things i love

[kaberett]

• the Discworld ConCom (seriously these people are AMAZING - like I e-mailed them last night to be all "thank you for having Mx as a default title! you're amazing! it made my day! who do I talk to about getting Msc added?" and by 8am had a "that's a trivial fix, I'll do it when I get home from work :-)" response) ♥_♥
  
• my useless lovely ex -- ♥ to you, Chris
  
• CODEINE
  
• my lovely, lovely housemates, who do not flap at me when I slide gracelessly from my washing-up-stool to the floor, but merely ask what I need, get it for me rapidly and without fuss, and then let me get on with it
  
• randomling, who has tonight held my hand through getting to grips with git, such that I will shortly be submitting HAVE JUST SUBMITTED my first DW patch since we migrated (thank you SO MUCH, sweetie ♥)
  
• making a difference to communities I'm involved with -- in this instance, identifying bugs and filing them and documenting things I've done where existing documentation doesn't cover questions I had (and got answered); and adding more stuff to Things Real Dreamwidth Programmers Do while I was at it; and vaginapagina, of course, and all the stuff I've done with that today
  
• HYPERBOLE AND A HALF WHICH JUST UPDATED AND IS GOING TO UPDATE AGAIN TOMORROW HOLY SHIT
  
• using my words and having it go okay
  
• all of my fantastic friends. seriously, you guys are so great, I cannot even
  
• being in a position to be all DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT I WANT RIDICULOUSLY HOMOSEXUAL HIPSTER CLOTHES and, um, I am so sorry, I now own ridiculously homosexual hipster clothes i'm not sorry at all BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH: starting to put together how I want to look, as part of who I want to be, and (1) not feeling bad or superficial or shallow for wanting to feel comfortable and at ease in my body and (2) being in a position, financially, to act on that

life. sometimes it's pretty good. I am much, much more okay than I was, and I'm not sure why, but there we go, I'm not knocking it. ♥ (Actually, I suspect some of it is that an awful lot was swilling around in my head and it desperately wanted out? And then I a poem and I felt better, so.)

Comments

[rysmiel]

I am so very glad to hear all this is good. *hug* Thank you for letting us know.

(Also about to go do All The Travel. More news in twelve days or so.)

[sorrillia]

*Wonders aimlessly what it means for clothes to be homosexual, and concludes that your pants are attracted to other pairs of pants, but not at all to your shirts.*

[steorra]

:-)

[macey]

omg h&h is updating? so glad she's ok

[kaberett]

YES I KNOW RIGHT

it, uh

I checked up on her on social media periodically? it sounds like she has had An Rough Time but is still in one piece, more-or-less? and as though we're going to get more of the deets tomorrow/later today

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Thanks for the heads-up - I've been checking back maybe once every couple of months, so it might have been a while before I'd seen it.

(Is she still "she"? I took the post title to mean not, but maybe I'm jumping to conclusions.)

[kaberett]

Oh, huh, good point. I assumed it meant "transitional period" rather than gender transition. I will edit post to be gender-neutral accordingly...

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

Actually I think I mis-parsed the title anyway. I thought it was a post that comes before a big significant "Post-Transition Post". But I think it's actually a "transition-post" that comes before the main "post". I now think "transition" doesn't apply to anything except today's post. BICB still W.

[kaberett]

oh, wait, I can't edit comments ;) But, yes, good call, thank you. I'm gently amused at my assumptions that Everyone Is Cis Unless Shown Otherwise...

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

Wasn't trying to out-awareness you or anything. I'd normally be much more likely to make that sort of assumption. It was just I thought the post WAS showing otherwise - but I now think I misread it, see above comment.

[kaberett]

No, absolutely! And it's okay, I don't feel like you are - but I do think that it's sometimes REALLY USEFUL to have people go "erm, have you considered", because sometimes I really haven't. So thank you :-)

[pipisafoat]

I had that same thought! But reading the actual post made me think probably that thought was inaccurate. Time will tell, perhaps.

[naath]

OMG NEW HYPERBOLE AND A HALF!

[kaberett]

YES

[gwendraith]

Glad life is pretty good sometimes. It seems you have good friends and they are priceless. I hear you on the codeine. I'm taking up to 8 x 30mg a day on some days.

[kaberett]

:-)

Good stuff, isn't it!