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"Darling, just start the chase
I'll let you win
But you must
Make the endeavour"

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"And you may be acquainted with the night
But I have seen the darkness in the day
And you must know it is a terrifying sight
Because you and I are living the same way"

After spending a day with my new coworkers' families - their significant others, parents, siblings, children - It made me happy for them, but.. lonely and depressed for myself.. I'm feeling.. sad, and sorta hopeless, about my future ( Read more... )

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I went to a gender identity and sexuality discussion last night at my synagogue, and a few thoughts came up, some of which led to my further inquiry.

• Rabbi broke down consent: Why do we need consent? We were all made **equally** in God's image- no one has authority over another's person.

• Is anonymous sex possible? To "know" someone in "the biblical ( Read more... )

This Too Shall Pass - OK Go

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Keep Breathing - Ingrid Michaelson

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Minor appearances by "Trout Heart Replica" - Amanda Palmer and "Naked" - Tracy Bonham

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You keep it in
I let it loose.

I don't remember holding her hands, but I'm sure I must have done it as a child. I remembered her fingernails, I always thought they were slender and elegant. Not like my stubby childish fingers, with their wide, angular features. I held her hand this time. Her right hand was just as I had remembered it, except clutched. I opened her fingers to put ( Read more... )

It is a miracle, after being locked out of my account for over a week, when I needed to be able to write here so badly... Somehow one of the MANY lost password reset e-mails I requested in the past days reached my mailbox. After sending in a support ticket with LJ, scouring FAQs on why LJs e-mails might not be received, trying to figure out where ( Read more... )

So.. Since an ex implied- well, more than implied- during a break up conversation that I'm basically autistic, it's been on my mind fairly frequently. Especially when I lament my issues connecting with people socially. In fact, I just recently was telling a new acquaintance about my relative ease in socializing with men rather than women, and how ( Read more... )