12:40 am Friday 14th January 2000

Yawn… should go to bed soon, I do have stuff I should go back and turn off at the lab, but I'm just too stuffed. In theory I should have been going down to Berri this weekend. Tomorrow is Soba's last day at work, but there's no point heading down until we find out whether she has got the new job yet. So maybe next weekend might be likely if she doesn't get the job, I certainly hope she does get it.
What else? Another boring day at work, no starting materials and although I did my work there wasn't any joy in it. I came home and had pizza for dinner then a snooze and then a chat to Peta B and then some Manga.

2:00 am - Blah… another late night. I just did another spur of the moment order from Amazon and ordered the much praised "Mom, I need to be a girl" by Evelyn. I've heard a lot about this book, and although my own parental revelation comes 10 years later than the subject of the book, I hope it will be useful. I spoke with Mum on the phone this afternoon, and she mentioned that she had read the notes I had photocopied from Frank Lewins "Transsexual in Society" and my diary entries. She seemed reasonably happy, calm and reassured that I wasn't going to jump down my supervisors throat and "drop the bomb" on him as soon as he had gotten back. I said that any thought of full-time was several years off at least (IMHO) and that I was happy, and I wasn't; as an example in the notes showed, thinking that getting GRS would suddenly make my life wonderful. She read the "Transforming families" book I got her, and I think that helped, but I didn't specifically ask.

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