LJ Idol week 30 (6/6): vacation

It's an understatement to say that I was a very imaginative child. I blame it on my mom, who encouraged me to go fight thorn witches in the backyard and dine on lilac sandwiches as a reward. Lilac sandwiches consisted of a sprig of flowers slapped between two fat green leaves, and were best consumed with "tea" (i.e. ( Read more... )

LJ Idol week 30 (5/6): scared money never wins

I don't gamble. With anything. Ever.

I'm an adrenaline junkie, sure, but not a true risk taker. When I want adrenaline, I chase it in a calculated and well thought out manner. For some people that might kill the high, but for me, it's the only way I can do it. I refuse to leave that much to chance. Lady ( Read more... )

LJ Idol week 30 (4/6): cesspool

Urban Dictionary has a fantastic definition for the cesspool of humanity: "the comments on almost any YouTube video".

I've met too many people who think the internet is fake. Not in the sense that it doesn't exist, but in the "What you say on the internet doesn't matter [because it's not face to face]" sort of way.

O_o

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LJ Idol week 30 (3/6): appropriation

As a sociologist, I'm constantly discussing cultural appropriation with my students, especially in light of feather earrings, moccasins, and "gypsy" skirts. I want my students to think more deeply about the historical background of these fashion trends, what these items might have meant to the cultures they came ( Read more... )

LJ Idol week 30 (2/6): leviathan

There's a leviathan in my living room.

No, I am not hosting a couch-surfing cross-country-traveling cowboy-hat-wearing backpacking-toting sea monster. I'm talking about my first knitting project. The Big One. My mom's now-belated Christmas present.

So I'm running about six months behind. My mother did get to open it on ( Read more... )

LJ idol week 30 (1/6): gobsmacked

Shortly before my 21st birthday I shaved my head. This wouldn't have been particularly notable except for the facts that I: a) am a girl, and b) decided to do it on a whim.

You might have heard of a pop culture phenomenon called Rocky Horror, affectionately known as Rocky. Since the last 1970s, this midnight ( Read more... )

It's happened: we've been split back into tribes, at least for this week. There were four prompts and I managed to pick the most popular ("disappear"), which means I'm in the biggest tribe. Go me(?)

Tribe Appropriation

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LJ idol week 29: disappear

Like every little kid, I dreamed of being invisible. Other kids wanted to be invisible to steal cookies or stay up past their bedtime. But I wanted to be invisible so I could sneak out of the house to explore what a desert night was like without my parents, or so I could live in the natural history museum to hang out with ( Read more... )

LJ idol week 28: walking on eggshells

( rape trigger warning )

An extra-speedy poll this week, b/c this contest is meant to kill all of us. (Kidding. Kind of.) At least we don't have to anticipate/bite our nails/freak out for too long. This week, I particularly loved:

alycewilson
frecklestars
jacq22
kickthehobbit
milk_and_glass
notodette
porn_this_way

I'd be much obliged if you'd go vote for me and other talented writers you enjoyed here, by tomorrow (yikes!) the 16th at 8 p.m. EST. Now I think ( Read more... )