Stilton: Good that she's using the season to get back to where she was before. The pressure of Christmas shopping has a way of focusing the mind. :-) How does the leaving one wife to Asia thing work? Were you out there once? I wonder if transvestitism is only a male to female thing, or if there are female transvestites. Many women wear masculine clothes, so its difficult to work out where the line between one camp and the next lies. It seems like there are more subtleties between gender types than there has been before, and more new types being added to the mix. It can confuse an ageing Viking...
superstande: Yeah I've done some travelling to Asia before. In another life :)
There were quite a lot of male-turned-women transvestites in Southeast Asia. I guess men put a lot more effort in the changing business, didn't see many women trying to be men :)
Yeah it can be confusing, but I guess people want to try new things :) I know a person who was first straight, then turned transvestite, and I think he's straight again now... can be a bit confusing :)
Its sort of sad that so many people aren't they way they want to be, or society doesn't accept them because they don't conform to expected types. Its also very positive that they're becoming what makes them comfortable. Being straight all my life I've never had cause to doubt my gender or the position it gives me in society. But gender has such a huge influence on what a person wants to be and do. I'm sure a lot of people have an unpleasant and unnecessarily tough time.
NoNewTaleToTell: I have a tiny bit of formal training on guitar and drums, maybe a years worth if you put them end to end. Honestly I can count the guitar lessons as the instructor was about useless and spent half of each lesson doing nothing but stuff like gossiping about what he saw at the cinema. Other than that, I'm completely self trained...for worse and worse haha, I've been focusing on getting my composing really up to snuff the past few months.
Do you play any instruments or anything?
I played drums a bit at school, but it always sounded like someone throwing a load of luggage down a steep flight of stairs, so I stopped. My creativity is the visual kind. Its basically all I've ever done. I went through art college and then worked for a while at the Royal Opera House in London painting scenery. It was a great place to work.
AgentBirdnest: Good morning, everyone... Happy weekend. *sleepy hugs and waves*
Hi, Agent. :-) How are you doing? Is Christmas pleasing you or stressing you a bit?
AgentBirdnest: Good morning, everyone... Happy weekend. *sleepy hugs and waves*
NoNewTaleToTell: Hello! Oh man it is Saturday isn't it? I could've sworn that yesterday was Wednesday.
Note to self: Stop sleeping ten hours a day. If only I got that much. I only managed 4 hours last night. My body clock is whacked.