Been a While...
This is gonna be quick. Ria e-mailed me the other day to ask if I had been posting lately in some sort friends-only way that she couldn't read. But no, I just haven't been posting at all. I moved last month, and my computer access is more limited, and I'm way backlogged on e-mail, and this just hasn't been a priority. But I'm still here...
Things are actually going really well. I share an apartment with two rad girls, Whitney and Shari. They used to work with me, but don't anymore, which is good. Living and working together would be too much, but just living with them is a lot of fun.
A week or two ago, Shari was reading The Last Time I Wore A Dress. Anyone read that? It's a really incredible book by Daphne Scholinski. Daphne was labelled with Gender Identity Disorder at age 14 or 15 and then spend the next 3-4 years in institutions. Daphne now goes by Dylan and is an activist on both transgender issues and issues of psychiatric abuse. He does a lot of public speaking and stuff, plus he's a great artist. I wrote a paper about him for a college class and actually got to do a pretty lengthy interview with him, so I can say that besides being talented, he's just a really great guy. Anyway, it's a good book - highly recommended. And if anyone reads it or has read it and wants to talk about it, I'd be down for that as well... But the point I started out to make is that I talked to Shari about it while she was reading it, but it was kinda weird. She doesn't know my psych background, and I'm not really sure if I want her to, but it's such an important factor in my feelings about the book...
On the other hand, I'm still dating Megan, and she continues to be really good about stuff. It's not something that I talk about all the time, or want to talk about all the time, but sometimes I need to, and she's been really supportive. And once, when the conversation was sort of hard and draining, she just held me afterwards and it was so nice. Megan's not a real huggy girl, which made me really appreciate that she did that without me having to ask.
So I have to go. But I'll try to get back to this sooner next time. Peace...
Things are actually going really well. I share an apartment with two rad girls, Whitney and Shari. They used to work with me, but don't anymore, which is good. Living and working together would be too much, but just living with them is a lot of fun.
A week or two ago, Shari was reading The Last Time I Wore A Dress. Anyone read that? It's a really incredible book by Daphne Scholinski. Daphne was labelled with Gender Identity Disorder at age 14 or 15 and then spend the next 3-4 years in institutions. Daphne now goes by Dylan and is an activist on both transgender issues and issues of psychiatric abuse. He does a lot of public speaking and stuff, plus he's a great artist. I wrote a paper about him for a college class and actually got to do a pretty lengthy interview with him, so I can say that besides being talented, he's just a really great guy. Anyway, it's a good book - highly recommended. And if anyone reads it or has read it and wants to talk about it, I'd be down for that as well... But the point I started out to make is that I talked to Shari about it while she was reading it, but it was kinda weird. She doesn't know my psych background, and I'm not really sure if I want her to, but it's such an important factor in my feelings about the book...
On the other hand, I'm still dating Megan, and she continues to be really good about stuff. It's not something that I talk about all the time, or want to talk about all the time, but sometimes I need to, and she's been really supportive. And once, when the conversation was sort of hard and draining, she just held me afterwards and it was so nice. Megan's not a real huggy girl, which made me really appreciate that she did that without me having to ask.
So I have to go. But I'll try to get back to this sooner next time. Peace...