Here, the Years [13 Dec 2009|05:26pm] xetes "Lately I just stare at the thick cloud cover in disbelief." So goes my friend's Facebook userinfo re: living in Portland. He's from Santa Cruz. I'm from Orange County. We've both been here an awful lot longer than we intended. I wonder if the length of Oregon winters is the reason so many of us transplants frequently find ourselves living here for years and years despite never having intended to and perhaps always wanting to leave. Even those of us from pretty perpetually warm climates like Southern California are used to some sort of indicative season change - sure, people will argue there's only one season in California, and it's summer, or maybe spring - but there are subtle but marked enough changes that differentiate fall from winter from spring from summer. Here, in Portland, fall and winter and spring melt into one long gray gloom, not rainy so much as interminably drizzly, the sun coming out occasionally but fitted with such frigid temperature as to keep so many indoors and unaware or unwanting of the rare feeling of sunlit goodness on their skin. But, uh, enough of that. For newcomers to the pacific northwest, the passage of time seems immeasurable. With three whole seasons being essentially the same, and our bodies used to four, alternating periods of warm and less warm and cold and less cold and warm and so on, the body's ability to measure years by alternating temperatures or absorption of sunshine falters. A year here has two seasons, so two years feels like 12 months. Two-twelve months is so much: a newborn baby entering their wall-gnawing terrible twos, a master's degree earned, a second language learned. But here we don't have to do all that - here people operate on a slower schedule - and here time idly flies by, lumbering along like a tortoise while we little hares sleep and sleep and sleep. post comment

How Long Have You Been a Heterosexual? (It’s nothing to be ashamed of!) [10 Dec 2009|01:36pm] xetes What caused your heterosexuality? How and when did you first decide you were a heterosexual? Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of? Does your heterosexuality stem from a neurotic fear of others of your own sex? Heterosexuals usually have histories of failed gay relationships. Do you think you may have turned to heterosexuality out of fear of rejection? If you've never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn't prefer that? Isn't it possible that all you need is a good gay lover? To whom have you disclosed your heterosexuality? Why do you insist on making a public spectacle of your heterosexuality? If you nurture children, would you want them to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they will face? Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into heterosexual behavior? Why are heterosexuals so promiscuous? Heterosexuals are noted for assigning themselves and each other to narrow, restrictive, stereotyped sex roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role-playing? Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex? Despite all the support that marriage receives from society, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships amongst heterosexuals? The great majority of child molesters are heterosexual. Do you really consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers? Considering the menace of over-population, how could the human race survive if everyone was heterosexual? How can you enjoy a fully satisfying sexual experience or deep emotional rapport with a person of the opposite sex when the obvious physical, biological, and temperamental differences between you are so vast? How can a man understand what pleases a woman sexually or vice-versa? Considering how often heterosexuality is equated with sin in the Bible why do you choose to be heterosexual? There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed with which you might be able to change if you really want to change. Have you considered trying aversion therapy? Why do you make a point of attributing heterosexuality to famous people? Is it to justify your own heterosexuality? *snerk* 4 comments|post comment

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