Hmmm… just been reading over a whole bunch of diary entries. That was because I was making a disc for Mum of the ones which she doesn't have. The early stuff is particularly interesting, I'm just not sure why.
Got up latish and was in the lab by about 10:30 am. I went for the drop earrings today for a bit of variety. I had my hair up and they were quite startlingly obvious, so the odd stare was amusing. I'll go subtle tomorrow to make up for it. I got the letter in which Mum had urged me to go off the pills and lead a normal existence. Going off my hormone therapy after so many years of struggling to get to this point would be akin to me asking her never to pray or go to Church again. I wasn't angry at the letter, just a bit frustrated. Thankfully she had felt a bit bad after mailing it and she had phoned and given me warning.
I tried the reaction which hadn't worked yesterday again with a different solvent. However when I ran the NMR at 12:00 pm it quite obviously hadn't worked. This was a very annoying state of affairs, so I did another library search and turned up nothing. I had a quick coffee with Red because she had just finished a big French oral exam. I was feeling pretty crappy because I had some sort of flu thing. I got back, toyed with the idea of going home but instead popped a few Aspirin and got back to work. I fell back to making my compound through the old method which I had known about for a while. This is reasonably tedious, but I got it set up on the 10 gram scale and it worked pretty well for the first step. I had a very nice orange cake sitting on the filter after a hour or so of work. This is where it went a bit wrong. I figured I would wash out the excess water with ethanol, so I poured some on and filtered it through. A few seconds after that, flames started appearing and sparking. I was a bit alarmed at this and poured large amounts of water on which caused most of my compound to be lost and what little remained was blackened and charred. Still I was reasonably happy because the material could be easily made at least through to the half way point. It was 5:00 pm at that point and my flu and dripping nose hadn't improved so I figured I'd call it a day. I came home and ate most of the last of my food. I even ate the cup-o-noodles which had been sitting under my sink for God knows how long. After that Mum called and said hello and we chatted for a bit which was nice, she seemed amused by the combusting reaction. ;) After that I crashed out ~6:30 pm.
I was half awake when Jules knocked on the door at about 8:45 pm. We had a brief chat, but I was still half asleep and wasn't the greatest conversationalist.
Oh yeah, I got an email from Jen today! It was such a cool thing to get because I know how flat out she is these days in Palau. I won't go into too much detail, but she was being informative and supporting and just generally friendly. I figured out two important things today. One, I get doubts about my Gender Dysphoria when there are no other Tranny's about, but now that I realize that fact, I can be prepared for it. Also, I've been equating going full-time with the speed with which my body is changing. This I realize isn't a thing that is set in concrete, because I can still "role-play" as a guy long after my body has undergone a radical metamorphosis. Without other people to remind you, any old silly idea can seem logical, and all the Canberra Tranny's have gone away for the moment. Still, I haven't made any huge blunders, so I think I'm doing Ok on my own for the moment. :)

No way! There is no way in hell that I've just out on 2-3 kg! I think it was the enormous dinner I had tonight. It had better be, cause I haven't been eating that much else… :( I ate heaps so my body would have energy to fight this damn flu…
I left the milk I bought over at the lab, so I think I'll be missing breakfast at home yet again.

11:15 pm - Tried updating my hormones section when the browser crashed out. I won't do it again tonight as I'll be heading to bed pretty soon. I'm just chatting with Krissy on ICQ and then I'll head off. Tomorrow is Thursday, so that'll be shower and shave day.

12:00 am - Ok, I'm beat, I'm gone…