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sistawendy) wrote2012-03-12 11:02 am
sistawendy) wrote2012-03-12 11:02 am
Nun explains self to kids, stays up too late waiting for Nibs.
I went to the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist church last night for a one-hour panel discussion about trans people. The audience was about 25 junior high school students. The format was three to five minutes for each of the five of us for a bio, then we answered questions that the kids had written on cards. (The people in charge thought the students would be too shy to ask out loud, which kind of amazes me.)
I had a grand time, and we covered a lot of ground, from violence against trans people to the risks of hormones to the meaning of "genderqueer". We had a good selection of panelists: two trans women, one mother of a trans man, one college-age genderqueer, and her trans boyfriend. The questions were right on, too. We ran ten minutes long, but we could have kept going, no problem. And the kids showed little sign of boredom, which is amazing for that age.
Nibs went on a date and didn't get home until midnight on Saturday night. Ordinarily I wouldn't mind, and I still don't mind that much, but it was time change eve and I had zappy in Tacoma the next morning. I thought she was staying the night. In fact, m'boy told me that she had told him that she might. Well, well. Nibs told me when she got home that our son misunderstood her. What she'd said was that if she stayed the night then blah blah blah.
She said she was late because needed to sober up before driving. She apologized. I do believe she's beginning to like going out at night. That's almost certainly a good thing, because it means she'll be motivated to get to Splitsville, and it'll be good for her mental health. The only thing that bothers me about it is that if her dry spell ends before mine, I'll be distinctly miffed.
I had a grand time, and we covered a lot of ground, from violence against trans people to the risks of hormones to the meaning of "genderqueer". We had a good selection of panelists: two trans women, one mother of a trans man, one college-age genderqueer, and her trans boyfriend. The questions were right on, too. We ran ten minutes long, but we could have kept going, no problem. And the kids showed little sign of boredom, which is amazing for that age.
Nibs went on a date and didn't get home until midnight on Saturday night. Ordinarily I wouldn't mind, and I still don't mind that much, but it was time change eve and I had zappy in Tacoma the next morning. I thought she was staying the night. In fact, m'boy told me that she had told him that she might. Well, well. Nibs told me when she got home that our son misunderstood her. What she'd said was that if she stayed the night then blah blah blah.
She said she was late because needed to sober up before driving. She apologized. I do believe she's beginning to like going out at night. That's almost certainly a good thing, because it means she'll be motivated to get to Splitsville, and it'll be good for her mental health. The only thing that bothers me about it is that if her dry spell ends before mine, I'll be distinctly miffed.
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*eyebrow raise*
...I need an icon that is actually an eyebrow raise.
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