You Can't Like That!
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: NCAA Tournament
Have you gotten your FDA reccommended dose of NCAA basketball? I think it surprises people sometimes when they find out how much I like sports. They give me a line something like, "But how can you like sports if you're transsexaul? Isn't that more a guy thing?" Good question. I understand that many t-women took on hobbies and got involved in things simply because it was expected of them as guys. For me that's not the case. I have some hobbies and things that I enjoy that are typically male (i.e. sports, fast cars, computers and video games when I was younger, etc), but I never did them because I wanted to fit in. I picked them up because I genuinely enjoyed them and still do for the most part. I also had some things I did as a child that leaned toward the feminine. I tended to mix and match as it pleased me. Perhaps I was more able to do this because I was mostly an independent child. I had friends and knew a lot of people but I spent a lot of time on my own too. Maybe that helped to keep me from developing a "crowd mentality". Having spoken with a lot of transsexual women in various stages of transition, it seems that many of us tend to avoid typically masculine hobbies at some point. This seems to be especially true after one goes full-time. As if the mere association with anything male could suggest that we are not the women we believe ourselves to be. Hoping to avoid that as I have in the past. Afterall, what would March be without the tournament?

It's 3 weeks today since I had my first laser appointment and I'm scheduling my second for next week. According to my laser tech, everything that's going to fall out from a treatment should be gone at the 3 week mark and subsequent treatments should fall in 4 to 6 week intervals. This catches hairs while they are in the growing cycle (which is the only time treatment can be completely effective). At this point, I've had basically complete clearance of the face. It takes longer for the killed follicles to fall out than I originally anticipated (see my March 13th entry and comments). I do have a few streaks below the jawline and on the neck where hair is still growing, but I think these areas were just overlooked by the laser tech rather than being extra hard to kill. Overall, the difference is huge. I've been able to go 4 or 5 times as long between shaving as I used to, hairs that are growing back are coming in slower and finer, and at this point I'm not nearly as skeptical about laser as I was initially. Let's hope that a lot of the follicles killed will be gone permanently. That'll be the real test.

I'm going out with T* and one of her roommates tonight who has promised me that we'll all be very drunk by the time we get back. Someone line up a liver donor for me.

;-)

"Sunrise sunrise
Looks like morning in your eyes
But the clocks had nine fifteen for hours

Sunrise sunrise
Couldn't tempt us if it tried
Cause the afternoon's already come and gone
And I said
Hooohooo hooohooo hooohooo
To you

Surprise surprise
Couldn't find it in your eyes
But I'm sure it's written all over my face

Surprise surprise
Never something I could hide
When I see we've made it through another day
Then I say
Hooohoo hooohooo hooohooo
To you

Now the night
Throw its cover down
Mmm on me again
Ooo and if I'm right
It's the only way to bring me back
Hooohooo hooohooo hooohooo
To you
Hooohooo hooohooo hooohooo
To you"

--Norah Jones