Do something scandalous

This semester. I might do it. That would be sufficiently scandalous.

I could go home to my quaintly conservative farm town, stand up at a town meeting/church service/high school assembly, and say, “Hey all, remember me? Of course you do, I was the overachieving valedictorian who went off to an Ivy League school. Well, I just wanted to let you know that I’m bisexual, I’m a Gender & Sexuality Studies major, and I haven’t even considered taking a math or science class since senior year!”

Ha. Or not.

Funny how the same things that make me a dime a dozen here at school would be completely shocking back home.

(Well, now that everyone knows where I go to school…H+Y+P are not the only Ivies, gosh darnit!)

I don’t usually like to do “scandalous” things… wild and crazy, maybe. But not scandalous. I prefer to keep my integrity and dignity, whereas I personally feel like I’m losing some of that when I go down that road.

So I did #1 recently, and it was amazing. Masumi and I posed together, the pictures game out beautifully, and we felt incredibly empowered afterwards. I can’t wait to see if we make it into the calendar!

However, I was busy the day they shot #2, so I’ll have to try again next year. I don’t think I’ll count this goal as finished because the SuFI photo shoot was very artistic, so even though posing nude was an exciting step for me, I wouldn’t classify it as scandalous. I guess I’ll have to think of something else, or wait till next year to pose for SPG (or just do something scandalous at SPG itself).

1. Pose nude (with local produce!) for the annual calendar that SuFI (Sustainable Food Initiative) publishes.

2. Pose almost-nude, with some sort of sexually deviant theme, for the SexPowerGod advertisements.

I’m feeling really empowered and good about my body lately. (I think that watching “Real Women Have Curves” tonight sort of solidified that feeling…) And I think that both of these things would be sufficiently scandalous – at least by my normally-tame-behavior standards – to count for the goal. Particularly since they will be seen all across campus, by lots and lots of people I know. Including professors and the first-year residents for whom I’m supposed to be a role model.

Let’s just say I won’t be showing my mother the SPG ads.

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no one will be able to accuse you later of having lived a humdrum life. There’s a quote I love, but I can’t remember by whom: “Everything I’ve done in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.”

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it weren’t for my scandalous ways. Some make me blush, smile or just laugh out loud! :)~

I get sick to my stomach thinking about the scandalous things I’ve done over the years and sometimes I just smile to myself and recall the fantastic scandalous memory.

Do it while you still can! My ‘scandalous’ days are truly over.