WTF, mate?

Boys are confusing. For my next birthday, I want a dictionary for translating boy behaviour. ( Examples: )

And all that was basically to get my thoughts in order. Didn't get anywhere, though...

In totally unrelated news, the Daniel Jackson slash_100 is going well, finally. It's nice to have lots of people tell me that I melted their brains in 350 words or made them cry in 500. Very gratifying, I must say. Now I just need to keep up with at least two fic of some type a week, and I'll be happy. Pft, who needs schoolwork, anyway?

Equally unrelated, and I blame this on the roommie, but I spent half an hour watching a show on MTV called "True Life", which follows three or four people who have some situation in common and tapes them dealing with real life. In my usual oddness, I went to look up the show online, since the episode was a thought-provoking one (*gasp*, I know), and before I knew it I was on the page with their casting call for future episodes. And two-thirds of the way down, I found a call for "TRUE LIFE: I'm Out":

Now that the anxiety of coming out to your friends and family is over, it's time to find out what being openly gay means to you. From going on your first date to marching in your first pride parade, True Life wants to follow you as you adjust to and explore the realities of gay life. Are you starting to date and not sure how to get into the game? Are you learning how to read your Gay-dar and are anxious to see if it works? Are you currently seeking new gay friends and feeling stressed about leaving old ones behind? Are you ready to go on a gay cruise or enter a drag contest but are afraid of what your family will think? Are you now homeless or being bullied as a result of coming out?

If you appear between the ages of 18 and 28 and are finding out that settling into your sexuality is tougher than you thought it would be we'd like to here from you. Please e-mail us your name, age, location, picture and brief situation to Out@mtvstaff.com

Should I do it? Advice needed.

WTF, mate?

Boys are confusing. For my next birthday, I want a dictionary for translating boy behaviour. ( Examples: )

And all that was basically to get my thoughts in order. Didn't get anywhere, though...

In totally unrelated news, the Daniel Jackson slash_100 is going well, finally. It's nice to have lots of people tell me that I melted their brains in 350 words or made them cry in 500. Very gratifying, I must say. Now I just need to keep up with at least two fic of some type a week, and I'll be happy. Pft, who needs schoolwork, anyway?

Equally unrelated, and I blame this on the roommie, but I spent half an hour watching a show on MTV called "True Life", which follows three or four people who have some situation in common and tapes them dealing with real life. In my usual oddness, I went to look up the show online, since the episode was a thought-provoking one (*gasp*, I know), and before I knew it I was on the page with their casting call for future episodes. And two-thirds of the way down, I found a call for "TRUE LIFE: I'm Out":

Now that the anxiety of coming out to your friends and family is over, it's time to find out what being openly gay means to you. From going on your first date to marching in your first pride parade, True Life wants to follow you as you adjust to and explore the realities of gay life. Are you starting to date and not sure how to get into the game? Are you learning how to read your Gay-dar and are anxious to see if it works? Are you currently seeking new gay friends and feeling stressed about leaving old ones behind? Are you ready to go on a gay cruise or enter a drag contest but are afraid of what your family will think? Are you now homeless or being bullied as a result of coming out?

If you appear between the ages of 18 and 28 and are finding out that settling into your sexuality is tougher than you thought it would be we'd like to here from you. Please e-mail us your name, age, location, picture and brief situation to Out@mtvstaff.com

Should I do it? Advice needed.

On Stupid Boys and Interminable Rehearsals

Have decided I definitely need to tell Brad to shove it up his ass, but politely.

Dunno which is worse: him misquoting a song from a musical at me that has a name in it that sounds similar to mine, or getting all "I was at the fitting so your renderings are wrong" at me about his costume, even though he's the fecking actor and I'm the one in charge of costumes, so he needs to stfu and do what I say. So I told him to suck it up and wear the damn costume in the most polite way possible, so he couldn't argue, but then he has the nerve to keep on hitting on me afterwards.

So, how do I politely but firmly tell him where to shove it? In theory, it would be best to pull him over and have a talk, but I really don't want to do it that way. I want to find a good way to shut him down that doesn't require corner-type convos. But, short of having Steve show up and kiss me senseless at the end of a rehearsal (bad idea all around), I can't see how. I still have to work for him for a month and a half, so it has to be polite and non-confrontational. I will not create drama, I just won't.

I also don't want to introduce a fictional boyfriend. I've been in that situation before, and I can never think of a way to mention it, off the top of my head. And more importantly, I don't really want to be unavailable in general, just not available to him. I haven't really thought about whether I'm actually interested in anyone else in the cast -- I try not to most of the time -- but they represent some of the heavies in the theatre department, and there's gossip and all that. And conveniently breaking up with fictional boyfriend in a month doesn't solve much, either.

I'll come up with something, I suppose, but help would be nice.

And rehearsals are going well, though I think I can quote along to most of II.iii. at this point. Oh, well.

On Stupid Boys and Interminable Rehearsals

Have decided I definitely need to tell Brad to shove it up his ass, but politely.

Dunno which is worse: him misquoting a song from a musical at me that has a name in it that sounds similar to mine, or getting all "I was at the fitting so your renderings are wrong" at me about his costume, even though he's the fecking actor and I'm the one in charge of costumes, so he needs to stfu and do what I say. So I told him to suck it up and wear the damn costume in the most polite way possible, so he couldn't argue, but then he has the nerve to keep on hitting on me afterwards.

So, how do I politely but firmly tell him where to shove it? In theory, it would be best to pull him over and have a talk, but I really don't want to do it that way. I want to find a good way to shut him down that doesn't require corner-type convos. But, short of having Steve show up and kiss me senseless at the end of a rehearsal (bad idea all around), I can't see how. I still have to work for him for a month and a half, so it has to be polite and non-confrontational. I will not create drama, I just won't.

I also don't want to introduce a fictional boyfriend. I've been in that situation before, and I can never think of a way to mention it, off the top of my head. And more importantly, I don't really want to be unavailable in general, just not available to him. I haven't really thought about whether I'm actually interested in anyone else in the cast -- I try not to most of the time -- but they represent some of the heavies in the theatre department, and there's gossip and all that. And conveniently breaking up with fictional boyfriend in a month doesn't solve much, either.

I'll come up with something, I suppose, but help would be nice.

And rehearsals are going well, though I think I can quote along to most of II.iii. at this point. Oh, well.