http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4658&msg_id=4775 So far as Cat's Eye goes, it has real characters, but she just seems like a pretty horrible person in the end. And I don't mean her treatment of her "friend" - because that can still be viewed as the teenage responses to ongoing relational issues between the two of them. I mean her relationship with her husband and her children - even her adult life kind of sucks and she's still not that great of an individual. This doesn't make it an awful book, in fact it makes it a really interesting character study and fascinating to discuss, but I don't know that it's a good one if you're trying to go for strong female role models and self-sufficiency. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Mercy General Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:08:15 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4658&msg_id=4775 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4658&msg_id=4771 Ah. Well, that's a bit more difficult. About all I have are gtfothinspo.tumblr.com which is a good pro-feminist body-positive site. I guess the rest of it I just kind of pick up through osmosis and the people I spend time with. I guess just if you see anything that strikes you as particularly powerful, send it her way. Maybe if you're talking with her mention some really fierce characters you know - Zoe's always a good one - and how they represent different facets of femininity? Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Mercy General Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:37:43 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4658&msg_id=4771 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2176&msg_id=2434 This makes me miss Alaska something fierce. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Mercy General Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:03:47 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2176&msg_id=2434 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1247&msg_id=1247 I remember that I was with a couple people who were supposedly family of mine, though since I have no sisters they were definitely not real family. We went through some sort of spot in a garage, and apparently we had died. We were underground, running from someone in this "afterlife." We had to face our fears, and then we had to do something else that I'm forgetting, and we could return to the living. Once we were out, we had to stop some sort of war, and then we had free access to both the living and non-living realm, until one day someone came out of the portal-esque thing that we used to travel, told us we had to kill the red queen, that it was necessary or we would be pulled back to the afterlife forever, along with some others. It was more difficult getting through the portal, we had to go in headfirst, like a dive, and kind of push through the ground, like it was viscous. We were deciding whether or not to find the queen when I woke up. There were a bunch of other things that happened before we first escaped the underworld place, but I cannot currently remember them. Weird dream. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Perchance to Dream Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:55:42 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1247&msg_id=1247 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1097&msg_id=1133 Thanks for the tips, guys. I'll try some of them out. Possibly go on a walk this weekend, by myself, just to get back to seeing things again. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Asked and Answered Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:55:34 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1097&msg_id=1133 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1097&msg_id=1097 Hey, does anybody have a good way for dealing with mid-semester dulling of motivation, coupled with homesickness and a bit of just being depressed? It's annoying, and I'd appreciate it stopping. Thanks for any responses. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Asked and Answered Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:02:02 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=1097&msg_id=1097 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=209&msg_id=209 I think this fits here: http://www.cracked.com/blog/marriage-anyone-it-took-me-5-minutes-to-become-a-minister/ a funny article, though with angry undertones. Also I just enjoy cracked. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Cognitive Surplus Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:49:08 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=209&msg_id=209 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=98&msg_id=98 Anybody here ever run into the issue of having people that you've known for a remarkably long time expect you to do/not do things that are completely out of line for things you would actually do/not do, based on an assessment not of your character or personality, but on social norms and expected behavior of someone your age/in your position/in your circumstances? If so, how did you deal with it? (If this fits better in Asked and Answered, feel free to move it, but I'd like general discussion on the topic as well as individual answers, if possible) Thanks for any input, I'm kinda upset about this at the moment. Aldis@idkfa.com (Aldis) Mercy General Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:57:56 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=98&msg_id=98