Anoia

My caseworker has recommended that I apply for SSI because I have extremely severe depression and it affects my ability to work... But the application process is going to take a few months, and my mom said she's going to kick me out if I don't start paying rent (I'm 18, I had to take a semester off college, guess why.) So, I'm thinking I might have to get a job at McDonalds (which I don't think I'd be able to keep.) I've heard that people on SSI get any income they earn subtracted from their benefits, which means they can work still, but is there any chance of me qualifying for it if I have a job?

I was born in Canada. I don'thave a copy of my birth certificate but I moved to the US when I was little and got an American SSN and certificate of citizenship which I used instead of a Birth Certificate somehow. I'm thinking of moving back to canada and I will need my birth certificate to prove my cittizenship, do I need to drive all the way to the hospital where I was born to get a certified copy of it or what?

It's right under the skin 1 cm under my vagina and about the size of an earring back, and very noticeable because it's lighter than the surrounding skin. It looks very much like something an std could have given me, but I've had it since I first looked down there when I was 9. It isn't mobile under the skin, but I don't think it's a skin tag because it's under the skin.

What should I tell sex partners to convince them I don't have genital warts or something?

I play acoustic guitar and ukulele, and I've never tried electric. I'm going to buy an electric ukulele though, so I need to know, how do I make the sound lo-fi? Do I need a pedal?

This guy is using a Fender mini-tone master, how did he get his uke to sound that way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox41_w-8g%E2%80%A6

And yes, I do plan on playing punk rock with my ukulele. :D

I like him, we textand IM a lot, but we've only been on one date (we liked it and planned another) but on that date he asks "what are we?" and I have no idea what to say. Because I just met him. And he asked if he could call me his girlfriend and I said that. So he put his facebook relationship status as "it's complicated" XP. Which is kind of embarrassing, because it's not, I just don't want to be introduced to all his friends as his girl yet. But I'm not seeing anyone else, or looking. We're both in high school, and now I'm worried he took it the wrong way. I forgot that in HS people have "relationships" that last 1 week. How do I explain what my reasoning was?

I was on a date and I wanted him to hold my hand, and he did. And then he kissed me. And he put his arms around me and I wished he hadn't because I felt sort of trapped. Than he held me tighter and rested his head on my shoulder, and I felt like I couldn't breathe, I nearly fainted, and felt much better when he let me go and was just holding my hand.

I've never had a boyfriend, and I had a ****** up childhood and became sort of emotionally unavailable. I've felt scared for no reason when other guys tried to get physically close to me, but not with this boy, but I guess I'm still pretty skittish, and now I'm like avoiding him but I don't want to, and I feel just horrible. How do I tell him that I'm not used to being touched by anyone, and what feels normal to him is too much for me?

We haven't known each other for that long btw, and we're 16.

A guy is interested in me, and he thinks I'm interested in him, because I was, but now I know that he has a girlfriend. But he keeps contacting via facebook, which makes it very obvious he wants to cheat. I am not interested, at all.

We IM'd for about an hour in which I learned what he wanted and was disgusted. It was a normal conversation, but he wouldn't have been talking to me at all otherwise, I don't know why I continued it, I should have known better, but I'm too polite. He gave me some lazy compliments right before i had to log off and he said "you should totally hang out with me and some friends (in three days)." I had never actually talked to him before then, ew. I told him I was busy with something I actually had (but that wouldn't have prevented me from going if I was actually interested) and logged off, so, he sent a message asking for my cell, inviting me to hang out with him and his friends (in four days) and he told me he saw me walking home from school and honked. Stalker, ****, what do I do? I say no and he'll deny it'll be a date, that "his friends" will be there who of course won't show up. Should I just ignore him? Un-add him on facebook? Tell his girlfriend?

I'm 18, btw

I used to think about guys a lot when I was in my early teens, but then I kind of stopped noticing them. After the middle-school crushes stopped I don't think I thought much about sex. Whenever I went to a girl's house they would always have pictures of topless guys pinned up near their bed, which I just didn't get. Pictures of pretty people don't excite me, and never have. I still thought some guys were cute, but it didn't have as much to do with how “attractive” they were as I think is normal. I hardly think that way about anyone at all.

But then, last year, I was in a performance with this girl I liked. I didn't think “wait, we’re both girls,” I just that she was hot. In a sexual way. Which was weird for me, not because she was a girl, but because I'd been all asexual for so long and now I was thinking naughty thoughts in rehearsals. The performance happened and I sorta forgot all about it.

I switched high schools, from a small rural one to an urban one. There's a girl in one of my classes I can't stop looking at, but I don't think I feel sexually about her, it's just that she's fricking gorgeous.

There is a lesbian at the new school who likes me, but I don't think she's attractive and don't have any classes with her. A while later another lesbian (I didn't know ANY lesbians at the old school btw, although my best kind was gay, they shut down the GSA because no one came to meetings) told me the one who liked me really liked me which I hadn't actually noticed yet. We were talking on the busride to a field trip, and she asked if I was gay or something. I said I was straight. She said “Really?!” all surprised, and I remembered that girl I’d performed with and the one in my class and also this hot androgynous person I don't know the gender of and said “well, I've liked some girls, but…”

“Aha, so you’re bicurious.”

I hadn't been, but I said “I guess…” and started wondering.

I thought to myself “it’s only been two girls…” but then I remembered how many guys I was interested in. So I tried the easiest “do I like girls” test, trying to fantasize about having sex with and looking at pictures of naked girls. Didn't work. Then I remembered about a month later that I don't fantasize about guys either. And then I started noticing girls more. And I feel like I'm faking or being trendy.

Wtf.

(From the play Waiting for Godot.)

I certainly came to my own conclusion, but my drama teacher vehemently disagrees with me for some reason. I'm just curious if Beckett himself ever mentioned it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot#Hom...

I mean legally, not emotionally. I've just found out that the laws are a bit stricter there than in the US (where I live), where it's available "on demand."

According to Wikipedia it's "legal [in Britain] for rape, maternal life, health, mental health, socioeconomic factors, and/or foetal defects."

I'm opposed to having children for moral reasons, would I go through hell trying to find a willing abortionist?

Please don't start going on about the pro-life/pro-choice debate, I'm just curious about the availability of the service.

I've heard ones that go "TICK tock tock tock" and "TICK tock tock" but those are 4/4 and 3/4, which I can already do. I want to learn to play in odd time signatures like 5/4 and 7/8 better. What can I buy that will help me with that?

I like Beirut and Arcade Fire, but they're anglophonic. I'd like bands that really have that french sound, but speak french as well. :D

I'm trying to learn the language, but all I can find is Top 40 crap.

I also like singer/songwriters like Elliott Smith, Fionn Regan, and indie bands like Death Cab for Cutie and the Dresden Dolls. French bands like that I want too.

I'm learning french and know that music can help. But I don't know any French musicians. I don't want popular music, I like indie and folk.

Beirut and Arcade Fire (both very French but anglophonic bands) are two of my favourite bands. I like that kind of music, with accordians and stuff, but all I can find is top 40 stuff. What are some french indie bands like that?

I don't want to think I am, because I always think of opportunists like Barry Goldwater. *Shudder.*

I'm as cynical as can be. I've so little faith in everything. But i'm also a hardcore existentialist. I know damn well that what I do (politically& environmentally) won't make much of a difference, but how can I possibly use the fact that no one else does anything as an excuse? That's just laziness on their part, I expect better from myself. I really do want to improve the world and do everything I can to. I not only vote, I gather signatures for petitions, I call people to remind them to vote. I buy everything used and recycle, always have. But when I got all starry-eyed at Obama and his Hope I was fighting to stay skeptical, to remember that he's still a politician and not Jesus.

So what am I, an optimistic pragmatic/realist or a pessimistic/cynical idealist?

I've got nice, shiny, strawberry blonde hair which I won't be dying. It's wavy. I plan to get an emo haircut of the older type, http://www.emohaircutstyles.com/wp-content/uploads...

But I hate the way it looks like when those emo/scene kids overstraighten their hair. What will my hair look like if I don't blow dry or straighten it after showering? How about if I go to bed with wet hair? If I stop brushing it? What if I stop washing it at all? I know if I do that with my current long bob I'd look like Amanda Palmer. But if my hair was layered, then what would it look like?

I want an acoustic/electric uke, standard size and tuning, and I'm willing to spend $150 or less. What's the best sounding model out there?

I'm drooling over the Mahalo Les Paul copies, but I hear they sound terrible.

The out of state cost is 3 times as much as it is for residents. That means it's only 15k, but I still can't afford it. Will I still not have to pay if I go there? I know private schools can make you pay full price or give a bad fin aid package, but this one's public...

All my friends pronounce it that way, but my mum alwaysed yells at me for it.

I'm a New Englander btw.

Not like the Kennedys, but rural MA, ME, and NH?

I'm thinkin o' movin' out west aftah college, ter Potland Oregon, and I'd like ter know what they'd think of how I talk.

I don't really expect a decent answer to this, don't worry.