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General Discussion / Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2024
« on: February 18, 2024, 08:41:35 pm »
*inhale* HOLY SHIT I'M OFFICIALLY MIDDLE-AGED! Here's last year's post:
I think I'm going to need more time to figure out a full list. I know that these four points are on it:
1. Try for 8 - 12 opportunities that seem uncertain.
2. Earn my driver's license.
3. Participate in the Hot Fresh Reading Challenge.
4. Participate in and document Full Moon Teas throughout 2024.
Looking at last year's goals, a few of the points can be folded into some large projects that I'm working on:
- Unfucking my life post-pandemic, post-no longer being an unstable 20-something, and post-escaping my family. Time to be a real adult.
- Doing the "buying stuff and crying about hair" part of my gender transition.
- "Grad" "school." Just... grad school.
There's some categories of my life that I've never been able to make real progress with--or that are suddenly more relevant in this chapter of my life--that I really want to have some firm growth on before 35:
- Publications, speaking at and attending conferences, learning the responsibilities and habits of a public intellectual (or whatever).
- Working on relationships, whether friendship, found-familial, romantic, or otherwise. There's a kind of "learning how to live life as an uncloseted gay" thing that I need to learn how to do.
- Learn more about how to make and appreciate artwork in various mediums. This is my gift to myself for surviving.
I do need to continue working on my health but I'm not sure about keeping it as a Behemoth. My physical health is mostly "fine" now except for all of the usual ramifications of having had uncertain healthcare access due to being trans, and the added burden of side effects from pretty severe PTSD.
So I'm going through 5 or 6 medical specialists I've been referred to right now trying to fix things, making sure I get enough sleep, improving my diet, and a bunch of stuff like that. I paid for a martial arts course this quarter but haven't attended it at all while I got onboarding paperwork and my HRT sorted out. I guess that's the next step.
I'll be back in a month-ish to check in on Behemoths 1 through 4 and see if it's gotten any easier to tease proper Behemoths out of those other projects.
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I think I'm going to need more time to figure out a full list. I know that these four points are on it:
1. Try for 8 - 12 opportunities that seem uncertain.
2. Earn my driver's license.
3. Participate in the Hot Fresh Reading Challenge.
4. Participate in and document Full Moon Teas throughout 2024.
Looking at last year's goals, a few of the points can be folded into some large projects that I'm working on:
- Unfucking my life post-pandemic, post-no longer being an unstable 20-something, and post-escaping my family. Time to be a real adult.
- Doing the "buying stuff and crying about hair" part of my gender transition.
- "Grad" "school." Just... grad school.
There's some categories of my life that I've never been able to make real progress with--or that are suddenly more relevant in this chapter of my life--that I really want to have some firm growth on before 35:
- Publications, speaking at and attending conferences, learning the responsibilities and habits of a public intellectual (or whatever).
- Working on relationships, whether friendship, found-familial, romantic, or otherwise. There's a kind of "learning how to live life as an uncloseted gay" thing that I need to learn how to do.
- Learn more about how to make and appreciate artwork in various mediums. This is my gift to myself for surviving.
I do need to continue working on my health but I'm not sure about keeping it as a Behemoth. My physical health is mostly "fine" now except for all of the usual ramifications of having had uncertain healthcare access due to being trans, and the added burden of side effects from pretty severe PTSD.
So I'm going through 5 or 6 medical specialists I've been referred to right now trying to fix things, making sure I get enough sleep, improving my diet, and a bunch of stuff like that. I paid for a martial arts course this quarter but haven't attended it at all while I got onboarding paperwork and my HRT sorted out. I guess that's the next step.
I'll be back in a month-ish to check in on Behemoths 1 through 4 and see if it's gotten any easier to tease proper Behemoths out of those other projects.