This isn't an excuse so much as a milestone, a marker...
I haven't been on SG since the beginning of the summer, and this includes oogling. At some point it felt like an unsurmountable task so I just gave up. You see, I've never quite gotten into the habit of viewing the photostream as a kind of radio, one in which you are best served by dipping in from time to time and admiring the waves while they pass by, round and full and with little perky bits on to....
No, I tended to get quite friustrated when I missed a day. I was damned if I'd let even a single set go by. And that was just too stressful.
So I'm going to have to let go, I guess. Learn to not get upset if I miss a few days, best effort basis and nothing more. Maybe even learn how to troll through the archives or find/code some 'random-set-a-day' feature.
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The other reason why I haven't really been on SG is that my social circle in the summer was quite different and that somwhat carried into the Fall. Much of the reason why I'm here is because there was a counterculture I felt lacking in my life, there was something symbolized in dreadlocks and tattoos and coloured hair and sexual starkness that I wasn't finding in either my Computer Science faculty or my friends from residence.
But then one of my friends pushed me into GLOW, our university and city's GBLT/QQ2/WTF community. I went to their discussion groups and made friends. I made friends through common geekiness, snarkiness, dissatisfaction with the mainstream, a subtle and impotent desire to destroy the things we felt hurt by, things like that.
Beyond that, I had suddenly found myself on the artier side of the campus, since those pusihing for sexuality awareness are also likely to be pushing for other left-wingerly things. I'm not exactly one to care, but it was nice to just meet and encounter people who do. It also meant that I was chilling, during leisure time, with people of the arts, something I didn't really do outside of my electives.
And finally, beyond that, I had the opportunity to hang out with people who, in mind and body, could be SuicideGirls in their own rights ... embody enough of the sentiments that I find extremely attractive about this place in mind and body, extremely worrysome (from a friend point of view) and extremely indescribable from my standpoint as a cautious straight uncolourful male-identified dork.
But even after idly browsing one set on a lark, this site makes me smile again. So let's see if I can keep it up.
I haven't been on SG since the beginning of the summer, and this includes oogling. At some point it felt like an unsurmountable task so I just gave up. You see, I've never quite gotten into the habit of viewing the photostream as a kind of radio, one in which you are best served by dipping in from time to time and admiring the waves while they pass by, round and full and with little perky bits on to....
No, I tended to get quite friustrated when I missed a day. I was damned if I'd let even a single set go by. And that was just too stressful.
So I'm going to have to let go, I guess. Learn to not get upset if I miss a few days, best effort basis and nothing more. Maybe even learn how to troll through the archives or find/code some 'random-set-a-day' feature.
--
The other reason why I haven't really been on SG is that my social circle in the summer was quite different and that somwhat carried into the Fall. Much of the reason why I'm here is because there was a counterculture I felt lacking in my life, there was something symbolized in dreadlocks and tattoos and coloured hair and sexual starkness that I wasn't finding in either my Computer Science faculty or my friends from residence.
But then one of my friends pushed me into GLOW, our university and city's GBLT/QQ2/WTF community. I went to their discussion groups and made friends. I made friends through common geekiness, snarkiness, dissatisfaction with the mainstream, a subtle and impotent desire to destroy the things we felt hurt by, things like that.
Beyond that, I had suddenly found myself on the artier side of the campus, since those pusihing for sexuality awareness are also likely to be pushing for other left-wingerly things. I'm not exactly one to care, but it was nice to just meet and encounter people who do. It also meant that I was chilling, during leisure time, with people of the arts, something I didn't really do outside of my electives.
And finally, beyond that, I had the opportunity to hang out with people who, in mind and body, could be SuicideGirls in their own rights ... embody enough of the sentiments that I find extremely attractive about this place in mind and body, extremely worrysome (from a friend point of view) and extremely indescribable from my standpoint as a cautious straight uncolourful male-identified dork.
But even after idly browsing one set on a lark, this site makes me smile again. So let's see if I can keep it up.