Dear Facebook...

Who better than Mark Morford to write about how freakishly !@#$% Facebook is when it comes to keeping ties with folks.

BEST BIT:
"From an energy perspective, Facebook is a goddamn cord-makin' wonderland, a sort of psychic Grand Central, the place where psychic energy goes to jack itself back into the mainframe. It's tens of millions of people peeking and poking and peering into the lives of those they know, those they want to know, those they like or love or hate or begrudge or secretly want to peel the pants from and lick like a popsicle in summer."

I concur, Mark. Totes.

dale don dale

social work prom 2009 quotes and/or people's reactions of me that night:

before leaving the house
brandon sees my outfit and says: you look like a super mario brother

dinner pre-prom
moi: i'm gonna come back next year for prom! it's so much fun!
karlita: what?! like a super senior in high school?!

@ 9.20 p.m.
nikki: omg is rafayna drunk already?
moi: no she always walks into a room by dancing

days after prom...
moi: hey did you go to prom?
colleague: no but i heard and saw that you did!

pellish: the last time i saw you at prom you were speaking in tongues!
niki: [laughs] yeah you were

more to come...

cuz i'm tired!

panda: i think my eyes have gotten smaller
karla: um i think you're azn
panda: its cuz i'm tired!

karla: livi i would like to do this photo collage with your hair styles across the years. i think it would be fun.
moi: you're an ass

karla: i want to take this fb quiz "which literary period are you?"!
moi: you a nerd!
karla: i'm the victorian period!

ridiculous much?

moi: yeah he's hapa right?
panda: yeah he's azn and vietnamese

panda: i need to be surrounded by positive people
karlita: good! go find one!

moi to helz: you look like you should be in the hope count.

my post on lucy's fb wall: you must produce a lot of milk
uncontrollable laughter from panda for the next 5 minutes

april belongs to karlita

becky: i'm really disorganized, i need to clean my room.
karla: how much will pay me?
becky: i can take you out to dinner.
karla: its gonna cost more than just a few dinners

moi: i found these glasses at central park with my prescription!
karla: oh good they're not yours. i wasn't going to comment on how ridiculous they look if they were.

pbear: where are we going for dinner before prom?
karla: nothing that will make me smell.
pbear: so that eliminates all azn food

in the process of de-mutawajiihin

mutawajjihin (Arabic) masking oneself

relating to the life-long, challenging, easy, and sometimes painful journey of coming out.

lunch meetings are coming to an end...

spring epiphany?

"I just realized I am an organic eating, hybrid driving, hillary supporting, queer chicnao immigrant. Pigeon holed much?...and I listen to npr."
-luisito's text

he just needs to move to the bay area/seattle/nyc and the pigeon hole will be complete.

april is full of 'em!

after 20 minutes of talking to gary, an older, retired gay man turns to me and says, "oh! i didnt notice you were there!"

while attending a college workshop @ TC for high school raza karlita sends me this text:
"r u getting good info livi for when you u go to college?"

text message from karlita on april 2, 2009:
"U r ridiculous!"

karlita's fb comment on a photo with me and karla where im wearing a gorrito on nov 4 2008:
"livi u r ridiculous!"

and so begins april

"i don't talk to her; I ignore her"

"i can't wait to start policy so I can start fighting in class"

gay friend: who's gay in our cohort?
trucha: you are! did you forget?!

"she probably decomposts at home"

PRICELESS beginning to april 2009