I got a new Dr. Who shirt. It's pretty stellar.
This is currently my favorite tee shirt. It's a super soft vintage Philippines tourist shirt. It's from the eighties. Sometimes, I like to think it's from the Marcos years. Don't ask me why. Perhaps it has something to do with Imelda Marcos' room full of shoes.
Bastet is catching onto the whole selfie craze. She's the reason I can't have nice things, but I lover her anyway. She's my rock.
So the other day it was my official ten year anniversary here on SG. It's weird. It doesn't feel like it's been that long. In fact, I think the nineties were still ten years ago, but I digress...
It was all so different then, SG I mean. Back then you could still have a friend take your set with a plain ol' digital camera and it would get accepted. (How do you think my first set made it? Lol.) There were less girls than days of the year. I look at it now and it just exploded! And that's not a bad thing. I see all the hopefuls who are drop dead gorgeous (like @ameline...whoa.) and I think that if I was in my early twenties today and tried to be an SG I would never make the cut! It's like I got in at the right time, and for that I'm glad. I remember I first saw SG when I was a freshman in college. I wanted to apply right then, but I had a shaved head. My friends insisted the site wanted girls who had hair. (They were probably right. I was pretty butch looking. Pictures do exist from this era. I have to dig them out. It will be an archaeological cyber search.)
I kept thinking about it. I've always been an exhibitionist. I modeled for the life drawing classes at school. I posed naked for photography majors. I was in a few student films. On Christmas Eve in 2003 I got together the chutzpah and applied. A few days later I got an e mail from Missy herself telling me I was in. The rest is history, I suppose.
I've met such amazing people on this site, some of whom I'm still close with to this very day, like @kev1n. He's a pretty stellar human being. I have also had the most amazing adventures courtesy of this site. Even when I wasn't active on here not a day went by where I didn't think about it. I wondered how everyone was doing, if the girls I was enamored with were still here, if the members I always enjoyed talking to were still around.
And the site has changed so much several times! There are parts about the old site that I miss, like chat and a top five favorite SG's section. (There should be a top five SG section and a top five Hopeful section, in my opinion.)
Sometimes, I feel really old here, because there are so many young hopefuls and SG's. I think about how old they are and realize that they don't remember the Reagan years because they weren't alive during the Reagan years. And that when I was drinking my first beer and getting into bars with a fake ID they were still in grammar school. But you know what? That's okay. Because I was alive and coming of age during some pretty intense and interesting times.
And I'm still pretty god damn hot, hotter than I was ten years ago. Only now I'm also smart and have developed a certain self confidence I've never had before. And I believe all of this came with getting older and that I could not possibly have been like this when I was younger, because this sort of confidence and wit only happen with years. They're not something you can buy or simply mimic.
Well that's it. I don't want to say, "Here's to ten more years!" because in ten years I'll be forty one. And frankly, I don't want to think about that right now.
