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Over Thai food with the latex gang last night, someone brought up eternal internet questions: what, if anything, is the difference between a taco and a sandwich? What's the difference between a cupcake and a muffin?

I said that somebody needs to make muffcakes, or maybe cuppins. The cis women didn't find that funny.

I told them about gingersnatch cookies, the ones with an agenda* that traumatize gay boys. It's probably for the best that I don't know how to bake and I'm not inclined to learn. Otherwise I'd bake a lot of gingersnatch cookies.

Bonus: years after buying a couple of my latex dresses, I can fill them out in the bust.

*They were all different "skin" tones, shapes, and degrees of icing, no two alike. The baker definitely made a point with them. And of course, they were delicious.

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

Ganked from

cupcake_goth.

My bag is a black Coach Sutton Hobo bag, worn with the long strap because I'm tall. What's in my bag?

Sunglasses. I even wore them today.
Tissues.
Stickers I designed that say, "RACISTS ARE TRAITORS".
Lipstick: MAC Viva Glam 3.
Lip balm, most likely from PCC.
A black hair band.
Ear plugs.
My key ring, including a tiny Leatherman multi-tool and pepper spray.
Wallet.
MAC Studio Fix compact, shade NW2.0.
My glasses case. (I'm wearing my glasses right now.)
Hand sanitizer. I ride mass transit, yo.
A pen with the QANTAS logo.
My iPhone 8 in a Pride flag skin.

Current Mood: amused

Ganked from

trystbat:

How old are you?
51, baybee, and feeling pretty good about it. I take care of myself and it's helped. Do I have everything I want in life? Not quite, but as a college housemate from China once told me, the meaning of life is struggle.

Tattoos?
Negative. The only design I would ever seriously consider is like what

cupcake_goth has on her upper back: big ornate black butterfly wings. Because trans and badass.

Ever hit a deer?
No, but I've come close once or twice. I'm hoping never to do that.

Ridden in an ambulance?
Another thing I'm hoping never to do.

Sang karaoke?
Shyeah! My faves? "Sodomy" from Hair, "Over At the Frankenstein Place" from RHPS, and "Chains Of Love" by Erasure.

Ice skated?
Nope. Florida girl.

Ridden a motorcycle?
I did ride bitch once with a cousin. I'm hoping to do same in a Pride parade sooner or later.

Stayed in hospital?
Yup, for sex reassignment surgery.

Skipped school?
No. I actually liked school.

Last phone call?
My son. I don't remember what about, though. It was pretty mundane, I'm sure.

Last text from?
My son again. He had to tell me that the shutdown was over. He's all about the news, and he usually texts me about especially noteworthy events.

Watched someone die?
No. ETA: No humans. I did watch my dog of 14 years get put down, though.

Pepsi or Coke?
Coke, but I don't drink it that often.

Favorite pie?
Tough question. I'll go with cherry, followed closely by key lime.

Favourite pizza?
Margherita. I'm all about the vera pizza napoletana.

Favourite season?
I'm an escapee from Florida living in Seattle, so SUMMER! Screw the outerwear, show that skin, and fire up the late night barbecue.

Broken bones?
Yeah. Left ulna, left pinky, left metatarsal, and possibly left hip - opinions of the X-ray varied for that last one. They all sucked. Did you know that when you break a bone, the sound reaches your ears by way of the rest of your skeleton? That's icky. ETA: I cracked a rib at my first Burn, too.

Received a ticket?
Yes, including once when I was en femme but not yet living as a woman. No fun.

Favorite color?
Green.

Sunset or sunrise?
Another hard question. I do love watching the sun set from Phinney Ridge, but I also love watching it rise from my bike on the Green Lake trail. I'll have to go with sunset, though, because sometimes I have to sleep through sunrise.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Erasure, "Chains Of Love"

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Leave a word, any word, in the comments below, and I will tell you a fact about myself relating to that word.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Beatles, "Octopus's Garden"

Reply to this post with ~~"WARSHEEP!"~~ "GIFs rule" and I will pick three of your icons for you to talk about in your own journal; please then keep the meme going by making this offer on your post.

I got tagged by

ironymaiden, so here goes:

I use this for postscripts and other addenda, because it looks as if I'm saying "Oh yeah!" What I was really saying was "No, no, no." I don't remember what about. This picture was taken around Halloween of 2006, years before I began my Gender Switcheroo, while I was hanging out in front of the late, lamented Vogue on 11th.

ETA: This is my Suffragette costume, based - a little anachronistically, for the US - on an 1884 pattern. The sash, made from a wedding dress skirt, says "VOTES FOR WOMEN".

FFED stands for Funniest Friends' Entry of the Day. I usually use this icon in comments as an award that I infrequently bestow - sometimes more than once a day - on entries that I think are funny. Once in a purple moon I'll use it on one of my own entries that I think is funny. The style of this picture is ganked from the graphic on They Might Be Giants' LP Flood.

This is a detail from the 18th century-style corset, part of the Blue Confection for those who recall, which is an outfit that I wore in a photoshoot by

staxxy way back in 2002. Since it's blue, I use it for entries and comments that are sad.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: the dining table at my lake place
Current Music: TMBG, "New York City"

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cupcake_goth.

1. Do you make your bed everyday? Hah! Hardly ever.

2. What's your favorite number? 6.

3. Dream Job? Mad scientist, or mad technologist, or mad linguist.

4. If you could, would you go back to school? I think so, if only to learn how to pronounce all those marks in Vietnamese.

5. Can you parallel park? Yup. I get regular practice in my neighborhood.

6. A job you had which people would be shocked to know you had? I've worked for a peanut breeder. I was Dr. Whoopee for six dozen plants.

7. Do you think aliens are real? Absolutely. The universe is to big for them not to exist. The question is, how close are they? We'll have to look for them because they have lots of good reasons not to want contact.

8. Can you drive a stick shift? Yes, and I kind of miss having one, even with all the hills around here.

9. Guilty Pleasure? The cheezier sorts of electronic music, fetish fashion.

10. Tattoos? No. I have yet to come across a design that I simply must have, and I'm still spending my body mod money on electrolysis.

11. Favorite color? Green, saturated.

12. Things people do that drive you crazy? Bigotry. Flakiness. Relying overmuch on excuses.

13. Phobia? Not really. Heights can give me butterflies, a little, but walking across the Golden Gate Bridge was fun.

14. Favorite childhood game? Hide & seek, duh.

15. Do you talk to yourself? Waaay too much.

16. Do you like doing puzzles? Like, jigsaw? Sure! It's one of my favorite things to do with the kids at Lambert House.

18. Tea or Coffee? Tea, mainly. I like coffee, but it makes me want to kill people.

19. First thing you remember you wanted to be when you grew up? A chemist.

20. If you were told you can only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Peanut butter cookies.

21. List your major scars: My left index finger from an onion-cutting accident, and a matched pair underneath my pubic hair from sex reassignment surgery. In both areas, the nerves didn't quite heal completely.

22. List continents you've NOT visited: Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.

23. What dead person (non-relative) would you most like to ask something? This is hard. Jesus Christ, maybe.

24. What one thing would you change about your physical self? This is easy: I'd like to look less mannish, everywhere.

25. Have you ever seen a current or former president in person? No.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Blondie, "Call Me"

Ganked from

solarbirdy. I couldn't resist.

Tattoos: None
Surgeries: One, to install girl bits.
Broken bones: Yes
Shot a gun: Yes
Quit a job: Yes
Flown on a plane: Yes
100+miles in car: Yup. Gainesville, FL to Seattle, WA, baybee. I used to go up & down the east coast, too.
Gone zip lining: No
Watched someone give birth: Yes!
Watched someone dying: Not in the conventional sense.
Ridden in an ambulance: No
Been to Canada: Yes
... to Europe: Yes, France & Spain.
... to Washington D.C: Yes
... to Florida: Dude, I grew up there.
... to Colorado: No
... to Mexico: No. I'm not counting any airports.
... to Las Vegas: Yes
Sang karaoke: Yes
Had a pet: Yes
Been downhill skiing: Yes
Gone snowboarding: No
Ability to read music: Yes, but I'm not a good sight reader.
Rode a motorcycle: Yes
Rode a horse: Yes
Stayed in a hospital: Yes
Driven a stick shift: Yes
Ride in Police Car: No
Driven a Boat: Yes, motorboat.
Eaten Escargot: Yes. Pretty similar in texture to cephalopods, as you might expect.
Seen a UFO: No
Been on a Cruise: No
Run out of Gas: Yes
Eat Sushi: Yes
Seen a Ghost: No

Current Mood: amused

Long time no meme! Gosh, it's been years. Ganked from

sheistheweather:

USING ONE WORD ONLY, answer these! It's not easy.
1. Where is your cellphone? Nightstand
2. Your hair? Black
3. Your dad? Dead
4. Your other half? Nonexistent
5. Your favorite food? Roquefort
6. Your favorite color? Green
7. Your favorite drink? Beer
8. Fear? Violence
9. Favorite shoes? Fluevogs
10. Favorite way to relax? Walk
11. Your mood? Tired
12. Favorite place? Hill
13. Where were you last night? Kremwerk
14. Something that you aren't? Cisgender :)
15. Muffins? OK
16. Vacation spot? Playa
17. Where you grew up? Florida
18. Last thing you ate? Spuds
19. What are you wearing? Leggings
20. Your TV? Nonexistent
21. Your pets? Violets
22. Life? Good

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: a blue IKEA bouncy chair in my living room

A- Age: 47
B- Biggest Fear: Hmm. Either rats or poverty, I'm not sure which.
C- Current Time: 1542
D- Drink you last had: Diet Coke.
E- Easiest Person to Talk to: Either Ms. Astronomical or the Siberian Siren. Queerness & femaleness help.
F- Favorite Song: Just one?! Orbital, "Impact".
G- Ghosts, are they real: No, but memories are.
H- Hometown: Gainesville, FL.
I- In love with: She knows 'cause I told her.
J- Jealous of: Way too many cisgender women.
K- Killed Someone? You're not cleared for that information.
L- Last time you cried?: Sunday. It often happens just before shot night.
M- Middle Name: Catherine, because I liked it.
N- Number of Siblings: 2
O- One Wish: Lasting peace, prosperity, and health for everyone.
P- Person who you last called: My son.
Q- Question you're always asked: Any of several trans-related questions. Oddly, not "Have you had the surgery?"
R- Reason to smile: The sun is out today. :)
S- Song last sung: "Dinner Bell", They Might Be Giants.
T- Time you woke up: 0530 for SCIENCE! And no, I wasn't masturbating.
U- Underwear Color: White with violet & lavender floral print.
V- Vacation Destination: Black Rock City, NV.
W- Worst Habit: [redacted for being too gross]
X- X-Rays you've had: Teeth, left wrist, left foot, pelvis.
Y- Your favorite food: Marzipan. Honorable mentions: Roquefort cheese, Russian halva.
Z- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn, but just barely.

Current Mood: guilty
Current Music: Michael Mayer & Reinhard Voigt, "Transparenza"

My bucket list, inspired by

bork:

London. Ride the Tube, hit the Tate, get my groove on at Fabric, and leave a ballpoint pen stuck in Douglas Adams's grave.
Tokyo. Wear my best Jilliwear to Harajuku on a Sunday and inflict my rusty Japanese on the locals.
Speaking of foreign languages, learn Vietnamese, including how to pronounce all those diacritical marks. Use this knowledge to order pho in Hanoi.
Do lunch with Liz Wright, sex educator and Beaver extraordinaire, at Katz's Deli in New York City where she lives.
Speaking of groove, go to the ~~Detroit Electronic Music Festival~~ Movement Festival in Detroit.
Drive across the US with my son - after he gets his license. Stop at cool places along the way.
Acquire mad art-fabrication skills.
Make an art project for Burning Man, for some value of "art".
Find Ms. Right, which necessarily implies that I'm her Ms. Right.
Big, extravagant, gay wedding. In a dress this time, dammit. Yeah, I've got it picked out.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"

You comment, I give you an age and you respond to the meme questions with what applied to you back then, and what's true now.

eeyorerin gave me 20.

I lived in: Watermargin Cooperative, 103 McGraw Place, Ithaca, NY. That's right: I was a small-town Southern geek boy in a house full of Ivy League hippies and pinkos. That house was where I discovered the joys of weatherstripping, the New York Times, and generally being social. I remember it fondly. I wish I'd discovered it sooner. I'm still in touch with one person from those days; unsurprisingly, there's a whole colony of them in the Bay Area.

I drove: a 1979 Cutlass Cruiser station wagon that was in the process of acquiring dents from two states and the District of Columbia. Water collected in the doors, which meant that mildew grew in the car and eventually made the fabric on the ceiling come unglued. I did a good enough job of stapling it back up that people sometimes took a few minutes to notice that it wasn't factory work.

I was in a relationship with: Lynne, who was a girl (?) from downstate ten years older than I was. I did a really poor job of breaking up with her.

I feared: people finding out about my transgender urges, creeping apathy about school (which was to get much worse in grad school), the crazy hard math in my signal processing course.

I worked at: a Beltway bandit called BDM in the summer down in DC. That would have been the second of three summers I worked for them, and my experiences there are worth a post of their own: wearing ties, seeing the wormy underbelly of defense contracting and DC in general, riding Metro, and meeting other trans people for the first time.

I wanted to be: a hotshot computer geek. Enh. I'm paying the bills, and even occasionally having fun at it.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Blue Scholars, "Still Got Love"

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I went to Burning Man for my 40th birthday. Yeah, my birthday's in January and Burning Man starts in August, but it was easily the best birthday present I ever gave myself.

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I'd follow the guidelines of the International Astronomical Union: the name of the star followed by a lower case letter. If the planet is the nth one discovered around that star, the letter is the n+1st letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" is unused to eliminate confusion with the star itself. For example, Gliese 581 g.

Let's make it easy for people to search databases, shall we?

Current Mood: anal

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How much money? The price of a Burning Man ticket, gear, water, food, and transpo. About $1000 total, because I don't have that much gear of my own. Yet.

Current Mood: smartassed
Current Location: my faux-Persian rug in Lhasa
Current Music: Banco de Gaia, "Last Train To Lhasa"

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'79 Olds Cutlass Cruiser wagon - The Moldmobile, so named because the door panels collected water and allowed the ceiling to mildew. The fabric up there came unstuck, so I stapled it. I did a good enough job that people often took a long time to realize that it wasn't factory equipment. With dents from two states and D.C. I drove it from Florida to Arkansas to Albuquerque to L.A. to San Francisco to here with everything I owned, and I still had a clear view out the back. Happy days.

'93 Saturn SL2 - The Mighty Little Saturn. After the Moldmobile, the Mighty Little Saturn seemed tiny. My first new car, the car I drove Nibs to Powell's in on a date, and the first car to carry my son.

'97 Toyota Camry - The Anonymobile. Nibs & I had to learn the plate number (572 HLY) to keep from trying to break into other people's otherwise identical cars. It served us well, though.

'06 Toyota Prius - The Sanctimobile. I drove the family down to Santa Cruz with it, and we came back up through Sonoma & the redwoods. Five hundred miles on a tank can sure make you stiff, but that was a fabulous trip. The backup camera is a godsend for parking in Seattle for clubbing. Obama bumper stickers in Latin & Hebrew script.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: the Abbey office

If I had a warning label, what would it say?

I thought of "May change sex without warning", but I've already given plenty of warning.

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: Shangri La
Current Music: Orbital, "The Girl With the Sun In Her Head"

Posted early in the day because I just can't wait.

Egg nog!
My son's glow-in-the-dark squeaky octopus, bought at Archie McPhee's.
Saving the best for last: my son and I are flying to Florida early Tuesday morning. (Nibs is staying here for money & puppy reasons.) I'll get to see my mom & Brunette Sister for the first time in over two years, and Strawberry Blond Sister for the first time in over six years. M'boy is going to have a whopping four cousins to play with. I'll miss the snow and perpetual work emergencies as I miss having an extra hole in my head.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: the Abbey office
Current Music: Orbital, "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head"

Riz Rollins. When he's on the decks I can't not move at least part of my body, like my head (which makes drinking difficult), or my right index finger.
The big red stretch velvet dress, which is perfect for sub-freezing weather, fabulous, and PGDFF*.
Driving to Re-bar & back was easy peasy. No ice, just compacted snow.
My 20-eyelet Docs. So versatile, so warm, so stompy.
Free mix CDs, even if I don't like them, and I like the one I picked up last night.
My own work ethic: checking mail on a Saturday morning just saved me much trouble & embarassment.

*For you non-MOOers, that stands for Pretty GodDamn Fucking Festive, pronounced "pig duff".

Current Location: the Abbey office
Current Music: the free mix CD from Re-bar - Dan Deck, Donovan, Michael Manahan

Mein deutsch Maschine, my Pfaff 1122 sewing machine.
My aluminum snow shovel that a) is light and b) my son can leave out in the snow without repercussions.
Carrie Fisher's memoir Wishful Drinking.
Having a serious bug turn out to be much easier to reproduce & fix than I expected.
Nibs' not being too freaked about my plan to groove to Riz at Re-bar tonight.
Watching the Puppigrrl's tail go higher than it has in a while when we went for a brief, unplanned walk in the snow.

Current Location: the Abbey office
Current Music: Orbital, "The Box, part 2"

My boss & co-workers are not maniacal enough to attempt a suicidal commute much less expect me to do the same.
On a related note, telecommuting. That it works when everybody and his brother is trying to do it is even more impressive if you've ever tried to run an online service.
Actually being productive from home. I'm that good.
Going on a lunchtime walk in the snow with my boy to see if 405 was a parking lot.
It wasn't even close to being a parking lot, which is good because I want to use it tomorrow night.
The cute! It burns!
Plan for tonight: toasted pumpkin seeds and setting grommets.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: the Abbey office
Current Music: Common Market, "Connect For"

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