Newp, it doesn't. But, bad as it is for me to admit, it's amusing to watch. And I love getting the opportunity to know your trials and tribs as a teacher. What can I say? I'm a daughter of teachers.
Which is where I note that one of the guys I work with/harangue most? Is now officemate with one of my dad's former grad students/guy who got the bonus when the company hired me for passing my resume along. Gonna be interesting, being me (unh, irreverent is the least of the terms used to describe my relationship with H) in front of a guy who first met me when I was FOUR and is a manager. I've had childhood meltdowns in front of this dude.
I've missed you, Kat.
I love little boys. And my parents. From my mom:
Discussion in backseat between J [bro]& D[neph] about a green bug turned into a discussion about whether it was a bug or a flying booger. K[my dad] asked if D was going to eat it and D said, "Who would want to eat ...a nice little green bug?" And then K asked, "Do you eat boogers?" and the response was, "Not somebody else's, that's gross!"
Timelies all!
Our dance group had a performance at the Zoo this evening.(The SCA barony we're associated with had a medieval village set up for the Zoo's Guppy Gala)
Tomorrow will be errands.
Sunday we're planning to go to the Potomac Celtic Festival.
sarameg, you never said why you were mad at ITAR. Have you been exporting munitions again?
ITAR may be making my life difficult in a new and different way. All because I deal with a public satellite with peculiar public access rules. You can't blow anything up with my satellite . Can crash it into Australia, I guess?
Ah, JPL how I've missed you. Two postdocs with expiring visas you say? At 4pm on a Friday? I shall rescue.
ITAR is a thorny hatful rat's nest, sarameg.
I have a pronoun etiquette question. When referring to a transsexual person, describing something that happened before transitioning, which pronoun do you use? Like, if talking about something that Chastity Bono said a few years ago, is that "he said" or "she said"? What about as a little kid -- "her father sang to her" or "his father sang to him"? (I can come up with a logical argument for either, so I want to know which is the way it's usually/supposed to be done.)
I'd go with "When his father sang to her" or "When he was a little girl..."
I think its beautiful, you know? I know a man that I knew as a woman in college, it gets pretty smooth afer a while. It quickly became pretty easy to say "When Julian and I were in college she and I... blah blah blah". I suppose if someone says it the other way its not noteworthy either.
Of course, we're pretty blessed in our happy art fag context. When someone has to make a whole new social circle in order to transition the pronouns might well be more fraught.
I know (or HOPE anyway!) that Chaz is doing this for himself, he shouldn't have to blaze anyone's trail... but since he's going to be the first transitioning person that many people "know," and they'll have the chance to get over their pronoun shock in a relatively un-intimate setting, he's going to spare a lot of people a lot of pain. It's a tremendous gift to give and I find it quite moving.
