Serena

I am honestly rather interested to follow this… both as a semi-pro educator who teaches at community college and being involved in local politics.

It feels like huge swathes of my life revolve around education, so listening to a podcast that teaches and also talks about teaching… seems cool!

Yeah, that's super-helpful too. I really wish I could convert my adjunct (part-time) status into something better, but considering the fact that I'm teaching business and even though I have a ton of years in private sector, I don't have an advanced degree... I don't think I have much of a chance.

I'm crossing my fingers for you. I also know that I've run across a couple of those "that's the sweetest spot possible for my skills" positions and, well.... unfortunately, my luck roll didn't quite carry. Whatever does happen, I hope you find success.

Good discussion. I'm really grateful that you are a trans content creator and willing to put your voice out there. I'm doing all I can to try to do the same. As much education as we can hopefully provide to show others that we are human, we exist, and we want to live and thrive like others do.

I’m glad you could go! I’m all the way on the far west side of this snaky district and I miss a lot of the things happening within it because it’s almost all based in the city.

(Good on everyone for booing the bigoted response.)

Postscript is that I had my gallbladder out five days later (coincidentally, twenty-three days after my BA surgery). After that, no cramping.

Re: E efficacy, I've maybe dropped a tiny bit of a shoe size, zero difference in height? I dunno if that's helpful data, but it was brought up.

My experience of being trans with cramping:

I'd get what I thought were horrific cramps. They happened infrequently but I didn't track them. All I knew is that they'd happen weeks apart.

Then they happened on a Monday night... then a Friday night.

Went to the hospital. Found out I had gallstones.

I remember my "gifted" class where... they just gave me more worksheets. It's like "why would I want to waste time on this?"

My elementary school in the 80s wised up after that. For a solid two years I had French instruction. I was sent to a higher grade classroom for reading/math. Then it was fun.

Meanwhile… I bought my original Logitech Trackman trackball mouse in 1998, I’ve used it almost exclusively as my daily work mouse ever since graduating in 2002. It’s getting close to thirty years old… and the Radio Shack PS/2 to USB adapter on it is about twenty years old.

what if there's a number 10 who is currently lifting the bar?

ensuring your most proper form and being safe by bailing out when needed. good job Brooke.

post you from a different era

(sometimes I cleaned up okay. I finally took my physical health seriously by this time, but it was a very long process for me to take my mental health seriously.

e minus five years here)

I wanted to be a small gal.

Accidents of birth prevented this outcome… so I leaned hard in going the other direction.

I still strive for “cute”… though it’s a far different aesthetic when it’s overlaid by “muscular”, I think it works out well enough that it’s a good second option.

And more gym shenanigans. 195 pounds RDL, set two of an overall four.

Whose down for an arm wrestle?

💪😘

The only reason he is allowed to be "tough" is because _all of the people around him let him_.

That's a rather instructive lesson to, well, _all of the people around_.

I hope that I get to see you after this if this does happen.

Casey and Finnegan! There's a few of us US border-dwellers who remember the Tickle Trunk!

It can be really odd how this works. I was out of a job in 2012 and one of the places I wanted to land was in the U.S. South... but I stayed in the Midwest.

Seven years later I finally finished my process of coming out and I realized that it was a good thing I landed where I did.

This right here. My management wonders why "it seems like you have no enthusiasm to do your work", and it's like.... there's a gnawing existential dread at all times, but dammit here I am looking shit up one-by-one on a spreadsheet regardless just trying to hang on tight.

I wish I could leave.

An Update:

I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.

(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

as long as that explosion doesn't get anywhere near your tripolodine, you should be fine.

(but feel free to sing in your CB for the hell of it!)

I don't "like" these, but I am offering you my empathy in the form of hearts.

Honestly, the only ones who tend to treat me horribly are the ones that have to perform their horribleness in front of others…

I would hope that the whole “being at a wedding” thing would tamp down such shenanigans.

Glad you feel confident in staying. Good luck.

So overall, it built experience but not in the way you were really wanting it to?

Any possible indication you were hired as spectacle for the guests to specifically treat poorly? As, like, “the help that can be abused”?

Customs broker here.

I would suggest that you ask for the 7501 as proof that FedEx acted as your customs broker, just to ensure that they did pay what they are asking you to pay...

...then the 7501 can be posted to the internet (sans any data) to begin an online museum of "how things got worse".

I talk around this, but I think it's worth saying bluntly based on how some of you seem to be doing.

I can't relate to your fear.

I have devoted all or nearly all of my adult life to this work. I feel no older, no slower, no less sharp for it. Every day, I wake up with renewed zeal and hatred.

Rimworld == very solid, are you up with all of the expansions? If so, how's the newest one?

Thank you for the reminder!