So where am I today?
Hmmm...good question. It's been more than three years since I first popped the blue pill (ummmm, okay, so it was white--details, details)
I've been full-time for just short of two years. I finished hair school and makeup school, realized I needed to challenge my brain and returned to college. This semester I graduate with a BA in journalism and minor in psych and hopefully start law school in the fall. Changing gender while attending college was an ordeal in itself! Details for another day.
Emotionally, I'm a roller coaster but thankfully 'passing' (as it's come to lovingly be known) just isn't much of an issue these days. Just this weekend, a transwoman I met at Cacoon house while visiting San Fran with a friend consulting with dear Mr. O who said she prides herself on her "acute T-dar," told me something to the effect of I was the most "unclockable" transgirl she's ever met. HAHA! Surely, she jests! She must not have met any! LoL Nice to hear, none the less. I retell the story hoping to believe it more.
The boy and I are having our ups and downs but mostly the latter as of late, unfortunately. So goes life. Being young, trans and in your first relationship with a boy...hmm, *note that one for a future blog.
I'm attacking the 'job thing' head on and dealing with the fact I'm venturing out into the "real world" with no work experience as the female me. I know, nothing new to the transwoman but trust me when I say nothing could've prepared me for the sheer terror of sitting through interviews not knowing how 'that little fact' will play itself out this time--for me anyway.
On a positive note, I've just landed a job at an LA publication. I left my clips portfolio with the editor-in-Chief last week. I REALLY thought that interview was a flop. Well, he calls me today and leaves me a message. He says he met with his publisher and executive editor and they were "blown away" by my published work. They said, though interns usually don't write for the magazine, they have every bit of confidence in me to allow me to write for the magazine immediately. HA! Jest again!
(Okay, we see how I have the tendency to dismiss compliments hurled my way? Get used to it. It gets old, sure. But what better way to keep my self esteem nice and stable. LoL)
In any event, It was nice to be appreciated, seemingly genuinely, for work I've done.