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The Barbie Cool Campus Collection concept by Jon Seisa,  Former Art Director Of Advanced Concepts for the Girls’ Toy Division at Mattel (1989)

Barbie

Campus Cool Barbie, is a younger “hipper” Barbie, who is at the cutting edge of college life excitement and colorful campus action! This versatile new segment boasts an array of campus activities from trendy sports to romantic tea dances. Because it is a fast-pace lifestyle of multidimension, and spirited youthful fun, one is apt to see the “new” Barbie energetically applying her wit and skill to the flood of trendy activities sweeping the campus.

There’s a hot new on-the-go look to “Campus Cool Barbie’s” hair. It’s hair with action, a crimped wave of action! Such a romantic touch that gives “movement” to Barbie’s “kicky” new look. And there’s “lotsa, losta golden locks” streaming down in beautiful waves around her fresh new sparkling face.

“Sorority House” is usually the scene whre Barbie may gush girlish gibberish with her trusty confidants, “The Sorority Sisters.” Together, they are known by the entire campus as “The Fab Four!”

Cherise

Firstly, there is Barbie’s stylish friend, Cherise, a knockout French exchange student, who is a fashion design major, and the most “together gal” in College Town, next to Barbie, of course. Cherise sports beautiful crimped soft brunette hair cropped into a stunning short, sweet-n-sassy asymmetrical cut that is just striking against her creamy white porcelain complexion, cherry lips, and gorgeous aqua eyes. Tossed over one eye is a big swooping bang she calls, “The Tidal Wave,” giving her a look of coquettish playfulness. And playing it up she does, for Cherise loves “fashion play,” especially many fun looks with her fabulous hair pieces to fool all the boys. You can be sure when this French filly enters, everyone stands and takes notice! Especially, those crazy boys!

Brit-N.Y.

Also, there is bubbly Brit-N.Y. A Britain-born New Yorker, who is totally cosmo to the max, cosmopolitan that is, and she knows more about this infinite world than any boy, so it seems. Brit-N.Y. is that “expressive” art major full of vigorous innovation. Willing to take a stand to almost anything, she is the political activist in the group, quite liberal as youth often is, and definitely, this spills over into her artistically creative fashion look that express her flexible readiness, for she’s a gal who likes to be on guard to tackle whatever unexpected surprise life may filling her way. Brit-N.Y. is dashing off to a political science class, her equestrian lesson, a hot new “save the world” march, or just marshing off to meet a new hot new date for the Fraternity Dance, you can rest assure this quickchange artist is look’n mighty fine in her “Campus Cool Fashions.” Expressive fashions that compliment Brit-N.Y.’s gorgeous chestnut shimmering doo of wavy, wavy locks and wild tousled bangs.

Rory

Last but not least, is graceful and charming Rory, an exotically sweet Portuguese honor student from colorful and exciting Brazil! She is more knowledgeable on Americana than most Americans, but only because Rory’s dream is to become a U.S. citizen, and launch an aspiring medical practice in breathtaking San Francisco, her “all time fav” place! Rory sports very long luxurious blue-black hair styled in a striking crimped pyramid fashion with a dramatic high sweeping pompadour. Blessed with a golden olive complexion and hypnotic innocent dark brown eyes that can melt anyone’s heart, Rory is a “Brazilian babe” the Campus Boys are falling head over heels for, including their grades!

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it's just really fucking frustrating that we live in a world where I grew up being trained to believe that addicts are unloveable. and then I became an addict and I was still told that addicts are unloveable. and I just have to deal with the fact that there are people out there who believe that I don't deserve love, or that my partner is brave for loving me, or that my family and friends are suffering just from me existing. and that's fine that's just the way it is

but then on top of that. I have to deal with tumblr users telling me (an addict!!!) that they hate addicts in a cool new way that I should be totally sympathetic towards. see, they had a family member who was the most evil person on the planet! and that family member was an addict! so they can't help the fact that they now want all addicts to die! they can't help it! blast them all.

Chronic pain pisses me off cause I'm not even incapacitated for like a cool or badass reason instead my body is throwing the world's biggest temper tantrum because it's raining outside

It's strange how, after a while of living with fibromyalgia, I have to regularly remind myself of what healthy actually feels like.

I have to remind myself that most people don't experience pain every day.

I have to remind myself that going to the park for an hour is not a big outing.

I have to remind myself that most people don't have to decide between cooking and showering.

I have to remind myself that most people can achieve more than one thing a day.

After 5 years, what I see as my baseline has distorted. It's so easy to slip back into old patterns, to try to do more than I have the capacity for, to get angry at myself, to push myself too hard.

So I have to remind myself to be gentle and patient, to pace myself, to set boundaries, and to ask for help.

I don't radically love myself yet but I do love myself like I would a messy af best friend. I don't agree with some of their choices and sometimes they can be dumb as hell but I love the bastard