Hi everybody, no "Steve" here tonight, just the girl who happens to live inside his body. ;)
Yes, It's Stephanie here, Yay! I figured things were going reasonably well for that Steve and so I thought I'd give him the night off. ;) Thankfully he had a shave, otherwise that would have been pretty gross. I have to admit that it has been a very, very long time since I've been out and about properly. With the extensions in it just didn't seem right, and now with the Roaccutane making me look like a dried apricot it's been a long hard haul. However as we all know, it seems I'm finally pulling the strings in a real sense. The hormone therapy continues unabated, and of course the Ball is coming up. Certainly the make-up skills need to be resurrected, but if I practice each part about 50 times, hopefully I will get the hang of it again. The basics aren't too hard, but getting the whole thing to come together e.g. colour matching, blending and so forth is more difficult.
It is a bit frustrating at the moment I admit. With the Roaccutane I can't do any electrolysis and that is frustrating. However of course we both want the acne gone so I guess that comes first since it is one thing we can agree on. ;)
Sometimes I think about Michelle and kick myself for not waking up from my slumber earlier before this body I'm stuck in got too much testosterone. But of course at least I'm not 45 and bemoaning a lost 25 years instead of 5. At least I can see things changing, and that is gooood!
So what else has been up? Not all that much, like I said I rarely seem to get out as fully myself these days. I suppose that is fair enough, I'll let Steve get the education, and when he is earning more than a pitiful student stipend, I'll splurge it on clothes and surgery and other luxuries like that. Today he went and bought a very nice coat for me. There was a sale on at the Rex Hotel (yes, that Rex hotel) and picked up quite a nice one for only $99 so thankfully that meant he didn't have to carry it all the way back from Sydney. I say thankfully, because I can't be sure but I think our arm muscles are shrinking, particularly the left one. As for the ahem… "family jewels", the decrease in size has been rather astonishing!
It's raining tonight, so of course it would be a wonderful time to go out for a walk, but the ANU is so brightly lit (for good reasons) and I usually prefer shadows, I guess that is what you get from living on this side of the looking-glass.
OK, I guess I had better fill this in for the regular listeners who actually care what Steve got up to today. He got up early and went to the lecture course. After that he ran a UV-vis and set up another reaction to make starting material. Did lunch with Red from 12:20 pm to 1:45 pm which was very nice. She had just met up with Penny to finalize things. Went back to the lab and had to organize a few things. By then it was 3:30 pm and Red had mentioned that there was a coat sale on at the Rex. So Steve jumped on his bike cycled there and picked out a nice one. I have to admit, men certainly have the advantage in selection even for women's clothes. They either don't care if something won't match anything in the wardrobe and things just happen to match after the purchase by accident, or actually have a fashion nose so honed it is second nature and even they don't know they have it. Or maybe it's just because a black overcoat can't really clash with anything?
As he was cycling through the carpark near Dolly's, he bumped into Red and walked her to the bus-stop (chivalrous as ever *lol*) chatting all the while. Anyway, he got back to the lab at 4:30 pm when everybody else was at the seminar. Met with Nikki for a brief while and got back to work. Thankfully things seem to be going OK at the moment. He came home about 6:20 pm, had pasta for dinner (again). Red called saying the dinner was off for Friday which was unfortunate. Then being so tired, crashed out from 7:30 pm till 11:30 pm after which he shaved and showered and I jumped out to take on the world. ;)

1:40 am - It seems the only time of day that any kind of recreation gets done around here is between midnight and 2:00 am. This means I'll be heading off to the other side of reality (where ever that is) and this body will be repossessed and taken to bed. It's unusual that I think of me in terms of two minds, one body. But I like to be kept separate from Steve. I know I've mentioned a while back that I hate the half-way state which can sometimes take place. Thankfully he is moving and making the necessary compromises which I've had to make for too long. The alchemists always spoke of two main things; the duality of all things and the attempt to unite them, and alchemy as a way of elevating and purifying the human spirit. For us this means uniting the dual natures present here and by doing so, making an individual who is complete and whole and therefore enlightened. Jungian psychology rates the symbolism of alchemy very highly, and as a being in my particular circumstance, uniting the opposites has never been more important.
Anyway, at least me and Steve seem to share the same love of pseudo-intellectualism. ;) Actually, a stray thought before I depart, perhaps because my calming influence hasn't been present for so long, maybe this body has been more stressed and therefore the acne has persisted? Who knows? Perhaps if I make my appearances more regular, then I can convince this pituitary gland to switch to estrogen production? ;) Hope springs eternal. *lol*
Good night my sweet ones, hugs and kisses from the emergent one...
Stephanie.

XXX :)