So I’m reading up on treatment of back pain, and all the places I go seem to suggest that doing yoga is a good way to relieve back pain. But what if you got that back pain doing yoga, hmm? Sheesh. Two weeks from fall semester now. Of course I’m still here on campus trying to take care of some Spectrum business (the Website is finally back up, by the way), but then again I knew I’d have a lot of work to do when…

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New on Backwash.com: “Life on Both Sides of the Gender Divide”. I know I haven’t talked too much about being a transsexual since I “came out” here nine months ago, but with some of the stuff that’s been going on in my life, I thought a little examination of gender-role typing and how it’s impacted my life recently might be interesting. Yes, I’m being self-absorbed and whiny again, but I think I’ve got a few nuggets of wisdom buried in there somewhere. I think.

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Nothing quite like having a bookcase fall apart on you when you’re sitting six inches in front of it to ruin your day. Yeesh. Physically I’m fine, but I think I’m going to be avoiding as many stressful situations as possible for the next few days. On the plus side, going out to window shop for bookcases gave me the chance to buy my school supplies for the fall semester, but of course I had to screw that up and buy the wrong dividers for…

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Done. Now let the vacation, or what passes for a vacation around these parts, commence. By the way, note to Slashdot: Please let me know when I can mod down posts with blatant homosexual slurs in them and not get meta-moderated negatively. Until then, I don’t think I’ll be visiting anymore.

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So here I am, hours before my last test for my final summer course, and I’m nervous. Mind you, I studied enough last night, I’ve got things relatively “down pat” and I’m recalling things without even needing the review sheet in front of me. And yet I’m still feeling uneasy about everything. Chances are I’ll head to campus here really early, just so I don’t have all the distractions of my bedroom around me, study up for a bit, and then take the test and…

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