I need YOUR Help

[geminigirl]

That's right, dear readers, I need your help.

My best friend called me, with an interesting project, and I know some of you have something to offer here.

He's doing an independent study this Fall term...gay and lesbian literature. And he's looking for suggestions. In the brief five minute conversation we had, other than Dancer from the Dance, which is one of his favorite books of all time, I suggested that he read Rubyfruit Jungle, Stone Butch Blues, and Oranges are not the Only Fruit or Sexing the Cherry. I also tossed out Tales of the City as a possibility. I also mentioned Annie on my Mind as a possibility, dealing with lesbianism in an adolescent context.

This was a five minute conversation so there's much untapped...I haven't yet looked through my bookshelf, nor have I gone through Lambda Rising (the local gay bookstore) but I'm throwing it out to you all for suggestions.

Update I just sent him an e-mail suggesting David Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed or Spontaneous Combustion

Update #2, 11:33 PM I just e-mailed him again about adding David Leavitt's The Lost Language of Cranes or something else by him to the list.

(Oh and no comments from the peanut gallery-you know who you are, joshuapanther and grimkitten about my music selection. I still swear I'm not goth enough.)

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[geminigirl]

I am indeed home.

They told me to make sure I ate and that I drank extra fluids today. I came home, ate fruit, made a lasagna, and fell asleep. Fortunatly I'd turned the oven timer on, and woke up before the lasagna crisped. I also managed to find a bottle of diet Cherry Coke this morning on the way home. The dye made me a little ill, but I napped until nearly 4 in the afternoon, and it seems gone. Now I'm home and fidgety, but sort of alternating between reading and the computer. I just took some soup out of the freezer too, to nuke for dinner later.

Thanks again.

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[meepkitty.livejournal.com]

MMmnnnn, lasagne :) I'd eat that more often but the cheese nearly does me in. If you'd like, we could chat on the phone for the heck of it. I'm glad everything went well today for you. I'd search for dinner but just about everything needs more effort than I feel up to putting in tonight.

[geminigirl]

I seriously have like 16 pint containers of pea soup that Mom sent a few months back when some the grad students from her department were staying with me for a few days. I just decided to pull one of those out and defrost it. I might even have some frankfurters in the fridge to go with it. It's comfort food...what can I say.

Oh, and I'm sending you an e-mail in a second.