So about waiting until MArch 31st...
So what happened is, I didn't remove my makeup before I went to sleep last night. Then I over slept a bit and would have been late if I took the time to wash it off in the morning. But it was still in very good shape so I thought about it for the longest 30 seconds I have yet experienced, and decided to take the plunge and go to work fully as Julie. Purse, heels and all.
I sent an email to my HR representative apologizing for not waiting until the 31st of March as planned. I expected some sort of unhappy message about not warning them or what ever like I would have gotten from our previous rep. What I got instead was one sentence. "I'm proud of you."
I damn near ruined my makeup right then. But I guess we Julie's have to support on another. ^_^
Later we talked for a good 45 minutes about where we go from here. Other details are unimportnat right now but the major one was this: If I commit to being Julie full time at work from here on out, she will push through getting my name fixed on everything that isn't a legal document. So even without having the paperwork back from the court, all the work things I really care about will now say Julie. I very nearly wept again.
So now I'm home. Tomorrow I run the Score Room for Odyssey of the Mind Regionals as David. But as soon as the score room is closed down and packed up... I come home and almost all my Dave clothes go to Salvation Army. Legally I may not be quite there yet. But in every other way, after tomorrow, there is only Julie.
And now, finally, I am weeping. With Joy! So much Joy!
I sent an email to my HR representative apologizing for not waiting until the 31st of March as planned. I expected some sort of unhappy message about not warning them or what ever like I would have gotten from our previous rep. What I got instead was one sentence. "I'm proud of you."
I damn near ruined my makeup right then. But I guess we Julie's have to support on another. ^_^
Later we talked for a good 45 minutes about where we go from here. Other details are unimportnat right now but the major one was this: If I commit to being Julie full time at work from here on out, she will push through getting my name fixed on everything that isn't a legal document. So even without having the paperwork back from the court, all the work things I really care about will now say Julie. I very nearly wept again.
So now I'm home. Tomorrow I run the Score Room for Odyssey of the Mind Regionals as David. But as soon as the score room is closed down and packed up... I come home and almost all my Dave clothes go to Salvation Army. Legally I may not be quite there yet. But in every other way, after tomorrow, there is only Julie.
And now, finally, I am weeping. With Joy! So much Joy!