rena_librarian | girl crush

According to urbandictionary.com...

1. girl crush
feelings of admiration and adoration which a girl has for another girl, without wanting to shag said girl. a nonsexual attraction, usually based on veneration at some level.
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I have a girl crush on a girl from a band. she can sing, she's GORGEOUS, she's doing an awesome degree and she's intelligent. i want to BE her.

Heh. I first read about these years ago, in one of Lois Lowry's Anastasia books (it must be longer ago than I thought, because now that I think about it I discovered these books when I had chicken pox and Mom brought me random books from the library, and I remember thinking that if she really knew what was in them she wouldn't have picked them for me--Anastasia's father says "damn" in one of them, and later she talks about SEX!! But nothing that, I realize now, the average 13-year-old hasn't heard anyway). I was going to say that I don't remember which one it was in, but the page I've linked to has conveniently informed me that it is, in fact, Anastasia Has the Answers. (My favorite of the series is Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst, which I severely need to track down and own, as well as my second-favorite, Anastasia's Chosen Career.) But I digress. In Anastasia Has the Answers, Anastasia asks her mom if it's okay to have a crush on a girl--she has a gym teacher who has good style and always seems to be composed and put-together, and Anastasia really admires her and wants to be her. Katherine--Anastasia's mom--says it's perfectly okay, and at one point she had a crush on her own piano teacher, whose name was Hermione. XD (Who would've guessed THAT name would catch on, judging by Anastasia's reaction?)

I STILL digress. I was going to say that I HAD one of these back in college--on my history professor, Mrs. Richardson, lol. She (as one article said is often the case) looked fabulous, much younger than her age, was witty and cool.

And now, it seems, I have developed one on a celebrity.

You Are Avril Lavigne!

A bit hardcore on the outside...
But sweet and sensitive on the inside.
"It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life"

Who's Your Inner Rock Chick?

Lol. I do. I wanna BE her. (Well, no--international singing star...not really. But attitude-wise? Yeah, kinda.) I heart her music and her style and her stick-straight hair (which, if her lyrics are true, is not natural, yay!)...yeah. (Though I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed that her hair has gone blonder with every CD she puts out...) Tough on the outside, but a romantic at heart. Liking skater boys, being annoyed by preppiness...lol. I could ramble. But I won't.

Funnily enough this developed AFTER I named a character Avril. The character was not named to honor Miss Lavigne, nor is she all that much like her personality-wise. She is naturally blessed with the aforementioned stick-straight hair, but that's about it. (And she's a pretty kick-ass character, if I do say so myself.)

So...thoughts? Any other straight girls on the flist who've had this happen to them? (*coughgamgeefestandgwenstefanicough*)

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...and speaking of Hermione--it looks like it's going to be a while before I get to read HP7, since I'm NOT buying it just yet--I'm waiting for the paperback, since it would be kind of dumb to have the first six in paperback and then one hardcover, methinks--so please be kind, lol. I don't mind minor, relatively expected spoilers (I already know about Bellatrix), but no major plot points, at least not without a warning? Plzkthx. (I'm on the waiting list to read Nico's copy but since Chris is on that list before me, I'm willing to bet I'll be able to get ahold of it at the library first.)