21 September 2008

Compartments

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This cold. Yeah, it's all about that now. This cold, and the way my nose feels like someone poured epoxy into it and stuffed it with bro...
20 September 2008

A Cold at the Speed of Light

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Today my sinuses are more toxic than the Jersey swamps. Fell asleep for a couple of hours late this afternoon, woke up to blow my nose again...
19 September 2008

No Choice But Both

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So now I've about nine months and two and a half weeks until the surgery. So many metaphors, analogies and images present themselves to ...
16 September 2008

Boy or Girl? Black or White?

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Today a student who missed class last Thursday showed up. The first time I saw her, I took a liking to her: She seemed like an intelligent a...
14 September 2008

Passing Through

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Sometimes silly things make my day. Like the guy I passed while riding down Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. He was even more weatherbea...
13 September 2008

X and Y on a Quiet Saturday

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A slow day today, as they say. Should I complain or boast about that? Probably not. It just turned out that way, and I needed it. Why? So I ...
12 September 2008

Lunch With Bruce, 30 Years Later

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Today I went to lunch with Bruce at SoHo Natural, a restaurant around the corner from his workplace. We'd gone there once before and lik...
11 September 2008

Running Away

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This morning I pedalled to work under skies overcast with herringbone clouds that, paradoxically, posed no threat of rain. The air was pleas...
07 September 2008

After Yesterday, Being and Becoming

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What does a gender transition do to your sense of time? More to the point, does it change the way you see your past as well as your present?...
06 September 2008

Boy to Man, Man to Woman, Woman to Man, Woman to Woman

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Hanna brought us buckets and buckets of rain today. At times, you could just barely see ahead of you because the rain was so dense. But it w...
05 September 2008

Anxiety or Anger?

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Got to the luncheon for new full-time faculty members late. Real late. As in 1:30 for somethi ng that started at 12:00 and ended at 2:00. Th...
04 September 2008

4 septembre

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Monday the 1st--Labor Day--was the "unofficial" last day of summer. But today, the 4th of September, might be the first real day o...
03 September 2008

Coming Together

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Just finished teaching another class and reading some more papers. You know, it ain't so bad. OK, I know. I teach English so I ain't...
01 September 2008

Summer Ends With Coney Island?

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Labor Day. Classes have already begun, so what does this day mark? Well, according to our grandmothers' arbiters of fashion, we're n...
31 August 2008

Coming Together at the End of Summer

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Just got back from a barbecue with Millie and John. It's great to have such good friends living right across the street from me! I met M...
29 August 2008

From Passing to Passing Through

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So what happens when you're a transgender woman less than eleven months before surgery and you go into the city's most resolutely bo...