Three very surreal things have happened lately in my life:
I have realized that I Am Growing Up (yes, this deserves capitals.) I'm almost done with high school, I'm going to be moving out soon, and living independently, and going to college. I feel like I've been waiting for this forever, yet it is also coming way too fast.
I'm writing a paper in my English class about the AIDS/HIV epidemic and LGBT youth, with a emphasis on a historical analysis and solutions for the future. Today I interviewed a senior lawyer who has been doing AIDS legal work for decades, and was doing queer youth organizing before that. It's hard to comprehend what the AIDS crisis was like at the beginning, with all the uncertainty and fear. I've been doing a lot of thinking about this, and it's still not making any more sense and I still can't understand it or wrap my head around it.
My mother, and now my grandfather are on Facebook. This says so much about social networking, and how communication happens in the era of the Internet. I think this message captures it all:
friend your grandfather
Between You and Mom
Mom
Today at 8:31pm
He just started a Facebook profile. It could be a simple way for him to keep the family posted when he travels to South America this winter.
