Notes, gay and drabbles.

[brigdh]

Dear Self,

Please do not go to bed at 3am when you have a midterm at 9am.

Love,
Brigdh

P.S. When you have a midterm at 9am, do not start studying for it at 12:30am.


*cough* I win the procrastination award, go me! *cough*

Anyway, while I procrastinate some more before my next class, I'd like to recount a story. On Tuesday night, I was in a Guess the Straight Person panel. They're held by my University to promote diversity and acceptance and whatever; all freshmen are required to go to three such things. The idea is that a group of about 4 to 8 people- bi, gay, lesbian, straight, transgender, and anything else- get up in front of a bunch of freshmen and answer questions, and then the audience guesses which person is the straight one. No gimmie questions like 'Do you have sex with men?' allowed, so instead you get a lot of things like, 'How many shoes do you own?' and 'What's your ideal date?'

It's fun. I like trying to fool the freshmen. Which didn't work so well, since I only got 8 votes out of about 50 for being straight. The funny part of this story is the end, when we were supposed to reveal the straight person.

Host: Will the real straight person please stand up?
Panel: *looks at each other*
Lauren: Um, Brigdh?
Me: Wha?
Lauren: I thought you were straight?
Me: I'm not straight!
Lauren: Well, I'm not straight!
Rest of Panel: We're not straight!
Crowd: *cracks up*

Ah, yes. Because our incompetence is pastede on yay. But it was a learning experience about prejudice! That we planned! Really!

And by the way, since I'm sure you're all just dying of curiosity, I'm gay.

I've got an idea for fuda_100's challenge. I'm all inspired. But I can't write it until I get one more plot point, and it's bugging me, hovering just beyond recognition, like when something's stuck on the tip of your tongue. It's almost there, I almost have it, but... not quite yet. Argh. So frustrating. It's my trauma of the day: this stupid unformed plot detail buzzing around in my head.

Did you know snopes.com has a livejournal feed? snopes_dot_com- I adore that site more than anything ever.

Comments

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

*Hugs you*

:-)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. *hugs back*

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

You forgot your straight person? Bwah! Discrimination, I say! Too funny.

I'm completely screwed on fuda_100, because I wanted to do Tatsumi to complete the set, but then threewalls went and broke my brain.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. We did. It was especially funny, because beforehand when we were all standing around talking, someone asked who the straight person was, but before anyone could answer, the host cut them off and said, "It'll be a surprise to us too!" So we could have prevented the whole thing. ^^;;

And eeee, I know! Wasn't hers wonderful? I really liked yours too, though. *glomps*

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. Heh. (is your name really Brigdh?)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, no. I just didn't feel like putting my real name up there. Family with internet access, you know. Although I guess it's not like my first name would really reveal anything...

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm the same way. Surprisingly, I'm not <a href="http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/08/08.htm:>a dippy blonde with big boobs.</a>

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! Wow. I didn't even know there was a TNMT comic.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Black-and-white, first issue was done with a $5000 loan from one of the co-creator's uncles. Then the cartoon and movies and suchlike. The comic is very different-- you can actually read the first one online at Ninjaturtles.com. (Http://www.ninjaturtles.com) Once a fangirl, always a fangirl!

I need to get a TMNT icon for here but I've never had one I liked enough.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

The fact that freshmen are required to go to those sort of things is very interesting. Makes me wish we could do something like that here. *ponders*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is pretty cool when you think about it. We're big on diversity, though- I think it's the natural consequence of being a *huge* university (second biggest in America, w00t) that naturally has big populations of foreign people, minority students, many religions, sexualities, whatever, that comes into constant contact with the homegrown redneck farm-children who are coming here because it's a state school.

But whatever the reason, I do like that the University makes so much effort for it.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I so wish we did something like that here. I'd totally sign up. *grins* If only because I would love to see the expressions on some people's faces when it became apparent that I'm not the straight one either.

I'm stalled on fuda_100 because I keep getting 14-year-old Watari and Tsuzuki grinning at me...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of fun. This was the first time I'd done it, but I'm definitely going to sign up again.

Hee, teen Tatari! Socute.