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12/11/11
My Face for the World to See (Part II):
The Diary of Sherilyn Connelly
a fiction

last updated: 2/2 14:20 PT


 
I read your book and I find it strange
That I know that girl and I know her world a little too well
And I didn't know by giving my hand
That I would be written down, sliced around,
Passed down among strangers' hands

        Never again would I see your face
You carry a pen and a paper and no time and no words you waste
Oh, you're a voyeur, the worst kind of thief
To take what happened to us
To write down everything that went on between you and me

—Sheryl Crow, "The Book"
 
Most recent days at top, though updates over the course of the day are at the bottom of each day. Oh, you know how it works.
Names have been changed. If you're convinced something is a big mean public attack on you, that says more about you than me.

REALITY CHECK: I consider myself a writer, but not because of this page.
CONTENT WARNING (updated January 21, 2007): Depending on what month/year you're reading, this page may or may not deal with topics including but not limited to transsexuality, heartbreak, loneliness, alienation, raging self-pity, as well as sexual references both subtle and graphic. If any of these things bother you, or if I say things which conflict with your worldview, please close your browser window and grumble to yourself about how stupid and wrong I am.
STYLE ADVISORY: I overuse the following words: naturally, really, but (particularly as a conjunction), very, anyway, of course, just and I. A strong tolerance for semicolons, parentheses and dashes is also recommended.
TYPO CAVEAT: While spelling is one of my strong suits, you wouldn't know it to read these pages, which are essentially several years' worth of sloppy rough drafts. (Seriously. I'm embarrassed by how rough a lot of it is.) Feel free to point out typos.
SEMANTIC QUIBBLE: This is not a blog, it's an online diary. There's a difference, honestly. (Wanna know what's really funny? "Accidentally" calling it a blog. Comic gold!)




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Thursday, 2 February 2012 (another way of caring)
2:15pm


No pilates last night. Instead, I picked up Davina and went into the Mission to see Marta read at a show. Davina and I arrived fairly early, however (and Marta was getting there under her own power), so we went into the El Rio for a drink first, and kinda lost track of time. We got to the show well after it had started, and after Marta had arrived (as had Porter) but she hadn't read yet, so it worked out fine. She was the highlight of the show, naturally, and afterward the four of us returned to the El Rio and stayed until midnight. It was the fun late night out with friends that neither Saturday nor Sunday had managed to be. I've been mild sleep-deprived today, but it was worth it.

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Wednesday, 1 February 2012 (parallel timeline with alternate outcome)
9:46am


The first (of what will be well over two dozen posts, if my math is right) about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is up. And in a little while, I head to Lyon-Martin.

12:56pm

At It's Tops, enjoying Susan's Spicy Spuds again. And I'll probably do it again when I return to Lyon-Martin yet again for a Healthy San Francisco re-up.

Blood was drawn to check on the whole liver enzyme thing, but my doctor doesn't seem too worried, since I'm healthy otherwise (my cholestrol is in the double digits!) and don't really have any signfiant risk factors. They're also going to call in my prescription refill to the Pharmacy, and issue me a new "certification from an attending medical physician that the applicant has undergone appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition" thingy. Well, the same one as they gave me in 2010, but one with a more current date, since only a terrorist would try to get a passport in 2012 using a document dated 2010.

Also, I clocked in at 179 lbs, and that was with not wearing my boots or jacket. Not bad at all.

3:12pm

Oh, I think I may just get pancakes next time. The Spuds are feeling unpleasantly heavy in my stomach—which, I suppose, is something of a good sign.

There have been very few responses to the Pony article, but unsurprisingly, the recurring theme is "bronies lol". I expect a lot more of that, even if I never use the word.

I've been talking to with the publisher who contacted me last night, as well as one of my friends who's been published by them. So far, it all seems on the up-and-up, and My Agent says I should go for it (though she's going to of course continue representing me on Bottomfeeder and Landing on Water and whatever comes after that memoir-wise). So.

I also got a Friend request on Facebook from the woman who played the daughter in Manos: The Hands of Fate, because she liked my article about the restoration in the weekly. To quote Barefoot yet again: ah, life, it's just so fucking weird. But in the best way possible.

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