{"id":88,"date":"2000-01-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/18\/subsisting_on_s\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:30:01","slug":"subsisting_on_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/18\/subsisting_on_s\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsisting on Snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Lots of snacking does not make a satisfying meal.&#8221;<\/strong> Every once in a while I manage to phrase a little pearl of wisdom just right. If only I were as good at paying attention to the good advice I dole out. That pithy little bit came up in the midst of an e-mail exchange in which I was talking about how disappointing it is to live someplace where sex is easy enough to find, but more substantial company is not. In the words of another pundit, &#8220;A little experimenting here and there can be fun, but mothafucka! I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fun no mo&#8217;.&#8221; I agree totally.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I go through periods of carnal self-indulgence (usually fueled by frustration or boredom), but in the end I\u2019m a big ol&#8217; softie whose primary goal is not short-term adventure. Not only do random hook-ups rarely give me the boost of sexual self-confidence I\u2019m craving, but they tend to undermine the things about myself that I really am confident about, &#8216;cuz those qualities just don&#8217;t matter in that particular game.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo, Romeo, where the fuck art thou? <\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, you&#8217;d think it was a year or so ago that the long, slow, excruciatingly painful process of me getting dumped began. Or something. Granted, that was an inevitable result, considering how ill-suited he and I were for each other. We would have realized sooner or later that we&#8217;d managed to confuse one another for the idealized, fictionalized memories we had of each other from the first time around. But damn, what a gruesome way for it to have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell what kind of mood Sparky&#8217;s in today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lots of snacking does not make a satisfying meal.&#8221; Every once in a while I manage to phrase a little pearl of wisdom just right. If only I were as good at paying attention to the good advice I dole out. That pithy little bit came up in the midst of an e-mail exchange in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/18\/subsisting_on_s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subsisting on Snacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69708,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/69708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}