Friend Pimpage

[lierdumoa]

So recently I got back into contact with my best friend from eighth grade. We lost contact in high school after we both lost each other's phone numbers. I wondered what had happened to her, so a week or so ago I spent about half an hour fiddling with google. I found her livejournal -- lelenevity. How cool is that? Very cool, considering she's probably the most open minded friend I ever had -- which means that she's one of the very few people I have known in real life that I wouldn't be afraid of reading my livejournal.

*very evil grin*

We went to this Catholic elementary school together. We went to different high schools (for the Europeans on my friends list with different school systems, high school lasts 4 years and you usually graduate at 18). I continued on in Catholic high school, while she attended public. Apparently she started an LGBT club at her high school (am I getting this info right?). If so, then -- wow. And to think, I was so lazy in high school.

My high school, I can't imagine anyone starting such a club, mainly because I can't imagine anyone actually admitting to be gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or questioning -- let alone transgender. I had fellow students who believed without a doubt that all gay people were going straight to hell. (This is not a Catholic, belief, by the way -- but it is present in some versions of Protestantism. Not everyone who attends Catholic school is Catholic.) It was the worst possible environment for anyone to come out in.

School was an interesting experience for me. I have never been Catholic. I have never believed in any religion of any kind. Sometimes I think that there might be a higher power, but I don't think about it much. I don't do worship. The only reason I attended the schools I did was because the local public schools were badly funded and didn't teach worth crap. I didn't like my elementary school for various reasons. I liked High School better because of the friends I made. However, High school was slightly scarier in some aspects than elementary school ever was.

For example, when I was a Senior, I spent an hour in the library typing up a paper. During this hour, the Junior morality class was watching a video on abstention (everyone was required to take morality in their Junior year -- utter bullshit, I tell you -- it was more like remedial psychology/catechism). The video? It was enough to make me physically ill. They tried to make it "cool," first off, by putting in video clips from The Matrix that had no bearing on the subject matter. I sat there thinking "What the fuck do you think you're doing to my movie!" They actually said stupid shit like "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."

Dude: if God didn't want men to sodomize eachother, he shouldn't have put erogenous zones in their assholes. Okay, yeah, I know -- preaching to the choir, here.

I remember walking out of the library thinking "This is not my place. I do not belong here."

And now I'm attending a very, very liberal college. So it all works out, in the end.





Oh, and daylight_shadow? amariel? You both have permission to greviously injure me if I don't have chapter 5 [BW] in to you by 7am tomorrow.

Comments

[lelenevity.livejournal.com]

LOL that was an interesting progression from our relationship to hellish Catholic schooling to homoeroticism. Nice. I love you. Um, yeah, I started the Gay-Straight Alliance at Clovis High, only named like that to mirror the other, like, 300 GSA's all over California. If I had it my way (and I guess I technically did), I would've called it something else. And actually, there was a girl from SJM who would come to GSA Network meetings (digression: since there are a lot of GSA's around CA, a woman started the state-wide Network, and it's divided into three regions -- Northern, Central, and Southern -- and we each hold monthly meetings so members from GSA's in the same area can meet each other, bond, share ideas, etc.) because she wanted to start one. Her name was Elizabeth, I think, and she performs at drag shows *nods* (not in drag though). She seems cool.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Hmm... can't remember any Elizabeths.

And about the interesting progression thing. I should warn you that homoeroticism comes up a lot in my livejournal. Just so you know. I'm a tad obsessed. And by "a tad" I mean "really, really."

You see, the whole reason I have a livejournal is because I started reading and writing gay fanfiction and some people I met on the internet to proofread my fanfiction offered me invite codes. So most of what I talk about in this journal revolves around gay fanfiction.

Well, I also read and write straight fanfiction, but not as frequently.

And sometimes I'll actually talk about my life. Not as often as you'd think, but that's because I don't actually know any of the people on my friends list in real life (except for evenstarjuliet, who is my best friend at MIT) and I met most of my friends list either directly or indirectly though fanfiction.

You see, my livejournal basically embodies my internet identity, which I've done my best to completely separate from my actual identity. In it, I discuss my interests which aren't generally appropriate for public consumption.

And homoeroticism would be one of those interests.

You have been warned.

[lelenevity.livejournal.com]

hey it's cool. i even checked out your website (which, i've gathered, is also completely dedicated to your writings). i didn't read any of it yet, but i might ;)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Ah yes -- my website. That hasn't been updated for about eight months. All of my new (and better) writing is in the memories section of my livejournal.



And just so you know? I did not friend you so that I could drag you into my obsession. My livejournal is pretty much all about the fanfiction, but when we get a chance to talk on AIM you'll see that I'm perfectly capable of carrying on conversations without bringing up that particular subject.



In other news -- I just arrived home a few hours ago. Carpet! HBO! My bed! And the fridges actually have food in them! I'm in a very good place right now.

;o)