Wednesday, June 06, 2007

WHAT'S IN A BLOG NAME?

i have done some brainstorming which produced a couple of possible blog names before i settled with my queertessential grasp. i have searched high and low for a witty pun (perhaps acceptable is more like it) and i came across the word quintessential. a lightbulb flashed inside my head in an instant.

i used to be an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. this ordinariness, with a dose of broken heart drama, prompted me to venture on a job in an unfamiliar land courtesy of a college girl friend. she did not just pave the way for me to get a more lucrative job; more importantly, she taught me that love is not confined between two persons of opposite sex.

we both risked our six years of wonderful friendship by taking our relationship to the next level. we have been a couple for two years now--two years of ups and downs and in-betweens.

being in a lesbian relationship for the first time, i find myself overcome with a lot of emotions. having experienced the rigors of this kind of relationship has waned my emotional strength and intellectual capacity. this blog will let me share my understanding of the LGBT world. this blog will help me rationalize the choices i made and will make, the things i did and will do for this relationship. my queertessential grasp will be my bastion of sanity, my beacon of hope.


...I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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