Category Archives: Transition

I’ve Drunk More

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I’ve drunk more this year than in the last two years combined. I went to a dinner party a few weeks ago and have had wine with dinner a few nights and today/yesterday I went to a Super Bowl Party. I’m hanging with a new set of friends and I’m also trying to not be hung up on my past so much. So many changes in the last 8 weeks. I am such a different person.

I am not into sports. I root for both teams. I like to see people do well and am disappointed/sad for the teams when they aren’t doing well. It’s exhausting! So..I rarely watch. I went to the party because my friends invited me and it was their first party at their new place. I ate good food, I watched some commercials but couldn’t really hear any of them. Too many chattering folk. And I met many cool people. I absolutely LOVED Madonna’s half time show and am hoping that I can get a dvd burn of it from someone. That’s how awesome it was and how much I loved it. *sigh* I met a really cool, newly together, almost couple and spent the entire 2nd half talking with them outside. After the game, the crowd moved outside and uh..there was a lot of interesting sex talk and a game of truth or dare. Two of my friends (not a couple) were about to make out so my legs led me back to the living room so my eyes/mind were spared that picture. Apparently the truth or dare went on to the point where ketchup got involved. Don’t ask! I didn’t. I watched a bit of The Voice. I’ve never seen it. It was cool to watch. I may watch it more in future. I know people who DVR it.

Highlights of the night:

Talking with C & J about queer studies and gender queer identity, polyamory, love, school.

Me and another friend putting on high heels and freaking people out and making them laugh while we walked around. The ones I wore were black mid high zip up boots with thin heels. My friend had on red heels. Their boyfriend was at first not amused but then got in on the action and went to put on a two piece and some heels with a packer. There are pictures out there in the world of this somewhere but will not be shared here. Not this night. ha ha.

K. who makes the best mixed drinks. One was a Malibu, another one was vanilla vodka, lemonade, and rosewater. Yummy!

A. (the boy with the pretty green eyes) and D. for letting me rub their heads and saying that I gave good head rubs and that my hands were so soft. I also briefly rubbed two other peoples heads and got my head rubbed. My hair is matting up so it felt weird. Did I mention that I am growing a new set of dredlocks? I haven’t combed my hair in 8 weeks. Last week it started feeling crunchy and a little knotty and matting up so that’s good. It was so soft before. I wash it every day but now every other day. It’s interesting how much the texture has changed.

L and N for saying that I have perfect “fisting” hands. This conversation came up at the dinner party a week ago and they promptly bought it up tonight in front of many people. I feel pretty happy about that and to be honest sexy and more desirable. My hands are small and apparently when I fold my thumb under, the thumb bone isn’t sticking out. I’m getting offers. Drunken offers but yeh..maybe I’ll get to try it out and make some of these folk really happy :) My hands are good for more than writing, making art, piano, and sign language *winks*

Other highlights:

I woke up in my new place this morning and felt good and happy to be here. I moved yesterday and unpacked 95% of the things last night. I still have papers to organize, school/medical/financial stuff but there are no boxes and..I just really love this room. There’s space to do yoga. I’m on the 4th floor and have a great view and awesome windows that open outwards not up and done. The really high ceilings are nice. The apartment is new. Almost 3 years old. I live with a woman and her 8 year old son. The boyfriend lives downstairs and his daughter visits on the weekends. They all seem really nice. Another good thing, is that it’s only a few blocks from my old place. Yay!

I bought a new towel for my self massage I do in the morning and a toothbrush holder.

I also bought lights for my bicycle. I haven’t been able to do night bike rides for like 3 weeks because the front light went out. I must have left it on and the light wore out. I hadn’t had any money to replace it. When I moved yesterday, my friends who are staying at my old place bought my internet wireless router hub from me. Yay!

All in all it’s been a good day and good weekend. All my homework is done for the week. I finished the majority of it Friday afternoon and late last night. I have reading for my Tuesday class but I don’t really have to have the reading done for class. The teacher didn’t assign any reading. We are supposed to listen to the lectures and follow along with the book?! and I have about 40 pages to read for my Friday class. Other than that, I just have to physically show up, listen, and take a few notes.

Out for now.

Happy Monday All!

The First Day

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Happy first day of February Two-Thousand and Twelve All! This is a leap year February. We get a whole extra day to do with as we wish or..um..what we usually do on a Wednesday. Uh..the 29th is on a Wednesday. Like 4 Wednesdays from today. Wednesday is my favorite day of the week. Usually I volunteer with the kids at the Child Development Center here on campus. I did that this morning. The kids are getting so big. I was hugged a bunch, helped a few kids trace their numbers 1-5, 3 times, danced around, and got snapped at twice by the same little girl. Once for trying to help her clean up the kitchen play area in circle time and then a few minutes later she thought I was sitting in her spot. I was actually behind the circle. She just had in for me today I think. ha ha. Kids.

Wednesdays are also usually a non-school day for me. But not this semester. I have a class from 1245-1410. Not bad. I like the class and I’ve had the teacher before. We have lots of hw and lots of quizzes and this semester the class changed to partial online. 45% of our grade will be based on online classes. I’m a little put out because it didn’t say that in the course listing or when we registered. Still, that would’ve been okay. But..my studio class (I’m learning how to record audio this semester) meets on Thursday nights once a week. Then class was scheduled in the course listings as 6pm-940pm. Last Thursday was the 1st class and he told us that lab time wasn’t built into the class. He’d lecture for a little over two hours and then let us go. About 845 at the latest but we’d have to come in during the week for like an hour and a half. The last 8 weeks of the semester we can do it any time we choose. The first 7 weeks, we have to meet in groups. Groups of 4 minimum because we have a project. To cut it short, my group meets 4-530/6 on Wednesday. So..this will be a long day but a good day. Just fuller than it’s been in about two years and I’ll have to really look at my schedule to see when I can take a break and rest. A day off mid-week really is brilliant if you can manage it.

So much is going on in my life right now. School started last week. I found a new place to live this past weekend. On Monday I payed February rent and deposit but decided not to move during the week. It would be too stressful. So, I’ll pack Friday night and move Saturday morning. And hopefully sleep. I really want to sleep. My classes this semester are brilliant. I changed my major to music and I made a good choice in doing so. I have Basic Musicianship Monday and Wednesday afternoon, Intro to Music Tuesday night, Intro to the Electronic Studio Thursday night (lab to be arranged) and Friday’s I have Astronomy 101. One class a day was what I was trying for. The group project changes things a bit. Also, something totally unexpected happened this week and less week.

Okay..so last Wednesday we had an orientation for all music majors or those interested in the program. It was during the time of Basic Musicianship but my teacher let us go to that. We had to come to sign in for class and then head on upstairs to the meeting. It was very informative and just..I don’t know..the faculty was there. Not the whole staff, but 5 of them were there, including the Chair of Music Department and they are all really passionate about music and teaching and it feels like a supportive and encouraging environment. It’ll be a lot of work on my/our part as students but it’ll be good. So..we all need an instrument. I took Piano 1 and 2 last year. I took Piano because the practice room is open 7a-10p and there’s like 8 piano that non-majors can use. The class was only $36. Lessons are a lot more than that. I was talking to the chair and said I like piano but I really want to play the alto-saxophone. I just don’t have the money for one. She told me to email Prof. ____ and that he might have one. I emailed him and also spoke with him the next day. He said he had a tenor and a baritone that I could use here and he had an alto in his personal collection. On Monday I saw the Chair again and she told me that if I joined the jazz band and talked to him again he would be more inclined to let me use his alto and she was right. He gave me an add code for the jazz band class and then looked online with me to find the reeds and a mouthpiece and he’s going to start me with lessons next week or the week after. He told me to sit in for now and just listen. Yesterday was my first day doing that. It was amazing!! I went to bed and woke up with music in my head. The band class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-3. My schedule just got a lot busier but that’s cool. Time will pass no matter what and at least I’ll be playing the sax again and developing my skills as a musician. So..yay!

Gotta get going. Headed to meet with my group for the studio class. Our assignment for the next 7 weeks is to come up with a 3 minute horror theme. Compose and record. We’ll see how that goes.

Happy Wednesday everyone!