30 August 2009

Tomorrow, The First Day

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Tomorrow I will teach my very first classes in my new life. Somehow I get the feeling I will be more conscious than anyone else of that fact...
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29 August 2009

Another Meeting 30 Years Later

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Tonight I had dinner with someone I haven't seen in about 35, or maybe even 40, years. Rocky is the son of Aunt Madeline, with whom my...
27 August 2009

The Secret of A Luddite Tranny

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I've just been outed.... No, I'm not talking about an incident at school. Or an article about my dim, dark, secret, sultry life. (...
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26 August 2009

My First Day Back

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Today was my first day back at the college. I don't teach until Monday; today my department had staff development meetings. Plus, a co...
25 August 2009

Anxious About My Return

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Tomorrow I go back to school. I am feeling nervous about it, although everyone says I shouldn't. It's not as if I'm going to d...
24 August 2009

Plus La Meme Chose, Plus Ca Change

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Tonight I got off the N train at Broadway in Astoria. I figured that I had some time to wait until the bus arrived, so I stopped in Parisi ...
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22 August 2009

A New Mystery

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Early this evening I went out for a walk. I followed 34th Avenue, which intersects the street on which I live, to 21st Street, which is one...
21 August 2009

Authoritarian Genital Fixation

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My new passport arrived today, three weeks after I mailed in the application. I'm one of the last people in the world to say anything go...
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20 August 2009

Recovery Without the Telly

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For the past six weeks, I’ve been recovering from my surgery. Of course, one of the reasons why my recovery is progressing quickly and smoot...
19 August 2009

New Passport, New Journeys

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Today I got word that my new passport will arrive shortly--around Monday, the 24th, according to the State Department. Of course I am excite...
18 August 2009

Doing Nothing Is Such Hard Work

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I never knew it would take such effort to do nothing! That's one of the things I told Bruce when he asked what I've learned from my...
17 August 2009

Seven Years: No Itch, Only Change

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Seven years ago today I took my first steps toward the life I have now. It was a day very much like this one: hot, almost unbearably so. B...
15 August 2009

Stories: The Assumption and Woodstock

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Today is the Feast of the Assumption. Having gone to Catholic school, I should know what's celebrated on this date. As it turns out, the...
14 August 2009

Cut Out The Chase

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If you are a student or a former instructor of mine, please skip the next two sentences. I am reading a book I was supposed to have read in ...
13 August 2009

I Don't Want To Recruit Them; I Just Want You To Love Me

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Another visit with Dr. Jennifer. She said I'm a "poster girl for post-op recovery." Everything is healing even better than i...