now it feels like a vacation :-)

Sunday morning!  Parking expires at 2pm, so before then I'll head back to the house, and I won't have to work until Wednesday!  So, now it feels like I'm really on a vacation :-)

I'm expecting to play a video game, maybe a Gloomhaven scenario, and spend time in the hot tub :-)  Tuesday morning we have to drop my car off for service, and then pick it back up, that's the only obligation.

yay!

Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker made it onto the Maryland ballot, as the Green ticket :-)  I'm voting Green!

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These are the "battleground" states this year (according to where the SuperPACs are spending): Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Wisconsin.  If you don't live in one of these states you can safely vote for whomever you want.

"Tell Me Why"

Started playing the video game Tell Me Why this afternoon.  I'd classify it more as interactive fiction than a game.  But you "play" as a young transgender man who reunites with his sister to head back to their childhood home ...

Seems appropriate for me to role play as a transgender man after picking on the concept of gender in my journal.  Struggling with being brought up as a girl, my character wanted to do boy things instead.  Reminds me of when I was a boy, sometimes I wanted to do girl things instead.  I played jump rope with the girls in 4th grade instead of kickball with the guys.  My mother taught me needlepoint.  In 6th or 7th grade some male friends and I performed a play for the entire school in which we portrayed women characters, wore dresses and wigs.

Then I started falling in love with other guys.

Anyway, the story is not about me.  The story is pretty good so far, setting off some of my emotions as I'm here at the house, processing the actual fact of K moving to Portland.  I told T about the news, and he was supportive, saying now I'd have a reason to visit Portland.  And K will continue to own the condo here and to work for his employer who is headquartered here.  Not like I'll never see K again, but it will be less often than every week or two.  The time between will be measured in months, not weeks, but also not years.  We will likely take trips together as we did before Quarantine.

It did cheer me when Robin said he was still interested in meeting up with me for toy time at the condo.  I haven't arranged any such things (with anybody except K) since Quarantine began in March.  The monthly play parties have been suspended, of course, so I haven't seen any of my play buddies.  Haven't seen Sir B :-(  Social isolation, from everybody except for T.

And K agreed to have weekly phone calls with me after they move -- we've never had an agreement like that before.  K said I'm as important to him as he is to me, he's not going to disappear from my life, but he's never liked living in DC and now he's finally got an opening to live somewhere else.  I've also been talking about wanting to live somewhere else.  T also talks about wanting to live somewhere else.  But K is the first person to have the chance to act.

Some tough emotions this afternoon, but I'm here with T and the pets, and I know I've got supportive friends and family, and this Quarantine won't last forever, and K will remain in my life, at a reduced frequency of physical contact.  K said to me that our relationship survived the 15 months he lived in Madrid.  It will survive this change, but it's still OK for me to feel sad about it and to write about this sadness in my journal.