Jem with an E

“Lean into the cringe” is my new mantra. But honestly most of the time when I think of cringe I think of overused things that are passed their expiry date, rather than novel or new individual expression.

True. They aren’t scared of any of us individually, but just as a concept that negates the premise of every patriarchal system they believe in.

Today, I:
- Worked a while
- Made lunch
- Took a shower
- Took parents to airport
- Worked some more
- Went to therapy
- Finished work
- Started taxes
- Broke for dinner and to make daughter do homework
- Finished and filed taxes
- Put daughter to bed

Some days there’s zero time to just be a girl 😫

I do believe it is fear at its root. Fear of what they don’t understand. Fear of their lifestyle not forever getting preferential treatment.

Do we ever stop?

If Form W was so great, how come there’s no F— oh.

The current administration in the U.S. is basically a performance/load test (one could even argue a fuzz test) of our country’s basic systems. We are rapidly filing bug reports, and while some of them are being fixed, the terrifying part is seeing so many of them being resolved as Works As Designed.

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I should start asking people I meet if they’re trans. Because if they’re cis, their reaction to that question will speak volumes.

My new friend has texted me every night this week since the game night 😄 which is awesome, I love attention. But how much of a mess am I to think “what does she want from me?” 😕

GarageBand needs iOS next to it.

Sometimes I wish you could give people preprompts like ChatGPT, to tell them how you liked to be spoken to and treated. And then I realized fuck, that’s just expressing boundaries 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why are jokes something you’re supposed to “take”?

I took the express lane 😆
Jan 2023 he/him
Jun 2023 they/them
Nov 2023 she/her

I get to meet my new friend tomorrow! 🥰 I am picking her up to ride to game night. She lives about an hour away, and then it’s another 40 minute drive to the place. We’re meeting like 10 other girls, everyone’s bringing games, and literally no one has met anyone else before 🙃 I can’t wait 😁

Not me joining my daily standup a couple minutes late on purpose just to hear someone say “there she is” 😆

You know what fucking rules? Transitioning. Yes, even now. Every single day, I love my body and mind more.

There is nothing better than feeling like your authentic self 🩵

I’m invited to a girls’ game night on Saturday! It’s all people I’ve never met, so I’m terrified, but also excited bc this is such a dream! I’ve wanted to be invited to something like this forever 🥹 I have to decide what to wear and what game to bring 🥲 and remember to be myself, but not too much 😅

I’m sorry you’re feeling that way. I’m sure it’s not all on you. I have been there for sure. Sometimes asking what someone needs helps, other times they don’t really even know what they need. Sometimes they need to be left alone but don’t realize it. Relationships are complicated.

A list of April Fool’s Day “news” announcements

I asked ChatGPT lol and this is what I got.

Alright, who has a good recap of all the things not to get lied to about this year?

I love the fun ones, like Pokémon GO making poke balls appear on the screen, and that year when Google Maps went 8-bit. Those are fun.

But fake news stories at this day and age is not it.

I just tested this on my wife and with zero hesitation she said “…and FORGET IT!”

If you ever wanna know if there are any millennials around, just yell out “SET IT…” and then listen.

Giving real Harry Burns from WHMS vibes. Cause yeah, what if you died before you found out what Cold Harbor was??

Like I literally asked a question, and then someone else just asked a new question like I didn't even say anything. 😅 That's cool. Sometimes I rethink whether I meant to ask shit anyway.

Getting talked over during meetings now is my favorite form of ewphoria. It's almost weirdly kind of freeing not to have people paying so much attention to me. So my superpower is invisiblity, she realizes, on Trans Day of Visibility...

An electric pencil sharpener with a label on it: “Please insert the pencil horizontally to avoid off-center and” [this part highlighted] “do not push too hard to avoid not working.”

That’s so real, Pencil Sharpener.

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