An apt comic title also.

My Birth Certificate, the last piece of paperwork needed, is in the hands of my lawyer. All that remains is for me to sign in all the right places, and then the filing of the paperwork and the setting of a court date. Then, the REAL work begins. Changing all my identity papers to my new name. LOL!

Well, i apparently had a large part of the middle that didnt post. dont know why. i fixed it, I hope.

Well, my Phoenix story is up. Its nearly 30,000 words long, almost three times as long as anything I have ever written. I hope people like it (and are not shy about saying so)

Well, I want to thank publicly everyone who sent me some support after my last entry. Somehow, just writing it down, getting it out in the open, made a huge difference, and the support I got pulled me the rest of the way back up the hill. That doesn't mean I wont ever struggle with not feeling "pretty" again, but I think as long as I remember I don't have to listen to that feeling, I will be okay. Meanwhile, I am reaching the home stretch in terms of my Phoenix story. I have one last issue to figure out, and that is; do I let them actually make love? Or not? Its a nice problem to have....

Hi all. Just a note here. I added a bit to the story so you all would know that it wasn't an identity death story.

Maggie

Hello Wow snow, rain, temp up to 38 F , then rain,ice then snow
what a day and they say snow is comming again LOL LOL LOL any body want some water? (solid in form of hard pack snow ) come get it it is free heheh LOL LOL you must pick up though free clump of cat fur (color white ) with every pick-up hope everyone stays warm and dry have a nice day

christi

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/white-house-anno...

The White House made history in two ways Friday, when it announced Jeremy Bernard as its new social secretary -- the first man and the first openly gay person to fill that role.

Bernard, who is currently the Senior Advisor to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, will replace Julianna Smoot, the White House announced.

I play this game called Runescape, here is the link.

http://www.runescape.com/title.ws

The graphics are extremely well done and I was wondering if anyone else on this site plays this game as well.

If you don't but are interested in trying it out and I could help you. It is an MMORPG or a massively multi-player online role playing game. However it is relatively simple and the user interface is not complex.

If either of the above are true PM me on this site will guarantee that I see your message and get back to you.

Authors of transgender fiction have written many stories on the theme of the male who became a female fashion model. What is it they say about "truth is stranger than fiction?" A young Serbian-Australian man is now the hottest thing on the female fashion runways of London and Paris. His* story trumps many of the fictional ones I've enjoyed reading here.

Here is an interview by an Australian television station with Andrej Pejic, his family, peers, and others in the fashion world.

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/-/watch/24174190/

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Hiya! To help people keep up with where the Year of Challenges is at, here's an update of what's going to be due in March:

Interesting article from Salon.

I have been fighting a losing battle with negative self-image lately, and yesterday, I think I figured out why. I was working in the health and beauty department, restocking the hair color isle, when it hit me. Every box I put on the shelf had a picture of a beautiful woman, with flawless skin, amazing hair, and all the rest. Each picture was like water torture, eroding my ability to see myself as passable, much less pretty. I have to keep fighting this feeling. Despair is deadly.

I have just started on a possible sequal to Princess and the Plague, which I guess is a sequal to Camp Kumoni. I have some ideas, but am not quite sure how I want to play them out. I want to get a few episodes written before I begin posting, It might be a few weeks, but wanted to let you know that I haven't given up on the story, yet.

A.A.

p.s. I'm still trying to come up with a title for it too.

We had a productive but fairly technical chat meeting last night and hammered out some details of how the book will look and calculated again to be sure we can get 150,000 words into 320 pages of an 8x10 trade paperback with nice margins and typography. It is not only doable, I think it will be quite a handsome book!

Here's the idea, a trade paperback of around 300-320 pages featuring some of the best stuff that has appeared on BigCloset over the last eleven years and perhaps some new stuff, too. The book would be 6x9 inches, more or less, and retail for $15. That's around 100,000 words, btw. The book would be available to be ordered here on BC, through Amazon and possibly through other channels. There might be an electronic edition which would probably be sold for $10. And we might put the electronic edition into the Hatbox for contributors.

Does anyone know the cost of HRT.