Sept. 11 Anniversary

This is stolen from aerindipity who stole it from...well, someone else.

As everyone knows, we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Everyone is discussing how the best memorialize the event, and the people lost. Here's my two cents.

A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.

So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.

Yeah. I totally agree. Let's do this, people.

PDAMS (Pre, During and After Menstrual Sydrome, my dad calls it...)

Is it just me, or are there quite a few people dealing with PMS and/or that time of the month today?

This phenomenon mystifies me, always has. I don't get PMS, never did. The first day I'm cranky if I don't get painkillers, but that's because it hurts like a bitch without drugs. That's it.

Now, I don't want to give anyone the impression that I don't think PMS is "real." I do. Both my mother and my sister get it, I'm not going to say any B.S like "oh, it's all in your head," because my mother lectured me quite sternly about that when I was 12. She told me all kinds of horror stories about puking in gym class and so on, and generally managed to convince me of it's existence. PMS is just an alien thing to me. (In a way, that's a relief, but on the other hand, it would be nice to have a heads-up. I don't keep very good track of the days, and it might help sometimes if I WASN'T a chipper boy beforehand.)

I was just discussing this with my mother last night actually, and asked her why so many women get PMS and I do not, despite my annoying femaleness. (Yes, I expect my mother to have all the answers.) She told me that some women do, some don't. It all depends on levels of hormones.

Which got me thinking...

I wonder if there's any connection at all to my being trans? I mean, obviously that is not the case in all or even most tranny boys. I'm pretty sure most of the guys I know get PMS. Still...it would be interesting to know if you are more likely not to PMS if you're trans, lez or bi.

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Note to self: Get too mad too quickly at things online. Where in real life I would clam up and smolder, online I respond before I think. Neither does me any good.

Got to work on that.

Further note to self: Need a journal to rant in, purely for ranting, so do not make stupid fuck of self.

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