Comments | misguidedsadist: .today has been so up and down.

misguidedsadist

.today has been so up and down.

Apr 08, 2008 16:33

.first of all, i rode my bike to work. and it was fabulous. i love it. pictures will be coming soon for sure. they are a purple Peugoet. around 20 years old or so. with a generator light and everything. haven't figured out what gender [if any] they are, so i'll stick to gender neutral pronouns for now :) oh, and if anyone has ideas for a name, i'll ( Read more... )

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cinderellasdead April 9 2008, 01:27:23 UTC

i name thyne biek 'cyclotron'!!! i'll accept my baked goods WHEN YOU COME VISIT ME!!! :p

ppl are weird about language. when i was working in sudbury, i used to practice my french at work with a girl i went to school with, and you would not believe how many ppl told me i was being rude by not speaking in a language that they could understand. i can see how it might bother them to a point, but a) i wasn't speaking to/about them; b) i was speaking FRENCH!!! one of our national languagaes! holy crap! then again... they never seemed to mind when one of their customers needed a francophone to speak to...

i love eharing other ppl speak their language! i might not understand it, but that's not their fault :p

misguidedsadist April 9 2008, 01:37:25 UTC

omg. i love anything with 'tron' at the end. that's so a possibility.

ps. thanks thanks THANKS for mentioning the GST check in your post. After I read it, I jumped up and checked the mail. Sure enough it was there :)

cinderellasdead April 9 2008, 03:58:16 UTC

*yayayayayay*

so now you HAVE to go with cyclotron. a) cuz it rocks, b) cuz i thought it up, c) cuz it was the 1st lj recommendation (huzzah) d) CUZ THEN YOU OWE ME HOME MADE GOODIES THAT YOU MUST DELIVER YOURSELF!!! HAAHAHAHAH!!!

cinderellasdead April 9 2008, 01:28:52 UTC

ps: i like your icon :) and apparently can't spell 'bike' or 'thine'. haha :p

livelovewrite April 9 2008, 03:06:08 UTC

T has made me more assertive. At first, I was a little freaked out about it, but now I feel pretty good about it. The hormones make me feel more calm when I let people know I need something, or that something isn't cool. And I feel a lot less anxiety about making such requests. It's not that I don't care about other people's feelings; I just find that I no longer put everyone else ahead of myself.

Now, that's a different thing from the "short fuse" aspect of T. If something really makes me mad, I feel my anger flash, and then fade away rather quickly. I obviously don't act on the flash of anger. The assertiveness - that's a whole other thing. It comes more out of a place of self-respect and self-care than out of a place of anger.

I think it's great that you confronted your co-worker's insensitivity head-on. He will respect you more for it, hopefully.

schoolboyxcrush April 9 2008, 15:35:23 UTC

I think that it's good to be assertive, whether it's the T or not.

The other day, a coworker at Directions said that I should do something because I was "a guy" and I reminded her that "I wasn't really a guy" (she is someone who knows about my gender identity). And she still went with it, so I told her straight out: "I'm trans. Don't refer to me as a guy."

It felt empowering.