Somehow, the very weekend after the break up, my city was descended upon by three fantastic shows all out of nowhere, as if sent expressly to distract me from thinking too much.
Managed To Go To Three Large Events Containing A Great Deal Of Other People Whose Hearts Probably Didn’t Hurt As Bad as Mine, Or Maybe They Did, I Don’t Know (Lara Jane Grace via Josh Sisk for Rolling Stone, The Prancing Elites via Prancing Elites on Facebook, Andrea Gibson via Nebraska Writers on ) 9. Wow I just realized that “ex” is a new word to get used to typing.
I learned a lot of police code though! And I only listened to my ex’s city for about a minute, I promise. That was until I remembered that “busy” was bad and then I went back to my own boring city. I listened with interest to LAPD Citywide Dispatch for a while because it was so busy. Sat in my car listening to a police scanner app for an hour for no particular reason I’m telling you this primarily as self-motivation to stop. Held lengthy conversations with my pillow at night “I want to shave my head and lie in bed all day long,” is the hardest Tegan and Sara lyric not to post.Ĥ. Top of the cons list: Everyone would ask, “Did you finally do it because of the break up?” Top of the pros list: I talk out loud so much about this already that it would feel relieving to finally do it and probably would make things less annoying for the people who have to hear my monthly loud pondering. Thought really seriously about shaving my head Before I was even dating a person for that matter. Which is really hard to do because I’ve had the Tegan and Sara lyrics I would post to Twitter after a break up picked out before Twitter was even a thing. Resisted the urge to post Tegan and Sara lyrics to my Twitter
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