today is my T-birthday: on July 1, 1997 I received my first testosterone injection. I thought it had been thirteen years but I guess it's only been twelve. still, I'm getting up there in trans-years, which start at about age 13 and run about twice as fast as the calendar years do.
although I did get carded for beer in Seattle when I was there. so maybe I am growing up more slowly than I think I am. I no longer feel 18, though. well, that's not quite true either: my rather poorly integrated ego ranges in age from about 7 to something like 110.
in any case, it's my T-birthday and so I must think of something appropriate to do. like go see a movie with lots of car chases and explosions. my shot is due today, though, and unless I take it early, I won't really be all greased up for that sort of thing. it might be more of a museum day or even a stay home and write poetry day.
or maybe I'll walk to a museum, go in, then sit in a gallery and write. that sounds almost nauseatingly artsy doesn't it? it could be good though. must give this some thought.
first some guitar scales.
well, first coffee. I just woke up. I am diurnal today. didn't mean to be, but that's what the body apparently wanted.
although I did get carded for beer in Seattle when I was there. so maybe I am growing up more slowly than I think I am. I no longer feel 18, though. well, that's not quite true either: my rather poorly integrated ego ranges in age from about 7 to something like 110.
in any case, it's my T-birthday and so I must think of something appropriate to do. like go see a movie with lots of car chases and explosions. my shot is due today, though, and unless I take it early, I won't really be all greased up for that sort of thing. it might be more of a museum day or even a stay home and write poetry day.
or maybe I'll walk to a museum, go in, then sit in a gallery and write. that sounds almost nauseatingly artsy doesn't it? it could be good though. must give this some thought.
first some guitar scales.
well, first coffee. I just woke up. I am diurnal today. didn't mean to be, but that's what the body apparently wanted.
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getting carded must've been gratifying. when people started calling me ma'am instead of miss, ahhh, i knew i was getting up there. *g*
next month.
if I can stay awake I'm thinking a long walk with a book to a cafe I've never been to.
Thanks!
Thirteen years is nothing to sneeze at. This weekend a good friend, a trans man, said that he had heard from another trans man up in years that really the most dramatic changes happen AFTER eight years on T. I am not so sure I would say the most dramatic, but I would say that I have noticed that after 12 years or so, or ten -- somewhere in there, the changes somehow coalesce and they add up very dramatically. I see people on T for fourteen years and they are so, well, MANLY, in comparison to those first five years -- what more can I say? It does accumulate.
But, you are already plenty over the line and all, I just thought I would share that bit of info or whatever. It is interesting to me.
Happy T Day again and have fun!
I slept through the first half of the day. if I can stay awake, I will do my best to have a good T Day. thanks!
mostly though I just don't find being up all night that much of a novelty anymore, whether aided by chemicals or just winging it. otherwise I am fairly sure that I have done a good job of refusing to grow up.