{"id":37,"date":"2014-10-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/ait\/?p=37"},"modified":"2018-02-21T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T02:20:53","slug":"day-15-out-of-closet-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblegirl.com\/sotheresthat\/day-15-out-of-closet-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 15: Out of the Closet, Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"

My son heads to school at zero dark thirty Monday morning, and I decide today is boy mode. No need to push it. I have all the time in the world, to paraphrase Louis Armstrong from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service<\/i>. As long as I’m not shot by Blofeld in the end, I should be good.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean I’m not making progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I’ve told my son, I can literally come out of the closet. Or at least my wardrobe can.<\/span><\/p>\n

But first things first. I need to pack up my comic book collection from the Ikea shelves in my bedroom. Yes, I am a geek. A divorced geek. And to quote Jonathan Coulton, “Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a long process as I need to catalogue what goes in the short boxes (didn’t I tell you I’m a geek?), but I finally start to create some space. One shelf unit for girl t-shirts. Another for yoga pants and jeans. And a third for long skirts.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a small step. But a big one at the same time. No more hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before long, my son comes home from school and we start to discuss what adjective we should use to describe this experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, it’s crazy. And it’s nuts. And it’s insane. But we need something non-disparaging we can both use to get across the fact that this is not exactly what someone expects out of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weird? Too negative.<\/span><\/p>\n

Odd? Ditto.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strange? Houston, we have a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funky? Hmmm… this one has potential. As in, this music is funky (hopefully not<\/i> like, that cheese smells funky).<\/span><\/p>\n

To quote Urban Dictionary: Different, but cool\/nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, I kinda like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funky.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: When I began transitioning in 2014, I was known by my nickname DiG, which sufficed until I learned my mom had chosen Jennifer had my birth gone differently. So for historical sake, I leave my posts and podcasts as originally conceived, but know that my name is and apparently always was Jen.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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