: About Me

I want to write my novel this year. I'm always trying to figure out how I can be living my life better and my friends are people who are trying to do the same thing.

Getting drunk with me will either be drive-by therapy, depending on how OK you are at talking about what goes on in your head, or the BESTEST FUNNEST NIGHT EVER. Either way, it'll probably include accosting total strangers at bars for conversation, because who wants to talk to all the same people all the time about all the same things?

I like action movies with big explosions and I'm working on liking zombie movies because all the people I love have already planned how they'll survive the impending zombie attack and I don't want to be left behind.

What I'm Doing With My Life
Making art, getting other people to make art, becoming a better Scrabble player, hatching my writing career, surrounding myself with people who can hold their liquor and provide snappy banter.

I'm Really Good At
Reading Tarot, using my typewriter, pulling clever things out of my big beautiful ass, amusing people, painting, making chocolate chip cookies, being honest, seeing the good in people who sometimes do bad things, seeing the upside, obnoxiously talking about that upside trying to cheer you up. Giving advice I have a hard time taking, letting other people call me on my shit.

Saying the exactly right thing at the slightly wrong time.

The First Thing(s) People Usually Notice About me is;
the buttons sewn into my dreadlocks, my laugh which can be heard a block away, my white teeth, my huge smile, my huge boobs.

My Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food are
Favorite Authors: Brautigan, Sara Paretsky, Steven Chbosky, Nikki Giovanni, Lynn Hightower, Sark,

Favorite Movies: Very Bad Things, Usual Suspects, Heat,Aliens 1,2,3 and "Winona Ryder is a sad robot", Reality Bites, Man on Fire

Favorite Music: the eels, bright eyes, they might be giants, tupac, atmosphere, janis ian, mary chapin-carpenter, ani difranco, bree sharp, two nice girls, Elvis Costello, cake, mellissa ferrick, melissa etheridge, soul coughing, alanis morisette, fountains of wayne

Things I think about on accident: Sex I have had/will have/want to have. My boobs. Whether or not I should steal other people's boyfriends at my 10-year high school reunion (I'm taking a poll; survey says "Don't be that girl" but the polling sample is very small and well-behaved). Kissing Jeremy Piven. Broom-closet sex. Celebrities I love. Episodes of Veronica Mars and Battlestar Galactica that have become lodged in my brain.

Things I think about on purpose: My step by step program to ruling the world. Television shows and their socio-economic ramifications/reflections of society. Famous people I wish would die. How I will become famous. Poignant things people have said to me on accident.

If you want to read more of my writing, my livejournal address is: alisastarr.livejournal.com.

Health & Fitness > Sexually Transmitted Diseases Myths and misconceptions about STDs

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The most common misconception about STD's is how to contract them. Sexually Transmitted Diseases are contracted through sexual contact. This means that in order to get them, you have to have sex with someone who has them. It's important to note that there are a variety of sex acts and most of them fall into four categories: anal, vaginal, oral sex and mutual masturbation. The most famous, and deadly STD: HIV is transmitted through body fluids, specifically the fluids you can expect to exchange through sex: blood and semen. The easiest way to understand HIV is to think of your body as a tir...

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