One Hundred; June 24 2026

Ended one class, began another! I finished off my class on Sexuality and Gender with a grade of 93% (it would’ve been higher, too, if not for that pesky assignment in which I had to troubleshoot my thesis). I got 100% on both my midterm and my final exam. Now I’m learning ASL, and it’s a lot of fun so far!

I also just passed the anniversary of when I started testosterone. Wild to think it hasn’t actually been that long? I started on June 22, 2020. I’m only ever misgendered now over the phone, when I’m speaking in a natural register and it’s just ambiguous enough for the stranger on the other end to guess ‘woman’.

Work/writing outside of school has been slower than I’d like. I’ve been more exhausted than usual – chronic fatigue is kicking my ass and I almost always need a nap not long after I wake up in the morning. I can’t tell if it’s seasonal or if it’s other factors at work. I have been going pretty hard on assignments… Maybe that’s to blame.

Hopefully I have the time and will to delve into this new story I’m writing, though. It’s a different type of horror than I usually do, and I’m including some representation in my main character that I don’t get to see very often. I really hope I do it justice, but that’s all I’ll say on that front for now!

Also keep your fingers crossed for me, because tonight, I find out whether or not I progressed to the next round of the NYC Midnight 100-word competition! Even if I didn’t move on to the finals, I’m honoured to have gotten past round 1.

(But it’d still be really cool to be a finalist.)