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Summer Life Update
a year ago
Life continues generally to improve for me. I feel like I'm living for the first time in my life and it makes me acutely aware of my age and how much time has been stolen from me. There's nothing that can really be done about it but I'm still having to work through the emotions associated with that loss.
I'm about eight and a half months into HRT. Feeling more at home in my skin. My wonderful friend
drew my new sona. I went to FE 2024 and saw a bunch of folks Ive known for almost a decade (and one I've known for almost a decade and a half)
I'm having to skip AC this year despite having friends going/driving by my home with a space in their room due to cost. I spent big this year on a two week trip to Wales to see my girlfriend
for her graduation (and my partner is coming and gonna travel all over the place on her own since she really enjoys travel) that happens at the end of July.
After the trip I'm going to begin work on my legal name change now that I've figured out what my name is going to be. Will be happy to yeet my old Christianity tied, gendered soon to be dead name and never have to see it again. Instead I'm going to use a more flexibly gendered name.
Late August will be my 42nd birthday, around the target period for me to head down to Delaware to see multiple close friends for a bit. I'll also be in chicago briefly in late september for a marathon my partner is going to be running.
I'm out with my immediate family. Out with most people I'm meeting nowadays IRL. Out with five people at work including my boss but most of it was people at HR to talk through a legal name change without having to make it public within the large company I work with (since I got my license under a nickname I dont really feel the need to change my name professionally).
Normally I might not care about being out but the company is headquartered in Oklahoma and out of the seven states it has offices in only one is a blue state, so I have to imagine a majority of the folks working there might be uncomfortable with a trans coworker, and I dont know what kind of restrictions on businesses will be coming in the next few years of anti trans legislation in the state. Though I will say it's always amused me as an atheist trans person to be the lead engineer for a whole bunch of church work.
Oh and I have a bluesky account now.
https://bsky.app/profile/somnilux.bsky.social
I'm about eight and a half months into HRT. Feeling more at home in my skin. My wonderful friend
drew my new sona. I went to FE 2024 and saw a bunch of folks Ive known for almost a decade (and one I've known for almost a decade and a half)I'm having to skip AC this year despite having friends going/driving by my home with a space in their room due to cost. I spent big this year on a two week trip to Wales to see my girlfriend
for her graduation (and my partner is coming and gonna travel all over the place on her own since she really enjoys travel) that happens at the end of July.After the trip I'm going to begin work on my legal name change now that I've figured out what my name is going to be. Will be happy to yeet my old Christianity tied, gendered soon to be dead name and never have to see it again. Instead I'm going to use a more flexibly gendered name.
Late August will be my 42nd birthday, around the target period for me to head down to Delaware to see multiple close friends for a bit. I'll also be in chicago briefly in late september for a marathon my partner is going to be running.
I'm out with my immediate family. Out with most people I'm meeting nowadays IRL. Out with five people at work including my boss but most of it was people at HR to talk through a legal name change without having to make it public within the large company I work with (since I got my license under a nickname I dont really feel the need to change my name professionally).
Normally I might not care about being out but the company is headquartered in Oklahoma and out of the seven states it has offices in only one is a blue state, so I have to imagine a majority of the folks working there might be uncomfortable with a trans coworker, and I dont know what kind of restrictions on businesses will be coming in the next few years of anti trans legislation in the state. Though I will say it's always amused me as an atheist trans person to be the lead engineer for a whole bunch of church work.
Oh and I have a bluesky account now.
https://bsky.app/profile/somnilux.bsky.social
Yup! :D
Regardless, its nice to hear from you.
Wishing you all the best, my friend 💕