Yawn… good lord, another 2 hour nap flies by. I should probably go for a run later on because I haven't been since Friday night.
Hmmm… so what's been happening? Well not a great is what I was expecting. By waking up late and then not being able to get things done, I didn't get into work until just before 12:00 pm. I bummed about because I had to go meet Szusza anyway. So I got to the corner near Essen and waited and waited and no Szusza. Stood up for the second time! So I went back to the lab and puttered about and then my supervisor came in and asked whether I had any crystals which needed to be analyzed as the diffractometer was free because the week before Xmas is so quiet. I said I hadn't even tried recrystallizing any of my samples yet. This spurred him into action, and before long we had a mass production style of recrystallizations going. It was an afternoon of good humor in the lab, with the banter flowing nicely. By the end we had 18 samples all going, the maximum number the sample holder tray would hold, and undoubtedly the greatest number of recrystallizations that have ever been put on at one time. *s*
So after that I didn't do very much except tidy up and so on. I met Nikki at 5:00 pm and had a quick chat to her before I left. She is well, and going home for Xmas to Melbourne.
I originally had planned to go home Tuesday, but because these crystals need to be looked at tomorrow morning and then possibly again on Wednesday morning also. With 18 of them going at once, it would be very big disappointment if not even one produced crystals.
So I came home at 6:00 pm, ate, did the usual stuff and then napped and here I am!
I got the book "Trans Forming Families : Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones" today. That is partially why I was late for work. I read it mostly in full tonight, and I hope it will be of some use to Mum. There is a quote I found really… something…

"I see a beautiful butterfly emerging. The caterpillar was nice and I miss him, but the butterfly is so gentle, so peaceful and so softly radiant, that I almost don't remember the warm fuzzy little guy. The butterfly will be so radiant once her wings are fully spread into the sun." - Jackie Greer.

The metaphor of a butterfly is such an obvious one, that I'm surprised it isn't used more widely. Still, the Chrysalis Club just doesn't quite have the same ring to it. *lol*
Well, diary entry # 195, at this rate I should hit the big 200 bang on Xmas.

When I think about it, I did have a bit of an untypical upbringing for someone who was/is a tranny. I can't relate to people who say they played with their sisters toys or dolls, because I had no sisters and I was raised till age 11 on a farm with no near neighbors. I don't really understand it when people say that they hung out with the girls at school, because from age 11 onwards I was sent off to an all boys boarding school, and we didn't go to a girls school for a dance until I was 16. My upbringing I admit was very female deprived, though I had always really wanted an elder sister. *sigh*
Yawn… just been reading some personal stories online, psychologists are such totally fucks.
Ok, bed time… zzzzz….