19 April 2009

The Present and The Moment

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Spent more time with Dominick today. We didn't do anything quite as stimulating as our visit to the Botanical Gardens the other day, but...
18 April 2009

Girls, Bikes, Kids and Ocean

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Lately, I seem to find myself talking, however briefly, with babies, toddlers and small children with greater frequency. If the kid can unde...
17 April 2009

Revisiting and Revising

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Last night I was talking with Dominick on the phone. I was recalling a time when I went with Tammy and one of her friends to a restaurant. S...
16 April 2009

Pedalling and Sleeping

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Today I took a bike ride I haven't taken in quite a while. It was unplanned: I'd orginally intended to cycle onto the Rockaway Penin...
15 April 2009

Who Should Play Transgendered People? How Sould They Be Played?

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Today I stumbled over a blog I plan to check out every chance I get. It's called "Femulate," and bills itself as "the web...
14 April 2009

Did They Ever Imagine This?

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Another rainy day in April. What else is new? Today there was a tornado watch where my parents live. Although I know I probably would have h...
13 April 2009

I Passed Two Tests Today. Do I Get $4000 for That?

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Today, like yesterday, was clear, breezy and cold for this time of year. Unlike yesterday, however, today was a day of preparing for my surg...
12 April 2009

Easter: Food and Movies Today, The Doctor Tomorrow

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Easter Sunday...My last before the surgery. It's ironic that Bruce has told me that my transition "resurrected" me. Now I'...
11 April 2009

Advice to a Cross-Dresser; The Ten Commandments

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Today I was reading an article from The Independent by Neil Straus. He described his expereince with a survivalist camp run by a couple of g...
10 April 2009

A Meeting...For What?

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Today my department chair said she wants to have "a brief meeting" with me after I return from Spring recess. Hmm.... She sent tha...
09 April 2009

Can You Get Over the Fear of Sleep?

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I can't help but to think about being under anaesthesia for my surgery. Is it odd that I'm more worried about that aspect of my surg...
08 April 2009

Spring Break; The Point Is...

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Spring recess is about to start. I can't wait. I warned my students, especially the freshmen in my composition class, that there will be...
07 April 2009

Three More Months; Strange Bedfellows

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My surgery is three months--91 days--from today. The funny thing is that today I had less of a sense than I had yesterday that some things i...
06 April 2009

One Step Closer: Where Will I Wake Up?

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One more meeting. Today my department had its penultimate meeting of this academic year. One more to go...until my surgery. It seems lately ...
05 April 2009

Palm Sunday

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Today is Palm Sunday. I can remember when this day would begin a week of going to church twice a day with my Catholic school classmates. Eve...
04 April 2009

Opening In The Wind

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"Winter's coming!" That's what Johnny, Millie's husband, exclaimed when I saw him by his car this evening. The wind wh...
02 April 2009

Changing Clothes

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Tonight I am doing yet another thing that I'm most likely doing for the last time in my current life. It's really exciting: I'm ...
01 April 2009

Sleep and Dreams

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I was just talking to Dominick. He told me I should go to bed because he was tired. Well, OK, it wasn't quite like that. He said he was ...
31 March 2009

M'illumno D'immenso

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Today looked like a spring day, but didn't quite feel the part. It may've had to do with the hint of chill in the air that turned in...