February 28, 2008
It’s Been a Busy Week
No, we didn’t get stuck in some sort of black hole after returning from France, but it sure seems like it!
Seattle welcomed us last Friday and Saturday with amazing, sunny, warm (for Seattle) weather, and it was a great re-entry into the great drizzle-bank that usually is Seattle in February.
Then, after a relaxing weekend (jet lag and all), it was off to work, and work was crazy for the past few days.
Yesterday, well, yesterday was “special”. I’m not going to comment *right now* on what was going on, but I will mid-next week.
Today was just another day though, but interestingly, two more people who I had worked with before (quite a bit actually) didn’t recognize me. I’m beginning to think this is a compliment to Dr. O, and his magic FFS surgery.
Anyway, a few people have asked me (in various forms) if I was ok after the whole “Missing Michael” thing in the last post. A couple of clarifications…. what I think I was actually trying to convey was that while I feel *amazing* now, and I feel coherent as a person for the first time in my life, this new space – openly transgendered – is just fundamentally harder than it was before. Its harder for some simple stuff (its hard for me to find clothes off the rack that fit right – especially shoes and shirts – need mail order for size 13 shoes, and “tall” shirts), but I know that our new life is not as mainstream or “easy” as it was before. I recognize that this “New Deal” is harder on those around me (Anh especially) than before, and I have regrets about that.
Anyway, I haven’t gone anywhere, I’m still around, and there’s lots more to come….
M( ) 
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