Sometimes, my weird gender stuff is really damned tiring. Most of the world is cisgender-oriented, and I'm just... not. Which can feel uncomfortably isolating sometimes ( Read more... )

Another bout of insomnia, dammit. So here's a small ramble ( Read more... )

Am very post-partum-y right now. Things that have ended for me in the last several weeks, or will be ending soon ( Read more... )

One of the movies I watched recently had a plot involving the common trope of a country boy gone city, whose family resents him for it. There's the typical accusation of how he undoubtedly thinks he's too good for his country folks now, never visits, etc ( Read more... )

Weird contrast when we got off the plane in MN: Suddenly, a heck of a lot more fellow fat folks around ( Read more... )

The biggest thing on my horizon at the moment, of course, is the fact that in 72 hours, I'll be on a plane on the way to London. Yay ( Read more... )

I just now realized that Mother's Day is the day before my surgery. I.e., the day before I say goodbye to ever bearing children. Theoretically, since my ovaries won't be affected, I could use a gestational carrier and still have bio kids, but since my stoopid eggs wouldn't get fertilized in the first place, and the fertility clinic basically ( Read more... )

In advance of my usual year-in-review post ( Read more... )

I feel like a fraud most of the time. The things I can do--writing, singing, etc.--are so easy for me that I figure I must not actually have any skill at them. I feel like what I can do is simple enough that any idiot can do it, so I'm definitely nothing special ( Read more... )

Though I feel like I've made progress in the last five years, I'm a little frustrated at the moment ( Read more... )