no boys allowed in the room!!!!

i don't keep track of my cycle at all -- these days i know it's coming from my general mood + the convenient discomfort of mittelschmerz

Me neither! I have to laugh when the doc asks for the date of my LMP, I'm usually like, "Sometime in..the last 3 weeks? I'm pretty sure."

i used to just rely on my bank records for transactions that probably included tampons

That's very accountant-y of you.

hahahah

I jnow when it's coming based on zits sprouting and bad attitude, but its usually 30 days.

i use the period tracker app, and i have a 28 day cycle and my next period will start 2 days into my honeymoon which is also my birthday!! which is only really crappy considering menstrual onset engenders a lupus/MCTD flare every single time for me. so i'll have one honeymoon day of bad pain and fatigue but hey, get used to it, husband. lol.

on the bright side, maybe the stress of marriage and graduation will delay my period.

i feel like this is a very Job Robinson post so id like to say something positive about my life which is that some of my BFFs and i are organizing a knoxville rock camp for girls this summer, and we've got mad funding, equipment, and a location all sorted out - registration for volunteers and students starts soon and i'm v excited.

that is so cool!!
you must have insane organizational skills. that's a lot to pull off!

Wow! Rock Camp For Girls thing sounds super-amazing! Well done!

(also good luck on yr honeymoon, ugh for day of crappiness and pain)

Rock camp! Awesome!

I want to send Ivy to rock camp. She can probably hold drum sticks.

I wished that rock camp for girls had been around when i was growing up. A friend of mine works for the one here. I am unclear on whether there's a national organization that the regional ones are subsidiaries of or whether they are all independent and are kind of like a franchise or ...?

gah no kidding
i was sent to babysitting camp and horse camp :-/

I was sent to church camp, she announced, much to the surprise of no one.

I went to a week-long Elks camp. I was 12. I had my period. It was terrible.

I was supposed to go to sleep away camp one year but I was too scared to be away from home for that long so I chickened out and never went. lol @ me. I went to day camp every summer and was a counselor there until college though and that was pretty fun but I bet nowhere near as awesome as rock camp.

i got hives at horse camp and everyone thought it was because i was allergic to horses but it turns out that it was just because i hated camp so much that i broke out in hives

I went to camp to do archery. I think I was about 14 or 15? It was me and a gang of 12 year old boys. I kicked their asses, basically.

parents didn't send their kids to camp where i was from. i think i went to a day camp once? they had a banana slip n slide and we made ice cream from scratch. that's all i remember. Oh and I went to "nerd camp" one summer, which was actually cool.

I went to a 7-week girls camp in Maine for many years, lol WASP lyfe

most summers i would go "actual" camping with my parents at Big Sur for at least a weekend

I wished that rock camp for girls had been around when i was growing up. A friend of mine works for the one here. I am unclear on whether there's a national organization that the regional ones are subsidiaries of or whether they are all independent and are kind of like a franchise or ...?

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There's a national coalition that a lot of them are affiliated with, but not all. Ours is and some of us went to the national conference this year which was awesome. The theme was trans allyship and one of the dorms was named Beyonce. We stayed in Rihanna iirc

Yeah, camp was not a thing where I grew up either. The Elks camp was because my best friend's dad was the president of the Elks or some shit so we got to go for free.

There were "day camp" things but those were really just classes and band camp, but that was just summer band practice. Camp. The word has no meaning.

xp omg

I'm really focused on making our rock camp help attendees break through gates that keep girls and women out of music, or parts of music production that girls are kept out of sometimes - things like gear, electronics, recording, tech stuff. I think that's so important and overlooked. I also want to have a women's camp or series of workshops to teach skills in these areas to grown women who feel intimidated by tech/gear stuff

that is so awesome

Oh, I'm so glad. Because that was so often (at least in my generation) treated as some kind of a barrier to female musicians. And I was lucky in that my Dad was a soundman, and he taught me to have no fear of the tech/gear stuff. But I think it's really important to teach young women "this stuff is not intimidating; this is how you do it!" And encourage that sense of experimentation without that whole oft-repeated "this stuff is scary; ergo, girls will be rubbish at it" load of crap, so that they end up getting familiar with it, and putting in the time to mess around with it and learn it.

I have never been to an anything camp because that is not really a Britishes thing. Only the Girl Guides/Boy Scouts/etc do that over here, and the local Brownies which I was in v briefly never went camping. I did go to a one-night trek-and-hostel trip with a Christian youth group when I was 12 and it was horrible: my period + mean gurlz who laughed at me all weekend + couldn't sleep bcz massively uncomfortable dorm bed with bright lights and snoring

My coworkers' kids all go to "rock school" every week and I am jealous, nothing like that back in my day. I like to pretend maybe if rock school had existed I could've been someone! but it does sound like it is a lot of boys trying to be ~hard~ so I probably would not have got on enormously well (my life: "hi I am into boyish things why will none of these boys talk to me"), so I think roxy's rock camp for girls is super awesome and I hope many girls will get the courage to start kickass bands from it

we started a short lived weekend workshop version of it several years ago, and it didnt last for various reasons - we've been building and planning til we can do a full fledged camp which is now happening. anyway, one band formed out of those workshop days called the Pinklets, and they still (3 or so years later) gig regularly, have tons of songs, and are completely overbooked constantly. they are really good, too! all about 10, i'd say. the drummer might be 8.

this is them: http://www.knoxville.com/news/2013/may/09/knoxville-music-pinklets-vestival/

That makes me so so so very happy.

with their new bassist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B75rz_b5ey0

is that their original song or a cover?

man they are so cute -- the singer is great! so expressive.

original, all their songs are original and they are all good!

this song gets stuck in my head all the damn time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASX53cJeKn8

that is a damn fine chorus imo

wow
talent AND good fortune (their parents sound awesome)

their parents are really great. they are really big on protecting them, not letting them be exploited or get burned out. they don't let them promote on facebook or have a fan page, etc. they don't want it to stop being fun for them, which i think is admirable

i mean obv they are big on protecting them, they are their parents. lol. but big on protecting them from the negative aspects of the spotlight, is what i mean

totally
it's funny how easy it is to make something not fun anymore too, esp at that age (all the ages really, at least afaik)

bands have a high turn around on that, even for adults. lol.

Those songs were great!

I loved this: Gabourey Sidibe’s Wonderful Speech From the Ms. Foundation Gala

"So, okay, we're back in fifth grade, and I just had been rejected by 28 kids in a row. And I was sitting alone at my desk, with an empty Ziplock bag, crumbs in my lap, and I was at this great party that I had waited for all week. I waited all week for this party that I wasn't invited to. And for some reason I got up, I sat on my desk, and I partied my ass off. I laughed loudly when something funny happened. And when Miss Lowe put on music, I was one of the first ones to get up and dance. I joined the limbo, and ate chips, and drank soda, and I enjoyed myself, even though no one wanted me there. You know why? I told you — I was an asshole! I wanted that party! And what I want trumps what 28 people want me to do, especially when what they want me to do is leave. I had a great time. I did. And if I somehow ruined my classmates' good time, then that's on them. "How are you so confident?" "I'm an asshole!" "

<3

i love that whole speech so much!

I do, too! Amy Schumer's speech at the same event is getting a lot more attention (from my friends (on facebook (so scientific))) and it's not nearly as good; her's is like "a guy tried to fuck me once in college and he didn't even like me and he couldn't get a hard on! live life to the fullest and don't feel ugly!" NB tho I really don't dig Schumer's schtick.

i srsly got tears in my eyes just reading it when she got to the part about giving the fist-in-the-air to the picture every day

also that story totally reminded me of abbott's story about intentionally staying in the "men only" room of that one party and insisting on having a good time and talking about whatever she wanted to

My friend sent me this link saying "I was looking for saguaro lamps on etsy and found this very NSFW thing that made me think of you"
https://www.etsy.com/listing/186933292/leluv-7-inch-cactus-dildo-double

Like, that kind of warms my heart. FEAMEL FRANZ RULE!!

In other news pertinent to this thres, last night I had a dream that I was getting a checkup at my PCP. He asked me about my nexplanon implant I got a few months ago. "Did you put in the batteries when it got inserted?" I looked in my purse and found a baggie w/two teeny tiny batteries. "Is it too late to put them in now?" I asked, and he just snorted, like "oh you poor lady." I woke up like "nooo I'm sooo pregnant"

So it's been the norm lately to wake up at 4 a.m. from an anxiety dream but at least this one wasn't work related??