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This has potential as a prompt for some very weird art

From bcj:

Observation: A shower is a much tinier room

Observation: A shower is a much tinier room than a person would normally be comfortable being in

Theory: We could build much smaller and more efficient homes if we had them constantly spray hot water on the occupant

I don’t know…

Pros:

  • warm
  • relaxing

Cons:

  • impossible to do fucking anything
  • wrinkly skin
  • risk of drowning in your sleep
  • idk probably would be a form of torture after a while

Reflected in the chrome

I did a bunch of household cleaning over the weekend and at some point at the end of the weekend was using the sink in the bathroom and noticed my tiny, distorted reflection in the clean and shiny chrome faucet spout and my first thought was, well, look at that, I have boobs, even viewed in a weird distorted faucet reflection.

HRT is magic, is all I can say. I did not appreciate how much this would feel right.

Flo Mask

I was picking up a package today, I had one of my cuter Flo Masks on (old photo of me with it here)

Flo Mask

and one of the people working there asked me what kind it was. It’s always nice to have a friendly question even if it’s hard to say what to make of it now that nearly nobody is doing anything at all to even attempt to make the disaster any less bad even directly for their own immediate selves eggbug_pleading.

Buy chalk!

I saw this on Friday in the parking lot at Village Pond in Brown Deer when I went up there to run:

Buy Chalk

Also, I took this photo after running 10km, I guess I really do just look like this now:

Me

I dream of chemistry

Last night I dreamed that I was in some sort of mass spectrometry lab and was telling others how I got my start in protein analysis, doing protein sequencing by Edman degradation and got into an explanation of how it works, the phenyl isothiocyanate reacting with the N-terminal amino group, cleaving off the modified amino acid with trifluroacetic acid, which leaves a fresh N-terminal amine for the next cycle and the freed derivatized amino acid is then sent to an HLPC where they separate under pretty normal reverse phase conditions and show up on UV detection.

I haven’t done this in a long time now, but a girl never forgets her first protein analysis method!

Now I understand the great thing about having your own blog

It turns out I hardly have to actually write anything to spend lots of time working on my blog! I can just mess around with the formatting and fiddle with the tag display and try to get h-entry metadata added and puzzle over why things aren’t working the way I expected and basically get lost in the computer toucher thing where you constantly fiddle and compile and test and google for documents and repeat endlessly!

Coming out day

I guess this is “coming out day.” It’s a funny thing for me to think about now, after years of being very visible and now not being so visible. Now and then I think about how these days there are people I work with who may or may not know that I’m trans, I honestly don’t know if they know. That didn’t used to be a thing! I was that person with a beard who wore dresses, everyone, you know, noticed that.

I think it was last year that for the first time I consciously made the decision to go ahead and out myself to someone selling things at an art fest in order to make a comment about a trans interpretation of their items. It didn’t used to be a decision like that!

It’s also been recently dawning on me that mentioning my girlfriend now constitutes outing myself as a lesbian, which is not at all how that used to work!

I had some really fun experiences being very visible—little kids said the cutest things sometimes—but it was also stressful at times and being, as far as I can tell, basically invisible is just amazing. Even if it does lead to me pondering whether I really want to mention something to someone now and then.

Looking back at summer

In recent years of course I haven’t done many of the things I’ve usually done in the past due to the ongoing pandemic. I’d been imagining that the situation would improve in time as measures to control the disaster would be taken. Yeah, that’s sure as hell not happening. It can easily get even worse though! There’s mask bans being passed, so far I’m able to protect myself with the respirators but that might not last. Plus other diseases are taking off. May be far more dangerous to go out in the near future. I got out some this summer because who knows if there will be more chances to go out anytime soon.

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