#8: Interesting Facts

Find out an interesting fact about a store clerk. I'm not very good at small chit chat. I don't find it enjoyable and I never quite know what to say. My first attempt I opened my mouth to say something then stopped exhausted by the process. However, last night I had a five minute conversation with the store clerk as she price checked a few items for me. I found out the store is the tester store for a new computer system even though there was nothing wrong with the old system. She lives with a very masculine male room-mate who loves fruity/floral scented candles. He is straight, is very tidy, and likes to vacuum daily. She loves candles but finds them to be too expensive.

*originally written Dec 2013

Dawson's Creek

This month's article on the geek girls website is about Dawson's Creek.

"Rewatching the pilot episode, I realized how much has changed. This show aired before cell phones and DVDs were ubiquitous, before Facebook was invented, before we became so digitally connected. It felt quaint that Dawson and Pacey work at a video rental store that rents VHS tapes. It’s even funnier to remember that Dawson’s Creek was viewed as the scandalous new teen show during its original airing…" More

#7: Take a bus to the end of the line

     I struggled with this task. I grew up in and still live in a car city. And when I say that, I mean there is practically no public transportation to take. At my parent's house the bus only goes to most of the stops once per day. A busy stop is three times per day. To get to the bus stop I must drive there and park my car.

     To fulfill this task, I adjusted it to mean a new/unusual form of transportation that I wouldn't normally take aka a bike carriage. It was fun and different and not too expensive. (And I was able to get to and from where I was going without getting stuck).

Asexuality Awareness Week

     Last week was Asexuality Awareness Week (Oct 26-Nov 1) so I wanted to talk about it.

     What is asexuality? It is when a person does NOT experience sexual attraction.

     Discussing asexuality brings up many different types of attraction from romantic to sexual to emotional to aesthetic to sensual. They are all different and they do not all have to line up. For instance, a person can be romantically attracted to the opposite gender and sexually attracted to the same gender and that's okay. Hank Green made an amazing video discussing sexuality, posted below.

     You can experience all of these attractions at once, making it difficult to discern at times. For a more comprehensive list of definitions check out anagnori's tumblr.
Romantic Attraction is when someone has a crush on someone else and wants to be in a relationship with that person.
Sexual Attraction is when someone wants to have sex with someone else.
Sensual Attraction can be platonic and it's about nonsexual physical intimacy so hand holding and cuddling.
Emotional Attraction is when someone makes and emotional connection with someone else.
Aesthetic Attraction is when you find someone else pleasing to look at, like a painting.

     All of this exists on a spectrum and is fluid. You can change whatever label you identify with at anytime or choose not to identify with a label at all. The most important thing is that YOU decide how you label yourself, no one else. Ashley Mardell made a great video discussing sexuality as a spectrum, listed below.

     It can be really complicated and confusing but there are plenty of resources out there to help. Tumblr is a great place to learn more by searching the ace, asexual, and asexuality tags. Many people have made great videos also discussing this topic. A new collab channel just started called AceSpace.