I'm probably still losing weight. And it's still not good. Food still tastes right -- I'm glad that's not the issue -- but I can't eat much at a time. I don't have the energy to eat more than once or twice a day. I'm spending a lot time coughing, feeling like I'm going to throw up, actually throwing up. It's all as glamorous and exciting as ( Read more... )

I've got a new post up at FWD/Forward, I'd Rather Be Dead. It's long, and a bit grisly.

Cross-posted at FWD/Forward.

Today, 20 November 2009, marks the Eleventh Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. It's the day that we set aside to commemorate the lives of people murdered due to trans hate and discrimination and prejudice. This year, we know of one hundred sixty-two persons who have been killed because they were ( Read more... )

I have now a machine I'd been hoping for. My grandmother bought me a notebook and it's fucking shiny. I'm very grateful. So now I can type (and *coughplaygamescough*) in bed. Hopefully this will translate into actually-completed stories and shit. Some blog posts here and at FWD.

And not too much handcrampery for me.

Cross-posted at FWD/ForwardI actually had a really good experience with a physician recently. Like outstanding. With a specialist even -- an endocrinologist, so if anyone in the northeast Texas general area needs one, I can recommend him without hesitation. I was kind of nervous; I'd seen an endo before when I was starting my transition but stopped ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from FWD/Forward.

On the way home from work the other day, the classical music station in Dallas, WRR 101.1*, played a really good performance of Beethoven’s Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise". It's pretty, of course, which is all it needs to be. But every performance (and every work of art and every published document ( Read more... )

Over at FWD/Forward, I've got a shiny new post up on one of my favorite things to rant about. Intelligence is a hateful concept and an ableist one and I want to destroy it.

We've got a fucking awesome comments section, too.

Dear Ragnar Tørnquist and Everyone Else at Funcom,

I got your email about The Secret World. I signed up for a chance to participate in the beta. I love the concept. And y'all are the folks who did The Longest Journey, after all. Clearly, you know a thing or two about making games ( Read more... )

I've been remiss with the posting lately. Partly it's just the Polanski week was difficult and I kind of had to get away and recover some. The fibromyalgia has been very bad (more about this later) and so there have not been so many spoons available to do stuff. Webcomics fell off first, then video games, and then LJ. I've been trying to do ( Read more... )

lounalune pointed out that the language in one of my Polanski series posts was exclusionary towards people with mental illness. I've changed the wording and made a note on the post itselfIn less immediately obvious fucking up, I need to rebuild a character I'm working on for a game. In my original characterization I'd tied the character's (highly negative ( Read more... )