Back from the grave!
It's been about a year since my last post. I felt like I didn't have time for Live Journal for quite awhile, but now I'm back in the saddle again.
Everything's pretty much the same. Still living in Round Rock, still working my phone monkey job (but I did get the promotion mentioned in my previous post). I've started my little scanlation group, Desert Bus. It's basically my fiance and I scanlating two series: Tokimeki Tonight and Boy Alice in Wonderland. It's a long, sometimes boring process, but it gives me a lot of personal satisfaction to know people are reading my work. Also, Black Lagoon was licensed by Viz a couple months ago. I just about started crying when I broke the news to my editor. BL was my favorite project so far, and I had been translating it for two years. I have a whole e/n post about it on the Desert Bus blog, so I really won't get into it here.
One important thing that I still haven't come to terms with: my fiance has come out as a transsexual and started taking hormones. This was a gradual thing, really, as he's wanted the surgery for quite some time. He finally got a contract job at Apple, and can afford doctor bills and a therapist. (Going to a therapist is mandatory to start hormone treatment.) My real problem with this is I don't have anyone to talk to about it. I don't have many non-work acquaintances in real life, and my coworkers are all older, religious, and narrow-minded. (I like them as coworkers, but I would never spend any time with them outside work.) I also haven't told my parents yet; I'm trying to wait until I get more comfortable with it before I blow their minds. My fiance's parents did not take it well: his mother threatened suicide and made him go to a sperm bank to have his guys frozen "in case he ever wants to have children" (when pigs fly). She was pissed when she found out that she can't get access to his sperm without his permission, and that I inherit it in the event of his death. Mwahahaha. No grandbabies for her. :P
These recent events have lead me to two points of self-discovery: I'm bi (I like chicks) and I'm pretty damn masculine. Whenever we went to visit my fiance's parents, I always felt pressured into the submissive wife role even though I wear the pants in the relationship. I think next time we go to Houston I'll regale my in-laws with how I bought my sweetie his (or her) first bra. Revenge is ever so sweet. I've also decided I'm not having a real wedding. I feel marriage is superfluous, and wouldn't even get married if not for the tax breaks. My fiance and I are going down to the courthouse one weekend to get our marriage license. No ceremony, no caterers, no sappy romantic music. I would like to take a week long honeymoon in Napa Valley, with a stop over in San Francisco for some shopping. I'm going to forgo the wedding and enjoy the honeymoon.
I'll try to write more later. I'm going to translate a bit and then cook dinner.
Everything's pretty much the same. Still living in Round Rock, still working my phone monkey job (but I did get the promotion mentioned in my previous post). I've started my little scanlation group, Desert Bus. It's basically my fiance and I scanlating two series: Tokimeki Tonight and Boy Alice in Wonderland. It's a long, sometimes boring process, but it gives me a lot of personal satisfaction to know people are reading my work. Also, Black Lagoon was licensed by Viz a couple months ago. I just about started crying when I broke the news to my editor. BL was my favorite project so far, and I had been translating it for two years. I have a whole e/n post about it on the Desert Bus blog, so I really won't get into it here.
One important thing that I still haven't come to terms with: my fiance has come out as a transsexual and started taking hormones. This was a gradual thing, really, as he's wanted the surgery for quite some time. He finally got a contract job at Apple, and can afford doctor bills and a therapist. (Going to a therapist is mandatory to start hormone treatment.) My real problem with this is I don't have anyone to talk to about it. I don't have many non-work acquaintances in real life, and my coworkers are all older, religious, and narrow-minded. (I like them as coworkers, but I would never spend any time with them outside work.) I also haven't told my parents yet; I'm trying to wait until I get more comfortable with it before I blow their minds. My fiance's parents did not take it well: his mother threatened suicide and made him go to a sperm bank to have his guys frozen "in case he ever wants to have children" (when pigs fly). She was pissed when she found out that she can't get access to his sperm without his permission, and that I inherit it in the event of his death. Mwahahaha. No grandbabies for her. :P
These recent events have lead me to two points of self-discovery: I'm bi (I like chicks) and I'm pretty damn masculine. Whenever we went to visit my fiance's parents, I always felt pressured into the submissive wife role even though I wear the pants in the relationship. I think next time we go to Houston I'll regale my in-laws with how I bought my sweetie his (or her) first bra. Revenge is ever so sweet. I've also decided I'm not having a real wedding. I feel marriage is superfluous, and wouldn't even get married if not for the tax breaks. My fiance and I are going down to the courthouse one weekend to get our marriage license. No ceremony, no caterers, no sappy romantic music. I would like to take a week long honeymoon in Napa Valley, with a stop over in San Francisco for some shopping. I'm going to forgo the wedding and enjoy the honeymoon.
I'll try to write more later. I'm going to translate a bit and then cook dinner.