I love being busy. Absolutely love it. Yesterday I undertook a design challenge for postgrad class which involved tearing round the city on my bike, taking video and camera footage along the Mt Vic tunnel, then rushing back to Massey and coming up with a design proposal and presentation. This was a condensed version and trial of our next exercise, and I think I did pretty well going by the reactions of the rest of the class. I was exhausted when I got home and then it was off up to see two close friends of mine to discuss a personal project and eat delicious things until quite late.
This epic day really finished off a very busy week, so taking time out today to blob around, catch up with a couple of friends later on for cafe missions and generally relax has highlighted for me the value of taking a Sunday, or Sabbath or just whatever day you can fit in to not think about everything that's going on and let the brain meats reboot.
Time for another cup of tea.
4 comments:
Good plan, wish I was organised enough to follow it :S
The entire world is your safe space; I have very few places where I can feel safe and talk about my issues. Please leave WYFC, or do something to prove that you are not longer a transphobe.
I don't really want to leave WYFC since a lot of my friends are involved in that group and I think they're doing really good things, so I guess it's option B since I want you to feel that it's a safe place for you to remain in.
I'm sorry for the way I commented on that discussion board, it was ham fisted of me and as much as I wanted to be involved in the conversation I also wanted you to know I was in the group before the launch party. I figured it would be better than surprising you at the event, but I should have thought that through some more and maybe gotten the admins to notify you or something. I've been quite rightly slapped around the head by others for my approach.
As for proving that I'm not a transphobe... I'm not sure I can, to your satisfaction. I've learned a lot over the past year about my privilege and what you've had to go through. Unfortunately that's been all mixed up in our mutual antagonism and past history of being ex friends. How do I make a promise or apology and not have it filtered through everything that's been said and done?
I guess all I can offer without any disingenuousness is that I'm trying my best not to be transphobic or misogynist and that sometimes I'll fuck it up. I do regret and I am sorry for what happened a year ago. I specially regret lying to the person involved over the phone about it.
That's all I can really say right now, I think. Hopefully that's enough to make you feel like you can stay on with the WYFC.
Thank you.
That was really well written and goes a long way towards making WYFC seem a much safer place.
I'll pass on your apology to the relevant persons.
I don't know if certain bridges will ever be mended, but this is much better than throwing Molotovs at each other across the divide.
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