got a frog in my throat
My voice started breaking over the weekend (right before my jazz ensemble concert, too! Those high notes were fun stuff, let me tell you). This is a pretty significant part of the transition process, but on a purely observational note I am very much not used to this new voice of mine. I like it. I like it a lot. But I open my mouth and I expect to sound different than I do, and it's the weirdest feeling. Like being sick, only my throat is clear. My throat also hurts like I've been straining it, which I suppose I probably have been.
My folks still don't know I've been taking T, but the voice shift will probably alert them before too long. Meanwhile, I'm starting to come out to family members again, and have got some really positive responses over facebook from several of my cousins. (Rowan wants to take me for a pint. But I already knew he was supercool.)
Today was wonderful and magical and delightfully filled with excellent music, but I think I can best sum it up in two words:
ALEX WONG.
Vienna Teng & Alex Wong in concert, actually. They played a bunch of my favourite songs of theirs - - Stray Italian Greyhound, for instance, and Antebellum, In The Creases, Harbor, and their epic cover of Radiohead's Idioteque. Their opening act was this Welsh fellow named Paul Freeman who I actually rather enjoyed despite some questionable musical choices. He was a lot of fun, for sure. And he and Vienna had co-written a song that was actually really cool -- hopefully when Vienna gets her master's degree she'll record it with him.
I drew many sketches, and ended up giving the Paul Freeman page of sketches to the man himself, after he seemed so excited about them. But I still have the rest, which involve Vienna and Alex dressed as superheroes (long story; I'll explain when I post them) and some adventures in stylised noses.
and now I am beat and I finished beefing up my Remix fic (thank you so much everyone who prompted me!), so I will say good night for now and talk to you all later.
My folks still don't know I've been taking T, but the voice shift will probably alert them before too long. Meanwhile, I'm starting to come out to family members again, and have got some really positive responses over facebook from several of my cousins. (Rowan wants to take me for a pint. But I already knew he was supercool.)
Today was wonderful and magical and delightfully filled with excellent music, but I think I can best sum it up in two words:
ALEX WONG.
Vienna Teng & Alex Wong in concert, actually. They played a bunch of my favourite songs of theirs - - Stray Italian Greyhound, for instance, and Antebellum, In The Creases, Harbor, and their epic cover of Radiohead's Idioteque. Their opening act was this Welsh fellow named Paul Freeman who I actually rather enjoyed despite some questionable musical choices. He was a lot of fun, for sure. And he and Vienna had co-written a song that was actually really cool -- hopefully when Vienna gets her master's degree she'll record it with him.
I drew many sketches, and ended up giving the Paul Freeman page of sketches to the man himself, after he seemed so excited about them. But I still have the rest, which involve Vienna and Alex dressed as superheroes (long story; I'll explain when I post them) and some adventures in stylised noses.
and now I am beat and I finished beefing up my Remix fic (thank you so much everyone who prompted me!), so I will say good night for now and talk to you all later.