Honor Code Spies

About a week ago, my boyfriend and I talked to someone who used to work for the Honor Code office at BYU. This person is gay, and he used to chat with people on a fake profile on connexion . What we didn't know before was that (according to what he told us about a week ago) he had been told by officials at the Honor Code office to create this fake profile to catch gay BYU students.

I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. It seemed ridiculous to me that the HCO would commission its employees to commit a form of identity theft (via using someone else's photos to create a profile on a social networking site). Having seen the workings of the HCO firsthand though, I know that such practices wouldn't be beyond them. Ethics have no place in the HCO.

In response to this shocking revelation, Rev. Dennis Busch of eGRACE International has instituted a new program to verify that online profiles are not being used by Honor Code spies. If you would like to certify your online profile, whether it be connexion, facebook, myspace, etc., please follow this link and register. Together with eGRACE, we can all create a more secure online environment.

Damn Homos with their Gay Sex!

I just finished reading When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris. I got it for Christmas 2008, and sometime in that year I became very lazy and stopped reading books. The book sat on my bookshelf unread for months, then moved to my book bag for months where it was equally untouched. Finally about a week ago I got sick of watching shows on Hulu and started reading it again.

Today I finished the book, and went to Goodreads for the first time in over a year to leave a positive five-star review for the book. There I found that my sister-in-law had also tried reading When You Are Engulfed In Flames. She, however, gave it one star. In her review she said,

"When I read a chapter that was too sexually explicit for me, it ruined the book for me. I couldn't finish it. And since then I've had the worst phrase (sexually explicit) in my head. AARGH! Curse you, David! I would have read the whole book, but I had such a bad taste in my mouth from that one chapter that everything I read after that was tainted and ugly."

For those who don't know, David Sedaris is gay, so the sexually explicit part of the book that disgusted my sister-in-law so much would have been about gay sex. Granted, if I read a book that had an explicit lesbian love scene, I would be a little weirded out (especially if it went into detail about the vag. I don't need to hear about the dynamics of the meat curtain). This review couldn't help but make me wonder about what my family really thinks about me being gay. Most of them have said that they know it's something that I can't change, and they have been very accepting of my boyfriend. I still wonder though, do I gross them out? Am I, as my sister-in-law put it, "tainted and ugly" in their eyes?

One In A Million

Sometimes I am reminded of how gay I was when I was younger and it makes me wonder how I managed to still tell myself I wasn't gay. One such instance happened tonight. Miss Congeniality was on TV and my friend Austin was watching it. Then at the following part of the movie, both of us started singing along, and we both admitted that we loved the song when we were younger. How did I not know I was gay when I liked songs like this?

I'm So Stupid

While wasting time on facebook today, a girl I went to high school with (but never really talked to) messaged me. At first we just chatted about Lady Gaga and how we'd been since high school. Then she said, "We should hang out sometime." Now, most of my experience with girls these days is with girls who know I'm gay, so I wasn't thinking and just said, "Sure, that would be fun."

We chatted some more, she gave me her number, and said that if she got a group together she'd like us to go "hang out." Now correct me if I'm wrong, but am I being tricked into a straight date? I feel so dumb because I've been out of the straight dating world for so long that I couldn't even see the warning signs that I might have been the target of a good little Mormon girl.

I hope she's like other Mormon girls, and doesn't have the balls to actually ask someone on a date. If she's one of those forward-thinking women types, I'm going to have to come out to her. Haha. Having been in a two year relationship, I'm not used to being asked out, especially not with women.

Our Lady of Gaga

I would just like to take this moment to give appreciation to Our Lady of Gaga, patron saint of homosexuals. Thanks be given to Rev. Dennis, founder of eGRACE International and Silver Beaver of the HOGB for bringing us her good word.

Save The Women's Research Institute

In October, BYU announced that they would be getting rid of the Women's Research Institute on campus. I first heard about the announcement on facebook through the status of a friend of mine. Hours later, she and a few other people had organized an effort to save the WRI. They created a facebook group and changed their profile photos to ones like the following:





I immediately joined the cause and then created a series of propaganda that really doesn't make sense, but is nice to look at:

(I like that she's holding the hot dog - or weenie - in her hand as though she has the power to destroy the manhood of anyone that dare cross her)

You wouldn't want your sister to end up looking like this, would you? (Well, that attractive Anna Wintour type person wouldn't be so bad...)

Okay, so this one is absolutely pointless, but damn he is attractive.

And this one is just good clean family fun, and I really think it gets across the urgency of the message.

UPDATE: Forgot to post this one.

The Solution To The Big Problem

Let it be said that I am not a major Twilight fan, merely a casual movie watcher. That being said, I have found my personal solution to the Team Edward/ Team Jacob dilemma. I would like to BE a Cullen, but DATE Jacob.

Jacob is by FAR more attractive, and more exciting than Edward, and I would definitely be all up on that. The Cullens, however, have very nice things, and cool powers and shit. So there we have it. Live with the Cullens, but go for Jacob. Sounds like a plan to me.



(My boyfriend, however, is quite Team Edward, which works out for both of us, seeing as how I'm pasty white and he's Native American. We each chose to go for what the other is, so it works out).

My Most Common Word Collage

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Halloween 2009

I previously posted about what I wanted to be for Halloween. Well, I actually went with the plan to be Anna Wintour, and I'm quite pleased with how it went.



I dressed up for our Halloween Game Night, and had a really great time. My feet hurt like a son of a bitch in my heels by the end of the night, but it was worth it. (By the way, if anyone reading this took pictures at the Game Night, please send them to me, even if I'm not in them. Thanks!)

On Saturday a few friends and I decided to get in our costumes and head to WalMart, just to see how people would react to our fairly controversial costumes.


I know you normally wouldn't see Anna Wintour shopping for scented candles in WalMart, but there you have it.


My friend Austin was a sexy mouse, like Karen from Mean Girls. You can't really see his costume in this photo, but he's definitely showing off the assets...


And finally we have Devin, in his Bruno costume, showing plenty of cheek.

We had an employee at WalMart came over to us saying, "They told me I have to give you candy... so, here you go..." She seemed really nervous to have to even talk to us. Sure, we were obviously gay, but that doesn't mean we'd hurt her. Haha. Then some guy came over and asked to take a photo with us. Needless to say, a good time was had by all, except the girl with the candy.

Halloween Game Night

How would you like to attend the greatest social event of the season? How would you like to be one of the "cool kids"? How would you like to be popular? Game Night promises all these things and more, and you are cordially invited to partake. If you would like to attend, let me know, either by leaving a comment or sending me an email (you can find a link to my email on my profile). If you would like to receive the official facebook invite (the event is listed as "secret" on there so those who aren't out yet are free to say "attending") let me know. This Game Night will be Halloween themed, and costumes are required. It should be lots of fun, and there should be lots of people to meet, so please let me know if you're interested. It will be October 28th at 8:00 pm.