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February 2012
Love your blog! Did you design the theme yourself? Anyway I just wanted to say, as a gay student at the mostly pseudo-christian conservative Auburn University, I feel your pain, but hold strong! What keeps me going is knowing that once I graduate I can move wherever the hell I want.
Awwh, thanks! I love your blog, too! I got a really basic theme from the theme garden that had a lot of ways to customize so yes and no. Thank you for your kind sentiments and same to you! My school is much smaller than Auburn and it’s probably just as conservative if not more so on some points so we do share similar plights. I actually have a couple of really close friends who go to Auburn! And you’re totally right. I’m grateful that my major, Visual Communication, is so broad that I could work in a lot of different industries.
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Conversation with flippancy, and Ryder.
This conversation took place outside of Starbucks on the 26 of February, 2012. Ryder is one of my new friends; the one word that comes to mind when I think of him is ‘fresh’. He is bold, intentional, and fun, and reminds me a lot of a 64 year old divorcee who smokes cigarettes in bed and drinks whiskey, straight.
more flattering words have never been spoken to me. thanks so much lindsay for interviewing me. you’re lovely and i am honored to be interviewed by you.
also, i sound super gay in this… to the point where its a little obnoxious. i’m sorry. listen to my words, not the sound of them. the words are important.
I am already a fan.. love your blog! Oh, and thanks for the follow! :)
Thanks and no problem!
2 things: 1. I LOVE your blog. It's pretty :) 2. I'm a high school student looking at colleges and I looked at Berry recently. Could you tell me a little about it? I'm really into music industry studies, do you know if it has that kind of major? Thanks :)
aww, thanks. berry is pretty great. it can be a big adjustment for basically everyone who comes here. either you love it or you hate it. i started out hating it, but i’ve found my place and i’ve come to love it. as far as music majors go, berry isn’t the best place for music majors. i don’t think it has anything related to music industry. music majors generally have to do with performance or classical stuff. also, berry can be really boring and you have to strive to have that classic, typical college experience.
“I was rockin daft punk for years before I heard this shit.”
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Ryder (via youarethere)
yeah, i said this… :D
it's wearing down.
being gay at berry college is hard.
all the guessing games, all the false hopes, all the interest i thought was expressed in me beyond being friends or ‘bros’…
it’s tiring.
i’m not itching for a boyfriend. i used to want one more than life itself, but that was just a phase and i’m really glad that i’m out of it.
i’m all-in-all happy on my own. yay, right?
sure.
and while i’m single, that doesn’t mean i can’t passively mingle, right?
sure.
oh wait, i go to berry college. home of the loosely affiliated conservatives and closet cases.
okay, that’s not entirely true. but i cannot tell you how many times i’ve gotten close to a guy who is genuinely interested in me as a person and a good friend, only to realize their interest was purely plutonic.
then there’s the paralyzing crushes i never act on… i don’t act on them because the crush is nice and comfortable and if i don’t know them, i never get hurt when they turn out to be very straight like literally every other guy on this campus. this type of interaction (or lack therein) occurs much more often than the former.
i digress.
my problem is that i invest too much into passively ‘mingling’ and then i get hurt.
here i thought i’ve learned from my past mistakes.
guess not.
How is life going?
Great. So, who exactly are you and why do I love your blog so much?
boy scout boy.
sigh. boy scout boy is this guy i’ve seen a bunch around campus but mainly in dining hall. i guess we just have similar eating schedules (oh hey how convenient).
ugh, he looks so heavenly. and he always wears green. it’s the cutest thing.
we had our first interaction today.
and it was amazing.
GONE are the days of me watching sort of creepily from afar in dining hall.
today, we crossed paths during a time of heavy traffic in dining hall and he could have easily missed me.
but no, in my highly dramatized mind, our eyes met out of FATE.
and then?
we smiled at each other.
and it was good.
and it made my day.
it’s the simple things, tumblr.
Hey! Thanks for the follow your blog is awesome!
No problem, and thanks!
