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September 17th, 2009

11:09 pm - Moving around Another update. I guess last time I wrote I was living in a different flat with Erica, my American flatmate from the previous summer, and the Lithuanians, Kristijonas (approx.) and Ruta, and Adam from Ireland, who is incredibly attractive if morose and insecure, and also in a couple. But I recently realized that I'm not really monogamous (not that I'm being non-monogamous either, these days...) so all I have to do is convince him that he shouldn't be either... hah. I spent a lot of time playing The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind on our X-box. Actually, I'm glad I moved out simply so that I would be able to resist the temptation of that game. Sigh. Now I've moved into a different flat, only a walk across the park from my old flat, which has 6 other people in it. It is gorgeous, and very large. As soon as I get hold of a digital camera I will take pictures. The bathroom downstairs has a freestanding tub with brass fittings... and the kitchen is huge, unlike my old flat, in which you had to stand in line single file if more than one person was using the stove. My new room is bigger and has a little door in the wall that goes to the turret. I moved a clothes rack in there and that's where I dry my laundry. So far it's worked pretty well, except that I have to crawl in on my hands and knees and I only got a lamp in there today to see what I'm doing (there are no windows). I want to fix it up, insulate it, put down a better floor, a rug, some cushions and some lights and maybe actually use it for something. That would be fun. Most of the other people here are eco-activists, and like to have communal dinners and things. I like that. But somehow something has stopped me from being comfortable with them so far. Maybe we just don't get along... that's a possibility. Sigh. Other possibilities include that they are mostly English and middle-class, which means they have a certain violently normalizing attitude (I find). It could also be me being insecure because I'm the only trans person. And I have signed up with a recruitment agency. I spent two or three weeks cleaning out dorm rooms for summer tourists and students, and now I have started working in a cafeteria making sandwiches. Unfortunately the place I'm doing it is half an hour out of Edinburgh and necessitates getting a bus, which is not reimbursed! Grr. But oh well. Hopefully I'm going to switch agencies soon, or get another job, such as doing background acting again. The sun keeps going down earlier and earlier. I have also started doing Mediumship courses at the local Spiritualist Church. So far, I contacted somebody's uncle who was a gardening expert in Australia. And I got a reiki healing today. The healer told me that he had to bypass my electrical circuit to work on me and that I had a filter on my 9th and some kind of grid somewhere and that I was working a lot on the astral level instead of being grounded. I have very little idea of what any of that means. I think I need a holiday soon! Somewhere warmer than here, definitely. Current Location: Edinburgh Current Mood: awake Current Music: cars

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July 15th, 2009

11:06 pm - Nowhere to go Why is it that whenever I come to London, a crisis ends up happening? For example, here I am in an internet cafe, wondering where I'll sleep tonight, bereft of cell phone (left in Edinburgh) and functioning debit card. Maybe I'll rename this livejournal "Andy's Travel Crisis Blog." Here's a brief survey of what has happened in the last couple of weeks. So I was in Belfast. The next morning, the day of both Prides, I had pretty much made up my mind to go on a Giant's Causeway tour, because I've never been and I wasn't in the mood for crowds. But at 8 in the morning, I turned off my alarm and went back to sleep. I awoke again at 10:45 to the sound of a police megaphone and barking dogs. Surprised and alarmed, I looked out the window. Apparently the Irish Republican Socialist Party, waving tricolor Irish flags, had decided to march to the city center without a permit from the Parades Committee, and a line of police in riot gear were standing in their way at the foot of the Falls Road (the main Catholic neighborhood), where I was staying. The police officer in charge was telling them something that contained the phrases "At the right place, at the right time" and "only lead to violence," whereupon they clapped briefly and then started trailing back towards the Falls Road. Then I went to Dublin Pride, which was okay, except I missed the parade and went to the afterparty. I met up with a friend of Elizabeth's and we had a good time. Her housemate is from Edinburgh and gave me the name of her brother's shop, which I really should visit. Went back to Belfast. Stayed a couple more days. Was restless, probably because I'd forgotten how conservative/traditional it is there. I sat in a Marks and Spencer's, reading a book, when I heard the sound of drums outside. It was an Orange March. This is why Belfast has a Parades Commission, because every summer around the anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the Irish king, radical anti-Catholic Protestant groups march through the streets. It was the least enjoyable parade I'd ever been to. Stern but ordinary looking people playing brass instruments, or wearing bowler hats, or banging on drums. Each stroke sounded like a gunshot through the mostly silent crowd. A middle aged woman down the street started clapping and cheering. My American flatmate said that she was busking during an Orange March in Edinburgh once, and old Catholic men kept coming up to her and telling her good job and keep it up. Which is sort of funny, because she plays the harp, which happens to be one of the main symbols of Ireland--they thought she was protesting. Then I went to Edinburgh and I've been staying there. I hitchhiked down to London a couple of days ago, which was a wonderful experience. I was with two people I knew from Edinburgh for most of it, after which I was riding with the uncle of one of the truck drivers we encountered. It was so freeing. I know people who have hitchhiked for years in many places and never had a problem. The only hitch was that I hadn't booked a place to stay for when I got here, so after the internet cafe closed I ended up spending most of the night sitting outside the Victoria Station trying not to be cold. I don't want to do that again... Well, it looks like I'm going to have to go to the hostel I stayed at last night again. Wish me luck. :P Current Location: an internet cafe, London Current Mood: anxious

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June 26th, 2009

12:29 am - Band Montage So Michael Jackson's dead. I feel sorry for him. Or felt sorry for him. Before he died. Unless there's some kind of terrible afterlife that he's gone to or something. Anyway, so I'm in Belfast after a rather unexpected turn of events that included me riding 2 hours and 40 minutes on public transportation to the Chicago O'Hare airport, after which, with 15 minutes until my flight left, I realized I didn't have any information on the flight I was supposed to be taking, including the terminal I was supposed to go to. Fortunately, the gods of air travel were smiling and I got rebooked for a later flight. The flight I was going to take before would have had me changing airports at London before going on to Dublin, but this one went from Philadelphia to Dublin so I went to Dublin. And now I'm here, where my friends are moving so I feel sort of in the way. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to go to the Dublin or Edinburgh pride festivals, both of which are this Saturday. And I've still got that weird feeling that you get when you haven't quite wrapped your head around the fact that you've crossed an ocean... where everything is so familiar you feel like you've been here forever but you haven't quite accepted you're here yet. I don't know when, or if, I'll be back in the US, but I don't really want to think about that right now... It's pretty good to be here. Have I showed you this? It was the funniest thing I'd seen all month: http://www.dustfilms.com/literalvideos edit: well, the red hot chili peppers one is pretty stupidly offensive but the other ones are funny. Current Location: Belfast Current Mood: awake Current Music: Literal Take On Me

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June 20th, 2009

11:02 pm - More Oh, the thing in my attic was a raccoon. A really big one, apparently. Uncle Frank put up some chicken wire but that didn't keep the raccoon out... it made a fearful racket pulling the wire down and then ran back and forth above my head until 3 in the morning. We had some animal removers come and set traps with fish and marshmallows, but apparently it figured out it had been discovered and slipped away. Then khellekson and her husband Mike visited us. It was great to see them and talk about Arrogant Worms and Red Dwarf and stuff. They're in Niagara Falls right now. Well, hopefully not literally in Niagara Falls. I updated my webcomic... it's over at http://asciencewebsite.livejournal.com ... nothing else has happened but I'm hoping that I'll be able to put some more panels up in the next week. Of course I'll be changing continents, so maybe that's wishful thinking. Tomorrow I'll be on my way to Chicago to catch my plane to London. Greyhound, unfortunately. I'm going to stay with my friend Laura for a couple of days until my plane on the Then I'll be there, in the UK. I'm going to Edinburgh. It's a bit freaky, this flying across teh world in a few hours thing. o_O It's so exciting though. I'm reading The Invisibles and noticing that gender variance is seen as a transgressive, political thing, or a symptom of the future. This annoys me. I like the song "Big Balls" by AC/CD. It's very catchy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUuyzQDmjY Well, good night. Time to stop doing last minute freaking out.

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June 14th, 2009

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March 25th, 2009

09:38 pm - Florida and Elizabeth Hey, I'm in Florida visiting Elizabeth for Spring Break. It's pretty great. I love airports, and airplanes (aside from the wondering whether I'm about to die), and then I love dancing with Elizabeth, who is studying anthropology and taking the LSAT to get into law school. And she's in the circus doing unicycle and bike tricks. Unfortunately, there are apparently a lot of conservatives in the circus here at Florida State University. We talked about them as we watched the trapeze artists from the stands. Circuses are supposed to be bohemian! But no, this is professional. I am thinking of moving to Europe permanently over the summer and Elizabeth is going to South America to study anthropology it will be probably a lot longer than usual before I see her again... which is sad. Also, her housemate has a ferret and his name is Davide. There is Spanish moss on the trees. We're going to the beach tomorrow. It's a lot warmer here than it is in Ohio. I like the tropical spring. The balmy humid air that threatens future heat. The palm trees that are not very numerous. The soil that is red. There are big box stores all over the place like Ohio, however. I'm taking at 22 hour Greyhound bus ride back to Cleveland on Saturday. I brought a lot of reading. I started reading Why I Write by George Orwell, a book I bought, what, four years ago in London, as an impulse purchase. It was good. He talks a lot of smack about the British. Semi-affectionately. I miss it, despite the racism and transphobia and such. I remembered walking on Hampstead Heath at night when I wrote a paper about the Keats poem "Ode to a Nightingale" for a class. But Florida is beautiful and I want to live somewhere warm and semi-tropical like this. Everything seems softer. Current Mood: contemplative

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February 15th, 2009

01:31 pm - Christian history Oberlin's Quaker meeting has gained two children who come to meeting with their dad, so we have had to debate about how to handle having a Sunday school. I'm charged with teaching the kids about Christian history before the Quakers. Great! I thought. Now I can teach them all about how Christianity departed from Judaism with Jesus and spread across the Roman Empire, which regarded it as a cannibalistic Mystery Cult, helped by the fact that unlike other religions in Europe at the time it admitted women and the poor as members. This universalism was in some ways egalitarian, but also led to oppressive evangelism and coercion. Then I can tell them how Christianity came to be the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire when Constantine converted and co-opted many symbols and holidays from traditional pagan religions, including Christmas and Easter. And I can tell them about how the Catholic church grew into an enormous political power, unequalled until Martin Luther challenged it, and had to resort to guerilla tactics to keep himself and his followers from being killed. When Henry VIII decided he wanted a divorce, he adopted Protestantism, beginning a bloody sectarian power struggle that still exists to this day. Christians persecuted Jews and Roma and anybody else who refused to be saved, and all of the European powers sent off missionaries with their conquering forces, all across the world, so that the people they killed could go to heaven. Then, Protestantism split into many different branches as the people involved got into theological disagreements. George Fox, in England, started Quakerism, which could be seen as the most radical branch of Protestantism--that we don't need hierarchies and titles and priests; that we are all equal. Then somebody handed me a children's book of Bible stories and suggested that I try some of those... but I am still going to slip some of my anti-establishment rhetoric in... I'm not going to whitewash the whole thing... Current Mood: fiery

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February 12th, 2009

09:30 pm - Jack Handy I just remembered how much I love Jack Handy. Actually, he's probably one of my favorite comedians of all time. Here are some things he's said: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." "It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs." "If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted." "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” “The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.” "If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, "Well, technically that's illegal." It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party." Want some more? Here's some: http://www.oliverbenjamin.net/handey.html https://stakface.com/~stakface/laugh/listjoke.php?id=1314 http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jack_handy/1.html Current Location: Harkness Current Mood: amused Current Music: Yoshida Brothers

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January 28th, 2009

03:59 pm - Webcomic! I had a dream last night that I was in a kind of halloween-like landscape, with old creaky grey buildings and wrought-iron fences. I suddenly found that I was a ghost, which meant that I could become invisible whenever I pleased. I tried to get my sister interested in the phenomenon, but she didn't care. My sister is always such a spoilsport in my dreams! And then the ghost phenomenon faded, and I was a solid person again without any special abilities. After that I went to a word puzzle contest thing that was being hosted by Eddie Izzard. I hadn't signed up, but they let me participate anyway. Here's the link to my new webcomic: http://asciencewebsite.livejournal.com The name came from my Winter Term sponsor, who for some reason was worried that if I called my project a webcomic the Winter Term censors would not allow it. I was going to change it, but then I passed the deadline... In other news, I'm moving to Harkness. My soon-to-be-ex-roommates were dicks and asked me to move out because their friend is coming back from studying abroad. Calling people "dicks" is so satisfying. Even though it's difficult to move, I'm glad I'm not staying here any more. It will be freeing. Ben will no longer be there to go goggle-eyed whenever he has to speak to me. Current Mood: awake

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January 25th, 2009

11:09 pm - Two ships In other news, this is a conversation I just had over the internet, god bless it: boogieingsalmon: Hey, Jimmy. Andrew: Hi Martha do I know you? boogieingsalmon: hi, this is chris Andrew: this is Andy boogieingsalmon: who are you, and why do you write? Andrew: Well, I'm a human being... and I write because I enjoy it I don't think I've ever written to you, though who are you? *20 minutes later with no reply* Andrew: Well, this was fun but I'm going to go have a great life boogieingsalmon: you too Current Mood: amused

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10:27 pm - Creation Hi everybody. I'm currently engaged in writing a web comic for my Winter Term project... maybe once I've posted more I'll post a link to it here. If anybody knows more than I do about trying to get a serial webcomic up in the right format for LiveJournal, please let me know, as I am ignorant. I was just reading a conversation on Facebook about the LGBT community versus Christianity, and somebody quoted 1 Corinthians chapter 13, which I thought was beautiful. I thought Paul was just a stodgy old bigot, but apparently he could write, too. ( Cut for biblicalness ) Current Location: my dorm room Current Mood: impressed Current Music: my computer's strenuous protestations

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January 13th, 2009

02:47 pm - Teaching It's snowing again. I'm still in Oberlin. This time, though, I have a job. My friend banjobenny works for a small business that tutors small kids online, and they needed a temporary tutor because the guy who usually does it is in some other state for a hearing. The business is called "It's All Live," and everybody, including me, thinks that's a pun of the Frankenstein quote, "It's Alive!" However, it's not a pun, according to the owner. I had my first shift yesterday. Apparently things are pretty disorganized... The owner's mother picked me up to go get my fingerprints taken and my background checked by the FBI and the state of Ohio. Apparently public schools take security pretty seriously... when she picked me up, she drove by once first and then stopped. "I was looking for a boy!" she told me as I got in the car. Hmm. Well, that solved the problem of figuring out how to reconcile my female name with my identity. Since neither she nor her son are around very much, I'm not going to be bothered by the fact that they call me "she." We do three hour-long classes a night, with fifteen minute breaks in between. The kids are pretty good. I forgot how sarcastic junior high students are. They're pretty hilarious. Sure, they asked me which of the two genders I am, but I ignored those questions. I was expecting to just talk to the kids over a headset, but there's a webcam, too, which makes it kind of awkward... and I have to explain how to divide fractions as well as remember how to do it. Hah. I should just say, "Y'know what? I haven't had to deal with fractions since I was your age. We have computers and the decimal system now." Also, the headsets don't always work, so I can't hear the tutees ask me questions. But it's kind of fun if one of the second graders hasn't figured out how to flash different picture up on the white board or has decided to start trolling the little chat board and typing random letters into it. I just threaten to call their mothers on Skype. :) That is, if their mothers are there. Sometimes it's kind of sad to listen to them on the headset and hear loud music playing in the background or people yelling. Not conducive to studying at all... Actually, I have another shift in an hour... gotta walk down to the business park, which is not fun because it takes half an hour and the sidewalks aren't shoveled when there are sidewalks. I think this comic is really great: http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ Current Location: the library Current Mood: hopeful

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January 9th, 2009

02:09 pm It's snowing, I'm back in Oberlin, working on my Winter Term project, which is (ostensibly) writing a web comic. I can't believe it's already 3 in the afternoon. *Yawns.* On the other hand, I have been dumpster diving around the town and learning about permaculture by dropping in on a Winter Term class. Did you know that you can grow things on asphalt parking lots using compost? Neither did I. Apparently there is a substantial network of Oberlin dumpsterers, which is not surprising. They often go to Trader Joe's to get stuff. Isabelle and I got yelled at by the manager of the IGA last night for taking stuff from there. Not only did she tell us to leave and put the stuff we'd gotten back in the dumpster, but she also felt the need to tell us it was wrong. Yes, it's wrong to keep perfectly good food (such as slightly-wilted broccoli) from going to a landfill, where it will pollute and do all kinds of damage to the earth that we all share. It's wrong because it might--MIGHT--cost them a bit of money that I would spend on their criminally overpriced merchandise. It's also wrong because it's not normal. Our normality is living in a haze of complacency regarding the food we eat and the money we earn and spend because none of it is ours. We do tasks to get money; we go to the store and spend it to get things. No thought involved in it. Entrepreneurship is extolled in our society when it means being an upstanding member of the society and fucking over poor people and people of color... but not when it means taking advantage of the bloated waste disposal system our society utilizes... throwing away things on a date way before there's any hint of liability that they might not be up to our standards of gleaming packaged perfection. Anyway, then we went to Wal-Mart, but they had a trash compactor. A trash compactor is an infernal device that not only uses up more energy but turns thrown-away products into unusable trash locked inside a huge metal barrel. We talked to a greeter named Gary who also drives trucks for a living and recommended that I use Linux. Current Mood: awake Current Music: My roommate's cartoon watching

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December 26th, 2008

06:46 pm - Sex statistics My family have all gone to Iowa for five days, leaving me here to finish my 15 page English paper. I'm kind of glad I didn't go, as I have avoided a whole lot of stress, and a lot of mispronouning. However, it would have been nice to see my grandparents. xkcd today (http://www.xkcd.com/) reported that putting the phrase "men kissing" into Google Trends reveals that the search term is most popular in Utah. I went to Google Trends and yes, there it was. Actually, that's only in the United States. The country that searches for "men kissing" the most is Pakistan. So of course I started typing in other sex-related phrases and here are some other ones that Utah comes first (no pun intended) in: *women kissing *kissing *masturbation These are the ones that Kentucky comes first in. They, incidentally, came in second for "men kissing": *sex *porn *penis *nude *anal sex Other most populars: Pennsylvania: "vagina," "bondage." Kansas: "milf." Ohio: "naked" and "oral sex." Nevada: "fetish." Washington: "BDSM," "bestiality" (Oregon comes in second for that one, by the way...) "Gay" is most popular in New York, whereas "lesbian" is most popular... again in Kentucky. So there you have it. Kentucky has nothing to do but search for porn all day. Current Location: Yellow Springs Current Mood: amused Current Music: Amelie soundtrack

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December 22nd, 2008

10:46 pm - this is it I'm back in Yellow Springs. Trying to get up the motivation to work on my English paper. Sigh. It's about Emily Dickinson. I freaking love Emily Dickinson, did you know that? For example, this poem, My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun. She has amazing images. Y'know what else is good? This song by Tracy Chapman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s2YVFfWP5c Current Mood: tired Current Music: Change - Tracy Chapman

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December 18th, 2008

12:00 am - Paint I'm trying to start studying for my Computer Science exam. Naturally I'm going to post on LiveJournal instead. I have been almost constantly busy over the last few weeks. Thanks, Oberlin! I'm sure you who have graduated miss the hair-rending stress of exams. I think I've finally figured out how to explain my gender. It has to do with quantum theory. I dunno if I can explain the principles behind it clearly... but anyway, a quantum particle is a particle that is not being observed. Quantum theorists have conjectured that a particle that is not being observed is in all of a number of possible states. It could be spinning east or west, for example. The Heisenberg uncertainty principles maintains that it's an intrinsic part of the quantum particle that prevents it from staying in that state once it is observed. It's the same thing with my gender, you see. When it's not being observed, it's in any number of possible states. There's an equal chance I will wake up and want to be one way as another. However, when my gender is observed, or an attempt is made to measure it, it can collapse. I'm sure this is a simplistic way to view quantum theory... but maybe it's not the particle itself that has collapsed, maybe it's just that the observer's brain cannot, or will not, comprehend the particle in its unobserved state. Back to studying... Current Mood: awake Current Music: Modest Mouse, "Float On"

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December 4th, 2008

02:48 am - this It's almost 3 in the morning, I'm still awake because I drank coffee on the job tonight... I have to get up at 8:30 or so... Ah well. Anyway, I wanted to write because I'm angry... well, I was angry. Weird Al Yankovic is awful unless you are in this kind of mood. If you like Weird Al Yankovic, I apologize. However, I have this intense urge to pierce his lips together every time I see him singing or doing comedy... So I'm angry. This is why: near the beginning of the semester, during the schoolwide picture, my friend Ted was getting up on my shoulders when this guy named Zach who I used to be in Harkness with decided to get behind me and run his hands down my chest. He claims that it was an accident, that he was just trying to help support me because I looked like I was going to fall over. I almost believed him when he tried to convince me not to report it to the college; he was so sincere, so compassionate, so sorry to hear that I've been assaulted in the past and it brought up all these issues for me, made me feel like the world was my enemy again, as he looked me directly in the eye. But I know what accidental feels like, and this was not accidental. The physics of it is not right. And he had been pretty baldly trying to get me to sleep with him beforehand. I think that I will email him to say that if he speaks to me again before the end of the school year, I will punch him in his stupid face. Anyway, I've reported it to the college. Unfortunately the woman who handles these issues is no help at all, and told me (coldly) today, after having me demonstrate what happened, that it could definitely have been an accident. Ah, power. Current Mood: angry Current Music: "Here's a Health to the Company"

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November 28th, 2008

08:09 pm - There were never any good old days; they are today, they are tomorrow Today is a day observed by many Native Americans who remember, and still experience, the consequences of the Pilgrims landing on the East Coast and the destruction and genocide that followed. I just got a fund raising message from the HRC, (at my parents' house in Yellow Springs) and I got a hunch--so I asked her where she was calling from. Turns out she was calling from Telefund in Los Angeles, which is where I used to work. So I pledged to give the HRC $50 which I don't plan to actually send, via mail, so that I could boost her stats. I always planned to do that, glad I got the chance :) I hate that the HRC uses Telefund, one, so I'm not going to actually contribute, and two, I don't like how they handled ENDA. My aunt made gluten-free stuffing for Thanksgiving, so that was nice. We went to dinner at some friends' of the family. One of their relatives said, shaking hands with me, that she'd met my sisters but hadn't met me. That was a bit weird. (I only have one sister, incidentally.) Gonna go back to Oberlin tomorrow so I can actually (hopefully) get some homework done. My parents save electricity by keeping this end of the house at 50 degrees most of the time... that and the many distractions that surround me aren't very conducive to studying. I just found a bag full of cheap shiny things I collected, or that became a part of my room, when I was a teenager. Strings of plastic beads, a feather, bracelets, brooches (including one shaped like a pair of lips with a light that blinks), necklaces with objects that FIRST robotics teams gave out, a plastic banana on one, a disco ball on another, a pair of sunglasses shaped like "2004", a rabbit pez dispenser. These things make me happy. Elizabeth and I, we were so sparkly. Elizabeth is still sparkly. :) I think I will give the ones of these that are actually usable to one of the Oberlin free boxes. By the way, ... hm, I forgot. Anyway, NPR aired an interview with Etta James today. Here are a couple of her songs: "At Last" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fSY_S45rZ4 and "Rather Go Blind" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwylnmACZ8 Current Location: In my bedroom Current Mood: impressed Current Music: Etta James

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November 18th, 2008

09:52 pm - sigh Good evening. I'm avoiding homework... and looking up really long words on wikipedia again. Words like: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu which is a hill in New Zealand, and Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, which is an Ancient Greek dish mentioned a couple of times in an Aristophanes play. I was sick all last week, with something that felt like mono. Now I'm going to an Oberlin BDSM meeting. I've also decided to join the Quidditch team, though I don't know if I'm actually going to do that. It's been an odd semester. Current Location: the library Current Mood: awake Current Music: the hum of the library...

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September 12th, 2008

10:27 pm - Bleagh I'm thinking of changing livejournals to something new and different... I've had this one for four years and the weight of my teenager hood is stifling new thought. My roommate Ben in the next room has some friends over and they're playing Halo and having a political discussion (they're liberals). Now they're playing the game Rock Band, which is an excuse to sing loudly and horribly. Jesus. Ben's the one who doesn't really interact with me since I showed myself to be weird by wearing female clothing. Unfortunately I have to walk past him to get into my room--he's generally to be found sitting in his chair facing the door playing Gameboy. He's an asshole. His friends call him a dick behind his back and generally patronize him--that arouses my sympathies a bit... One of the other two is a real sweetheart named Nathaniel. Then there's Jeff who could go either way. A lot of male American college students are hilarious in a bittersweet way, which means that I could cheerfully punch them. I mean the ones who feel like they can't be smart because that would be gay. "Dude," "man," "what the fuck." I wish I could move into a co-op but apparently the resolution allowing trans students to jump the waitlist if they're having problems with their housing accommodation didn't pass. It was easier not to give a fuck about what they thought of me when Judy was here, but now it's a bit different. It's depressing not to feel like I can wear a dress when I want to. I only thank god that I don't have to share my room with him. Other than that, I've been doing my homework... and being boring. Oh, went dumpster diving with Benny last night. That was pretty fun. I got some vegetables. There's an herb garden next to the art museum which nobody appears to use. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Noooboddeeee knows what it's lyyyyykkeee... to be the bad mannnn...

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