Went on down to the courthouse, form and birth certificate and cash in hand. The person who actually deals with it had left early for the weekend. Drat. I left the form and certificate there, and they should be calling me up on Monday. Gotta do the criminal background check and all that, you know ( Read more... )

It's been something floating in the back of my head for a while: what will I pick for a middle name when I change it? I had a few possibilities - Emily, Elizabeth - but they didn't quite work. Other sillier ones as well; Margaret Morgaine Trauth has a certain ring to it (though it works much better with Emily as the first, which is what I would've ( Read more... )

So - that experience of thinking hey wait, I used to be a boy - I just dissected it. Something in my mind does a pronoun check, and it comes up instantly, casually female. And then a moment later, a different result comes in from a different direction, a more intellectual/experience/memory one, and that one's male ( Read more... )

Yay, I got my birth certificate just now. I can go on to the next step of name-change ( Read more... )

Hee. So I finally got my first check from American Greetings. Yay, money! Unfortunately it's made out to Margaret, rather than Paul: I haven't done the name change stuff yet.

Time to deal with that.

( links relevant to a Somerville, MA resident who was born in Louisiana... )

This was originally a lengthy comment I left on a recent entry in someone else's LJ ( Read more... )

I just counted: on Second Life, I have sixteen distinct, different avatars in my inventory. Two are ones I got handed. The rest are all my work. Some are half-finished sketches; some are in the 'depreciated' directory because they're not so good. About half of them are ones I really call "done". There's a few more, but they're slight edits, or ( Read more... )

"I'm in this fucking business for the monsters. The monsters are the main thing I love about the fantastic." - China Miéville, in an interview with Believer magazine, whose website design is vaguely smarmy in exactly the same way as McSweeny'sI think I'm in this business for the monsters, too. Last night I was hanging out at a gathering of random ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone. I was calling a wake ( Read more... )

I went out topless this morning by accident.

Twice.

I was doing laundry. When I took the first load out, I was in baggy old boy jeans and a disfavored t-shirt, nothing else - all my bras and panties were in the basket to be wasned. After I got back inside I took off the shirt; it's old, and not very comfortable against bare breasts ( Read more... )