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- October 6th, 2008
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An emotional morning
I burst into tears this morning as I prepared breakfast for Miso and Farmie. It’s amazing how fast and how suddenly a wave of emotion can crash over me and then I am trying with all my might to let the feelings pass through unobstructed. I allo
- October 5th, 2008
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Yes that’s right, it’s my birthday
I’ve never been one to be shy or secretive about my favorite holiday of the year. I have little to no idea of why I’ve always felt so strongly and excited about this day, but I do. I’m also not embarrassed about my age and likely wi
- October 3rd, 2008
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- October 2nd, 2008
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- October 1st, 2008
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Happy Birthday, Dad
Happy birthday, old man. You sure are old, aren’t you? I’m glad you’re still around, though, and I hope you have many years ahead of you and that you find many simple joys in your day to days. I know that the drama and the responsib
- September 30th, 2008
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- September 29th, 2008
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Head in a thick cloud
There’s a wide open space between my brain and my skull that’s all filled up today with a thick cloud. My eyes are heavy and hollow. My day has been an endless succession of staring problems, but fortunately I’ve not been caught in
- September 28th, 2008
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Chore day
Today was absolutely chore day, with a good helping of football watching to make all the housework tolerable. I can almost sit back and relax now, except for the oatmeal cookies baking in the oven. Agent and I typically find a new place to live every
- September 27th, 2008
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- September 26th, 2008
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I wanted to
I wanted to write everyday but it’s hard to get into the rhythm again. It is easier since I can post from my iPhone but I still feel at a loss. How important is it that a post have a single, discernable theme? Is it okay to just ramble like I&#
- September 25th, 2008
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On a date
Agent and I are on a date, wandering around downtown Portland. I’m feeling satisfied and complete. ShareThis
- September 24th, 2008
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Refactor this
I’m pretty busy at work. I’ve taken on the task of refactoring code that I wrote last year that was a refactoring of code that had existed for a long time. When I performed the initial rewrite, I was extremely careful, as I had a very lim
- September 23rd, 2008
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A Photo Meme
I’ve never done a meme before and I don’t know how to pronounce meme. In my head I think “mimi”, which is the name of one of my aunts on my mom’s side. Anyway, Barney is unknowingly making me do this, and I will gladly m
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This is Aikido
This is [the first part of] my girlfriend rocking her Aikido test at Portland Aikikai. I’ll be posting the rest tonight. Agent totally picked the background music. ShareThis
- September 22nd, 2008
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Agent does Aikido
Agent just sailed through her fourth queue Aikido test. Thirty Aikido students (and masters) watched from the mat as she performed every technique with confidence, determination, and skill. I am so proud to have a girlfriend who is so obviously and c
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I feel funny
The season turned suddenly over the weekend here in the great Pacific Northwest. Just a week ago I was actually wearing shorts (which never happens cause I hate shorts). The sun was blazing and people were talking about trips to the river and camping
- September 21st, 2008
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I. don’t. know.
Have you seen Baby Mama? If you have not seen this most fabulous of fabulous movies, you must amend this horribly desperate situation as soon as possible. You will especially enjoy my new favorite movie if you are a) a woman, b) easy to laugh out lou
- September 19th, 2008
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But wait, there’s more
Just when I thought I had said everything there was to say, more things happen I just have to share. First of all, thanks to Just Out, I just won a pair of tickets to see Maroon 5 tomorrow night at the Clark County Amphitheatre. I am so excited to te
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Something else that helps
One more thing before I get to work. All that frustration with the political state of this country is also quelled by the fact that there’s a big ol’ butch lesbian being all smart on MSNBC and I, like Dorothy Surrenders, think that Rachel
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If you’ve got something to say, why don’t you say it
So many of my ideas lately have been attached to songs. I’ll start thinking about something and the next thing I know, I have some song stuck in my head that I haven’t heard in years. This morning, I was wondering at the amount of informa
- September 16th, 2008
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Things to do
The most important thing to do is to immediately donate to Bitch. Bitch needs $40,000 before October 15th. I squeezed out 25 bucks. Then, take the survey on transgender discrimination (if you’re transgender or gender-nonconforming). It’s
- September 13th, 2008
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Been caught stealing
I just watched someone be handcuffed outside Nordstrom on Broadway. He was a young guy with a beat up Nordstrom bag that was probably full of stolen items. But maybe it was a shoplifting drill, who am I to say? There are a bunch of questions I’
- September 11th, 2008
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Me and the Practice of Yoga
I tried Yoga for the first time about a year ago. Not just one, but two house guests during the summer had, with great enthusiasm, inspired me to give it a go. It couldn’t have been any easier to get started, either. There are free Yoga classes
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- September 5th, 2008
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I am adopted
When I was born, my biological mother was too young to be able to care for me and finish growing up herself. Her older sister took me to live with her new husband when I was a toddler and they eventually adopted me. My circumstances were explained to
- September 4th, 2008
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10 Reasons It’s Awesome to be Queer
We all know it’s great to be queer. Almost every day, I feel a surge of happiness and gratitude that I get to live my life exactly the way I want to. I wish this happiness for everyone, and so I present my 10 reasons it’s awesome to be qu
- August 27th, 2008
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Using Gaydar for Good
After almost 15 years as a gay person who naturally seeks out other gay people, I would consider myself an expert when it comes to spotting the inherent queerness in others. I’ve had this intuitive service running as a background process for a
- August 26th, 2008
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And that’s the end of that
I gave the idea of growing out my hair everything I could muster. I saved up a lifetime of confidence to make it through 8 months of bad hair. I wore a hat and styled it every which way that was possible with this frizzy mess. Don’t get me wron
- August 23rd, 2008
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Mississippi in the Afternoon
Agent gets a comic book. I sit in the shade again. I love my girlfriend. ShareThis
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Morning in Mississippi
Agent favorably compared her foamy latte from Fresh Pot to Batdorf and Bronson in Olympia. I drank a berry juice of deliciousness and admired the bikes. ShareThis
- August 21st, 2008
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Interview with Agent
Q: How much do you love Farmer? A: A lot. Q: What do you love about Farmer? A: Her face. Cute fuzzy face. Q: What is Farmie doing right now? A: Farmie is sleeping on the velvet dog bed filled with memory foam. Q: Does she like it? A: It appears that
- August 19th, 2008
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Camping is Fun[ny]
Camping is fun because it is so very unpredictable. All I knew, really, was that I wanted to go camping somewhere around Mt. Hood. I tried doing all kinds of research on the Internet (that usually knows so much, but sometimes knows so shockingly litt
- August 16th, 2008
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Looking for the Good Stuff
I can barely admit it, but I must. I hold on to a lot of stereotypes that distort my experience in relationship to other people. As you may have been following in the last while through my blog, I am attempting to dissect and disseminate my own ̶
- August 7th, 2008
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Happy Birthday Miso!
Our little teeny, adorable puppy, is gettin’ all grown up. Miso von Chompers turned one whole year old today. I know you’re just dying for an update. Who is Miso? That is a really good question, a question that I am just beginning to be a
- August 6th, 2008
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It hurts us
The sun was blazing yesterday, so I might have been a little irritable on my ride home from work. It also didn’t help anything when the bus overheated and stalled on the freeway, leaving a packed load of folks without air conditioning. I didn&#
- August 5th, 2008
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Vanity and Validation
Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to be a performer. I had more than just a typical desire for attention - I longed to attract a certain kind of attention, the kind that inspires admiration and awe. A few short-lived periods dot my life story
- August 2nd, 2008
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You and me babe
I’m so mad at you. I haven’t quite figured out why you’ve made me so angry, but I thought perhaps some direct communication could help. We’ve been together for a really long time now, and I’ve put a ton of energy into m
- July 31st, 2008
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Look Where You’re Going
I’m writing this from my iPhone, so I can’t link to Barney’s blog when I tell you about how Barney had a deep, philosophical thought today. Perhaps having deep, philosophical thoughts are contagious through the iPhone, since he star
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Breakfast of Champions
I am about to finish Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. I checked out the book from the Multnomah County Library four weeks ago. I’ve never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut before. The book looks like this: I’m enjoying the book
- July 30th, 2008
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Let’s try this again
As many of you are aware (or at least those of you who subscribe to my blog through a reader), I attempted to post from the new Wordpress app on my iPhone last week, and rss readers everywhere were subjected to a random post that had a funny title an
- July 25th, 2008
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My First Love
They say you never fully recover from your first fall over the precipice of love. Time and distance eventually, mercifully tarnish those horribly (and wonderfully) intense feelings that you thought would never be abated. Surprisingly, you don’t
- July 24th, 2008
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Thursday Afternoon Blues
I’m standing at the busstop in the shade with the Be Good Tanyas in my ears and the smell of dry, yellow grass filling my mind. I left work early because I could and also because I’m feeling introspective all of a sudden and I needed to g
- July 23rd, 2008
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What is sexy?
After I wrote the post about being a queer woman, I had a really interesting discussion over IM with a friend of mine. She talked about how she periodically measures her femmeness by determining how sexy she is. I’ll be the first person to admi
- July 22nd, 2008
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What you need is automation, girl
I have a soft spot in my heart for boy bands, and for laboratory science. Put those two things together, and well, I’m a pretty happy camper. Check out this music video advertising a machine that will perform pipetting for you, performed by a g
- July 21st, 2008
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Potluck Pleasure
Lesbians love potlucks. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a conglomeration of strangers and friends, gifting and inhaling home cooked deliciousness, whilst chatting enthusiastically about everything and nothing in particular. Potlucks glor
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I heart Portland
It’s been a little over a year since Agent and I (with the magnanimous help of our dear friend, Cole) packed up the U-Haul and headed north from San Francisco to Portland. I was very excited and very nervous about the whole thing, mostly becaus
- July 17th, 2008
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Woman in a Queer State
I wore a three-piece suit to my community college graduation ceremony over 10 years ago. I was just a baby really, beginning the long discovery of my strange and fascinating gender identity. I felt this was my breakthrough moment, the very first time
- July 15th, 2008
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Vegan Zombie
So I wrote a big giant post about being vegan and then this serendipitously showed up in my blog reader from Boing Boing: I must have this tshirt. It’s just too much of a coincidence to pass up!
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Being Vegan
It’s only been a few months since I packed up the cheese and waved a sad goodbye to scrambled eggs, since I consciously turned my back on all those assorted milk derivatives (and there are many of them), started diligently inspecting ingredient