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I'm still going to APE CAVE on Sunday and have gotten much sage advice about lights.
Accomplishments and good things since last posting:
- Cleaning my room for three hours of focused energetic time on Saturday. (Thanks, Bretts!)
- Sorting my paperwork for an hour of focused energetic time on Sunday. (Thanks, Pepper*!)
- Literally innumerable phone calls and emails (I have no idea how many).
- Ordering $100 worth of flashlights for APE CAVE.
- Receiving a new and beautiful Rainbow-Dash-blue ukulele. SO COOL.
- COMING OUT TO 50,000 Stark Industries** employees yesterday as genderqueer and preferring "they" pronouns via company newsletter. That was a hell of a shot of adrenaline this morning. I came in to a dozen congratulatory emails from coworkers on being featured. (None commented on the gender or pronoun content, which was actually the main possibility I was stressing about***, so this is ideal.)
* I'll keep calling my personal assistant Pepper here, especially since the company owner who is the best at paperwork took my assignment because I need the logistical heavy hitter.
** I've decided to start pseudonymizing my company as Stark Industries because that would be cooler than the truth, and because it's canonical that they are in the same industry space.
*** I have a few layers of pronoun personal space. Coworkers are in the "I could tell you, but then I'd have to resent it when you get it wrong and everything would feel awkward, so let's just not" zone. Before I agreed to the article, I had to make a personal decision about how I would handle it if people in my working group asked about using my pronouns.
Accomplishments and good things since last posting:
- Cleaning my room for three hours of focused energetic time on Saturday. (Thanks, Bretts!)
- Sorting my paperwork for an hour of focused energetic time on Sunday. (Thanks, Pepper*!)
- Literally innumerable phone calls and emails (I have no idea how many).
- Ordering $100 worth of flashlights for APE CAVE.
- Receiving a new and beautiful Rainbow-Dash-blue ukulele. SO COOL.
- COMING OUT TO 50,000 Stark Industries** employees yesterday as genderqueer and preferring "they" pronouns via company newsletter. That was a hell of a shot of adrenaline this morning. I came in to a dozen congratulatory emails from coworkers on being featured. (None commented on the gender or pronoun content, which was actually the main possibility I was stressing about***, so this is ideal.)
* I'll keep calling my personal assistant Pepper here, especially since the company owner who is the best at paperwork took my assignment because I need the logistical heavy hitter.
** I've decided to start pseudonymizing my company as Stark Industries because that would be cooler than the truth, and because it's canonical that they are in the same industry space.
*** I have a few layers of pronoun personal space. Coworkers are in the "I could tell you, but then I'd have to resent it when you get it wrong and everything would feel awkward, so let's just not" zone. Before I agreed to the article, I had to make a personal decision about how I would handle it if people in my working group asked about using my pronouns.
