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[mort_edwards]

My life is very niiice. I am having many happy times with my new friends from beexsam and though I do not habitually peruse the other TF community, I am there in spirit. I may even post something sometime soon, if I feel brave enough. Yesterday I found out that validify is not a word, thankfully my mother corrected me before I wrote it down

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[lstarrunner]

Sounds like you have a great outlook on the whole thing. It's taken me a while to figure out that everything we do, no matter how mundane seeming in the day-to-day of it, can be and should be some sort of adventure. Usually, I don't see that until a part of my life is past and I start finding myself with stories to tell because of it.

Even if you are right and you are not currently good enough to do anything professional, that doesn't mean that after a few years of working at something to support your artistic habits and doing as much as you can, as a hobby for the joy of doing it at all, that you won't then be very good and able to find a way to pursue your art as a profession. I know a young woman who works as an engineer for a contractor at NASA whose real passion is jazz. She's really just working at her day job to support her music. She keeps practicing and taking gigs as she can and I really believe that someday she'll get an opportunity to be a professional musician, it's just a matter of time and perseverance.

I play an engineer for a contractor at NASA. Specifically, I'm listed as a systems engineer. I'm not sure what that means yet. This may be one of those stages of my life where I can't put my finger on it until it's past. Who knows? My technical job description has nothing to do with my day-to-day efforts. I try to make sure that communication happens timely and effectively between the engineers working on our spaceship and the engineers working on the launch vehicle (and other NASA entities). Because the program (NASA), the launch vehicle (a different part of NASA) and our vehicle are all being developed concurrently, my group exists to keep each of them cognizant of what the others need so we don't end up with a fiasco. We won't be able to know if we did our jobs well until the vehicle launches successfully for the _last_ time. Not the first time.

Sorry if that's more than you wanted to know.

And the icon is courtesy of Gogglehead84 from some post at m_e. I do love Ironhide.

[mort_edwards]

Wow, thanks! I think I was so cynical at the idea of joining live journal mostly because I thought everyone here must be a whiny 14 year old emo with nothing better to do....I am really grateful to actually receive an honest and incredibly supportive opinion from somebody! It has really meant something to me to hear that, even though my internal mother has just slapped me for typing something so stupid and fluffy ;) Your Job sounds pretty intense, colour me very impressed....next time I hear anything I will think of you....and I feel for your friend with the Jazz compulsion. I have been singing for quite a while now...but as soon as I left my original community I lost my contacts and now I am too nervous to put myself out there again, at least with writing and drawing you can retain a level of anonymity. Good luck to her!
Also, just fyi, My name is Hilary and I am in fact a young lady...not a gentleman as for some reason my online persona developed into....I don't quite know how it happened but I guess I just ran with it :)
Finally, once I have produced *something* perhaps you wouldn't mind taking a look? I get the feeling you would keep it to yourself and be honest :)

xxx
Mort

[lstarrunner]

You are very welcome. I have found the tf-fan community at m_e and transficsation to be very supportive and mostly women. I should ask Rusty what our average age is... it's probably over 25. Check out the Padded Cell, apparently that's where the core group seems to have started. I don't get over there very often, but I like that place, too.

I would be happy to beta for you, Hilary. My email address is in my profile.

We base our gender assumptions on your username... which pronouns do you prefer we use for you as Mort?

[mort_edwards]

Either or! I guess I am used to 'he' now! Thank you very much, I will send you stuff when I have mulched it all together!
Nice to know I not the only mad female TF fan!

[lstarrunner]

Far from it! I'm glad I found the tf fangirls, too.