See also: reading Andrew Matthews' The Flip Side (very of-it's-time; conflates gender expression with sexual orientation; pickings were limited for genderqueer youth in 2001, ok), lying on my bed listening to OK Computer on headphones, then going for a driving lesson with thoughts awhirl.
When I was 17 or so, I had Wednesday afternoons off school. I would go to the library on my way home, and one week I picked up a ?Midwinter Night's Dream - a queer teen novel that I can't locate online - and spent my afternoon hanging upside down off the sofa reading it in one delicious gulp.
Oh holy wow this poem, y'all. grateful.org/resource/wat...
It was fiendishly hot, I was in a very bad mood, my PhD supervisor was on holiday, and I was going a bit feral. I took myself to see Mamma Mia at 3pm on a weekday and it was exquisite and just what I needed.
This week I finally got to swim at the hydrotherapy pool down the road - they run community sessions in the evening, but slots are hard to get. 30 minutes of absolute sensory bliss that left my poor sore musculoskeletal system feeling like noodles in the best way, and I can go every week. Vg.
It is so, so endometriosis unfriendly! (And unfriendly to myriad other groups, I know.) I raised it with HR recently and they were so kind, but ultimately couldn't be very helpful (and clearly regretted that they couldn't). Being a working disabled feels so precarious so often.
So my work's recently become an endometriosis-friendly employer, and I am laughing hollowly. I WFH nearly exclusively due to endo, but all the flexibility in the world cannot change the extreme horror of the series of fixed-term contracts I've been on due to the type of role I do.
Hats off to past!Kate, who wrote 75% of this week's seminar three months ago. That's... unprecedented, frankly. Also hats off to today's Kate, who's negotiated presenting from home due to an ill-timed endo flare.
It’s peak me to celebrate a decade of being a Guide leader by starting a Ranger unit - and immediately acquiring 9 girls aged 14-16.(Technically it’s a joint Guide & Ranger unit, as administratively that’s the only way it works.) Today we had our first side by side meeting and it was *chef’s kiss*
I’ll never forget my senior colleague unplugging the fax machine, and her expression *daring* the medics in the room, who were clamouring to use it, to argue with her. It was 2019.
