I'm baack...

Yeah, okay, I know... it's been more than 4 months since I've updated this blog. My only excuse is that things have been hectic, moving faster than my ability to write about them... sometimes even faster than my ability to understand them!

To pick up more or less where I left off:

Nickie and I are still together, our relationship even stronger than when I wrote about it in December. She has given up her cute little apartment and moved into Chaos Central with me (proof in itself that she's either nuts about me or just plain nuts). We are partners in every way, planning our future together and pooling our resources and our liabilities. It continues to be the best relationship I've ever had, and I am allowing myself to believe that it might actually last. It just feels right.

It has now been 6 months since I went to work as myself; everyone at the office seems pretty used to it all now, and any initial awkwardness is gone. The only downside has been having to get up earlier to get ready for work and having to spend more money on decent work outfits. That's okay, I'll deal with it!

You may have heard about Steve (Susan) Stanton, the Largo city manager who was fired after announcing his intention to transition. We have the same therapist, and I have met him a few times. I became pretty involved in the politics that came out of it, taking part in a support rally and speaking in his support at the final hearing for his job.

As you probably know, he lost his appeal, but there may be a larger win to come out of the whole affair. He has announced his plans to work educating the public about transgender issues, and the whole atmosphere of political activism that came about has inspired a group of us to push for a county-wide human rights ordinance including employment and housing protections in matters of gender identity and expression.

Let's see, what else... well, I filed my legal change of name about a month ago, and I'm hoping that comes through in the next few weeks. Once it does I can get my license and my social security card changed and I can stop being that guy completely. I've already decided that when that happens, I'm throwing a wake.

Well, I guess that's it for now. I'll try to write more regularly in the future; I already have a few ideas of things I want to write about, and I'll do a better job of keeping up with changes.

It's funny... now that I'm becoming the person I was meant to be, I'm finding that I actually have a life!