some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. I am continuing to really enjoy all of the changes testosterone is making to my body. My voice has deepened some more. My legs and belly are getting slowly hairier, in ways that I'm mostly not noticing at all, but occasionally I do and then I'm startled-surprised-pleased; I'd expected to be indifferent-to-mildly-negative about increased fuzz, and really wasn't anticipating this degree of quiet happiness about it.
   
2. Bog mummy continues the best hairstyle I have yet tried for Getting Labwork Done with minimal sensory argh, and I can just about get it brushed & back up again in the time it takes to get from Oakwood to Finsbury Park (where I change from the Piccadilly to the Victoria, because it's very slightly faster and, more importantly, it means I only have to deal with one lift at Green Park.)
   
3. I spent a bunch of today thoroughly settling in with Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), during the sitting-and-waiting parts of lab, and I continue astonished by how immediate and vivid and real all of her writing feels.
   
4. Paper continues trundling along; need to make a few more tweaks following feedback from primary supervisor, and then we'll be circulating around (potential) co-authors early next week to solicit feedback/comment/etc. (If they have substantive contributions they're welcome on board; if they mostly just want a bit of a discussion in passing they will get gratefully acknowledged.) I'm feeling pretty good about the shape of the science there.
   
5. I have been really enjoying your collective enthusiasm for the What Do I Even Do All Day post. <3
   
6. We've had a run of excellent sunsets: good illuminated clouds yesterday, and then today the sky was completely clear and the colour gradient to the west was stunning.
   
7. I've taken to carrying a small pot of rosebuds with me, in addition to the travel mug, so that I can have a Fancy Warm Drink when out & about should the mood take me, which is how I came to spend some of my afternoon drinking rose tea and wrangling references while on campus. It is exceedingly pleasant.
   
8. A changed the bedlinen, night before last, and I have been very much enjoying - and am now very much anticipating - curling up and savouring it, with bonus points for I Didn't Have To Make It Happen.
   
9. Past!Alex made me lots of treats: dinner was a slice of toast with peanut butter, from this morning's bread, plus the end of the butternut squash risotto I made earlier in the week, plus a scoop of the apricot-and-soured-cream ice cream. Thank you, past me. <3
   
10. Dinner with wonderful ex-housemate C last night, post-lab, at Sagar, where I did not get the paper dosa but did nevertheless eat dosa; heading to Kew with her tomorrow to spend some more time looking at Chihuly.

Comments

[shanaqui]

I closed all my tabs because overwhelm, but I meant to say that your labwork post makes me wistful for more labwork of my own. Being in the OU instead of trad. university deprived me of much chance, but I had that week class of it and I ADORED IT, doing gel electrophoresis and setting our own gels was SO SATISFYING and yeah. I liked it too!

[kaberett]

<3 The OU did all the trace element concentration measurements I'm using and I am very fond of them! And also go you for self-care.

[sfred]

<3
(and same about increasing fuzz)

[vass]

1. Yay!
7. This is both typical of you and delightfully Aesthetic.

[lilysea]

I am continuing to really enjoy all of the changes testosterone is making to my body. My voice has deepened some more. My legs and belly are getting slowly hairier, in ways that I'm mostly not noticing at all, but occasionally I do and then I'm startled-surprised-pleased; I'd expected to be indifferent-to-mildly-negative about increased fuzz, and really wasn't anticipating this degree of quiet happiness about it.

Hurray for gender confirming / gender euphoria! ^_^

I am pleased / happy for you! ^_^

[divulge]

<3