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Many, I'm thinking. :)
Sep. 15th, 2009
Many, I'm thinking. :)
Weight Watchers, week 17
Sep. 15th, 2009 09:05 amNo change this week—held precisely steady. It was a week of environmental allergies and also of taking major stress-disengagement steps, so I'm not complaining too hard. Now I need to go through and check to make sure no big sloppiness crept into my meal planning while I was dealing with other stuff.
Just plain a good day
Sep. 15th, 2009 09:02 pmIt would not have occurred to me this morning that it would turn out to be a fine day. I am drastically short on sleep and allergy-ridden to beat the band. And yet it has been a fine day. I got a burst of productive commercial writing done, had a good counseling session, took a bunch of photos I'm happy to share, made plans for WoW action with friends, found my weight starting to move down again, and like that. Sometimes the goodness comes whether you're ready or not, I guess. :)
This isn't an announcement of a decision made or anything close to it; this is me thinking aloud and knowing I'm in the very early stages of consideration. I like to be clear about the difference.
In the wake of turn off social media presences in my legal name I find myself, first of all, really, really enjoying the mental quiet. More time to be purely at my own pace, thinking my own thoughts. I'm in touch with nearly everyone I want to still be in touch with, but at a slower tempo. So that's good right there.
What I've been wondering about the last couple days is just how much of a tie I ever want there to be publicly between my old identity and my new one. It's not an impermeable wall or anything, I've written far too much overlapping stuff already for that. (I mean, I could ditch this choice of name and start over but I don't really feel inclined to do that.) The deal is that my surname is rare in the first place and very rare in my professional field, so much so that it'd pretty much always be a flag "yep, that's me".
Wondering in an idle sort of way whether I want to have that happen or not.
In the wake of turn off social media presences in my legal name I find myself, first of all, really, really enjoying the mental quiet. More time to be purely at my own pace, thinking my own thoughts. I'm in touch with nearly everyone I want to still be in touch with, but at a slower tempo. So that's good right there.
What I've been wondering about the last couple days is just how much of a tie I ever want there to be publicly between my old identity and my new one. It's not an impermeable wall or anything, I've written far too much overlapping stuff already for that. (I mean, I could ditch this choice of name and start over but I don't really feel inclined to do that.) The deal is that my surname is rare in the first place and very rare in my professional field, so much so that it'd pretty much always be a flag "yep, that's me".
Wondering in an idle sort of way whether I want to have that happen or not.