Blissfully Happy

Friday, June 24, 2005

Boy or Girl?

The stressed out feelings seem to be slowly leaving. Whenever they start coming back I drop whatever I'm working on and go color in my new coloring books thanks to someone who lives at the house of girls. You're awesome!

Last night we had a cross-dresser give a presentation in my Anthropology class. The tales I could tell... not just about last night but about all my experiences with cross-dressers. Half the class was totally weirded out. This stuff is old hat for me. I'm pretty good at picking them out now. Usually I can tell if it's a guy in women's clothing even if I just see them from behind. My mother is a costumer for a local theater and I've seen many a guy prance around in a dress and heels. Some of them enjoy it more than others. Even before that I was anything but naive about those things. But for all the trans-whatever people I've been associated with no one had ever explained the point of it to me until last night. The presentation was very informative. I still don't think I'll ever understand what drives these people but that doesn't mean I won't be nice to them. I don't condone their lifestyle or the things they do but I will never treat them the way I've seen others treated for being different.

I think I'm going to do my critical commentary paper on blogs and blogging. I'm not sure yet what opinionated approach I'm going to take so any suggestions are welcome. I want it to be informative but I still have to take some critical side. Hmmm... I'll have to think a little more on this.

Tonight Hubby and I are going to see Napoleon Dynamite at the fairgrounds for Free Friday Flicks. We've never done this before so I don't know exactly what to expect but it's free and it should be fun. I expect it will be like on the Wedding Planner where they watch old movies on the side of a building in the park. I'll let you know. Anybody who wants to is welcome to join us. Should be fun.