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  • And now, an honest report on what god did. He looked down on his filthy sewage called "earth," and saw the slimeball that was trump leading the small-minded, the bigoted, the earnestly ignorant like a pied piper down a drain of utter filth and total corruption. And for this reason, he gave humans the incentive to start using nuclear bombs to wipe our filth off the face of the planet completely for eternity.

  • As I said previously there's absolutely no way anyone could force me to live a lie or pretend I'm not gay, even under threat of execution. I'd SO much rather be dead that live in a world where I have to be something I am not and live a baldfaced lie. It's such a damn shame that Russia is such a filthy country full of small-minded bigoted assholes, when their most famous composers and writers were all gay. To spit on their own culture and their own wealth of contributions to the world -really a god damn fucking shame.

  • I was in Beijing and travelled west across China and over two weeks' time, and there was no city where the population wasn't totally overcrowded at every turn. Visiting the Great Wall was like being in Walmart here on Black Friday - no elbow room at all. And in most public spaces we were shoulder to shoulder with other people all the time. I decrease in their enormous population could only be for the better in the long run.

  • They could threaten me with public execution and there is no way at all that I'd ever apologize for being gay. It isn't anything that requires an apology and nobody has any right to ask for one. Given that most of Russia's most prolific writers and composers were gay, it's fucking terrible that Russia is still so mired in small-minded bigotry and hate for their own culture.

  • The most unexplainable thing was, in the house I grew up in there was closet in the basement that had a bad vibe about it. It was cramped and sort of angled strangely, and it felt weird in there - cold and unpleasant somehow. I had bad dreams about it.

    But it was where my mom kept putting our old clothes and toys. One day after school I went downstairs to get one of my toys from the closet, quickly because I didn't like being in there.

    I grabbed the thing and shut the door tightly. Well as I was walking upstairs I heard a "click." I looked into the room, the closet door was opening by itself only very slowly and deliberately, not like it was swinging open. There was no way it could have unlocked but, it did, and it was opening.

    Just was a very weird feeling, I dropped my toy and I think I broke it as I ran up the stairs!

  • Italian would be nice but chinese might be more practical. I had to take five quarters of a foreign language in college, and someone suggested Farsi (Persian) saying it would be easy because it's just learning a new alphabet. HA. It was hard as hell, the grammar rules never made sense to me, but I stuck it out for five quarters but barely remember any of it.

  • Well it was the lady who owned the B & B who made it, it was almost 10 years ago I doubt she'd remember but I have found a few recipes for it online. I'm just working up the courage to try it because I'm hard on myself when my cooking isn't as good as other people's.

  • Yes it's normal to feel lost - and you'll go through it often. We change a lot over the course of our lives and that feeling of unsure-edness is one of the hallmarks of being alive.

    Sounds like you're making progress on important milestones so you can feel good about those things. It may take some distance to see exactly how much you've really accomplished and to appreciate how you did it even while feeling kind of lost or at sea.

    Only thing I'd advise is, lay off the heavy drinking if you can. Being wasted isn't a cure for the anxiety of living. And it takes more from you than it gives you, including screwing with your "feel good" chemicals over time. I wish you luck with it all!

  • Yes it's normal to feel lost - and you'll go through it often. We change a lot over the course of our lives and that feeling of unsure-edness is one of the hallmarks of being alive.

    Sounds like you're making progress on important milestones so you can feel good about those things. It may take some distance to see exactly how much you've really accomplished and to appreciate how you did it even while feeling kind of lost or at sea.

    Only thing I'd advise is, lay off the heavy drinking if you can. Being wasted isn't a cure for the anxiety of living. And it takes more from you than it gives you, including screwing with your "feel good" chemicals over time. I wish you luck with it all!

  • It's unusual for us in Salt lake NOT be having extreme cold right now in January - it's unusually warm this year. Mid-40s, rain but not snow. Some years we've been as low as minus 6 or minus 8 in January.

    The Sundance Film Festival is going on in Park City, Utah, this weekend so I wonder how they are faring up there in the canyon. It's warmer here in the valley, but there's lot of great fluffy new snow up there for skiers to enjoy. This has been an odd winter, because we didn't get ANY snow in December to speak of.

  • I usually feel very happy once I get up (not depressed or anxious) but the anxiety and stress of the day weigh me down to about the thickness of a postage stamp by the end of the day.

    So for me, it's just the decompression time at the end of the day when i can sit back, watch stupid old-time horror or sci fiction movies, and eat a donut with some diet coke.

    Thanks god for diet coke, video games, donuts, Forbidden Planet, youtube, and godzilla.

  • Thomas Wolfe wrote "You can't go home again." I remember going back to my parents house after moving out and I couldn't believe how small everything looked - them included. And when I go back to the wonderful area that I grew up in - which was fairly rural at the time - there was nothing there but fields, streams, and mountain views and now it's all developed into condos and apartments, no wild areas left at all, and lots of highway.

    SIGH. The world I once knew is gone. I had a pretty idyllic childhood so i can't complain, at least I had it once. But yeah it's so different to go back and realize nothing is the way it was or the way you thought it was going to be.

  • Well I'm KIND of involved. I have volunteered at our local aviary (a lot of hard work and little else) and also at charity events like poker nights to raise money. I was more involved in California where it seemed like there were more opportunities than here in utah.