides of Pinterest. 

Over-Identifying

In every book/movie/TV show that I get into, I invariably find at least one character that makes me think "Holy shit! He/she is just like me!" Well, my dad and I just started watching Farscape and I'm telling you, I am Aeryn Sun. She hates showing emotion, she doesn't know how to interact with other people, she has no idea what to do with her life or where she belongs, she absolutely does not do the girly thing, and she's pissed off all the time. Plus, she's really good at carrying heavy shit.

Seriously, we're the same person. 

(Mis)Adventures in Online Dating

Today I decided, once again, to try VeggieConnection. In case you didn't guess, it's a dating site geared toward vegetarians and vegans. Sounds like a great idea, yeah? Not really. I first signed up in 2009 and since then I have tried it for anywhere from a day to upwards of a month, gotten fed up with it, hidden my account and sworn never to return, maybe four or five times. In the short expanse of time that I have actually used my account, I have managed to have some remarkably unfortunate experiences. First, I spent several days talking to this guy from California who ended up flipping out on me because we were IMing and I took too long to respond, so he accused me of talking to another guy while I was talking to him. To be fair, I was talking to someone else at the same time, but it was a friend. Also, it was none of his fucking business one way or the other. Then, there was a guy from Texas who gave up on me after I didn't want to fly there and stay with him after only knowing each other for a few days. The worst one though, I think, was the guy I emailed back and forth multiple times a day for several weeks. We seemed to have a lot in common, and I really liked him. He eventually came to see me, as he was passing through to visit a friend. We had the worlds most awkward double-date with my sister and her boyfriend, he slept in my bed and I slept on the couch, we had some polite conversation before he left the next morning, then I never heard from him again. Anyway, today, I'm scrolling through the profiles and what do I see? A vegan from....get this....Lawrence Kansas! It has to be a sign of some sort, right? So I click on his profile and it has almost no information on it. Then I happen to notice that, in the section where you can check the boxes for the different ethnicities you are interested in, he has checked all of them except "African decent/Black". Guess what VeggieConnection, if I wanted to meet racist assholes I could do that right here in good old Mannington WV. Seriously, why does that section even exist? What possible reason can someone have for not wanting to date a particular race than that he or she is a racist asshole?

I Can Kill You with My B..........anana

My sister, Caty, came over and took some new pictures for me today. Now, normally, I completely hate any and all pictures of myself, but she got some really great ones. She took some "normal" ones for Facebook, Pinterest, etc and I decided to go ahead and try for the River Tam pose for this blog. My Dad actually found one deadly (looking) blade for me and I decided to use a banana in place of the other one. I thought that way I would cover both parts of "volatile vegan" in one shot ( I also, stuck an apple on the end of the machete, just to be sure I got the point across. Plus it works with the River theme). So what do you guys think?

Caty even managed to edit the background and the coloring to make it look more like the original, because she is hahshum*. If anyone wants to see the other pictures, by all means, check them out on Facebook. 

*hahshum=awesome. Don't ask me why. I mean you can if you want, but you will lose interest before the end of the explanation. 

Worth 1000 Words

My sister has been doing photography lately. She has some really great stuff, you should check her out. Anyway, soon (maybe sometime this weekend) I am going to get her to take some new pictures for me. You see, I use the same profile picture for everything and it's around two years old. So I'm thinking I will do a halfway normal looking one for Facebook, but I want something ridiculous, and nerdy, and over-the-top for this blog. I'm considering going with the River Tam pose. Of course, it won't be nearly as cool without the deadly blades.

Any suggestions?