I got read as male consistently in Nottingham. I got sirred pre-T there. I'm (happily) seen as male outside of London/Brighton/Manchester. I'm ssometimes/often een as a butch lesbian in large metropolitan cities, which is... a thing ( Read more... )

( Good stuff )

( TMI ew ew ew do not want )

CisgenderedCisgendered means that a person has the same gender as an adult as they were thought to have as a baby/child. It means that they are not trans. The majority of the people reading this blog are cisgendered. Cisgendered is a new word, and isn't used very much outside of the trans/femminist/gender theoretical(?) communities, but it is a ( Read more... )

Good stuff:

Met up with an old friend after not seeing each other for over a year. It went well. We bonded over exercise :-)
Had pizza with vicki_t_veg. Pizza is a rare event for me nowadays. It was good to hang out ( Read more... )

I walked from King's Cross to Kilburn via Regent's Park today, it was really nice. I went shopping in the marvellous army surplus store in Kilburn, and *bought stuff that fit me*. Yay! I shall be looking all butch and grr at Vagabonds this Saturday ( Read more... )

This week I did a stupid. I played Solitaire several times for hours at a time (whilst IMing and checking LJ and eating and watching TV all at once). I wanted to shut off my feelings, and I succeeded. I have injured my wrists as a result. This *sucks* as it means I have to do less weight-lifting. I'm going to the gym today to do some lower body ( Read more... )

My flipping passport came through the letterbox this morning! I don't know where it's been. Have the courier company lied to the passport agency about posting it on 24th December, or did someone receive it through their letterbox and call the freephone number on the back of the envelope? I want a refund of the £25 I paid for express service ( Read more... )

( Other people's dreams are boring, even when they're nightmares about make-up. )

Inspired by parenting programmes, I have devised a reward system for self-care. Behold!

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