Milwaukee / Southern Wisconsin folk?

[jenaflynn.livejournal.com]

Just wondering if there's any Milwaukee / Southern Wisconsin folk (MtF or FtM or whatever) around here? Just looking to swap e-mails, and know who else is out here. I can't be the only trans-person in Brewcity / Racine / Kenosha. :-)

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[savannahkestrel.livejournal.com]

Well. Been a while since I've been here. Maybe some of you remember me.. maybe not. It's been a year or more. I first came here with issues deciding if I should even transition.. now I sit in from of the screen more than a year into it.

The past few months have been a whirl of change for me. I used to sit in front of the computer and basically.. do this. Type a whole lot. Converse with people I'd probably never meet, invest endless hours into World of Warcraft, browse websites, get caught up in meaningless drama, etc.

Now.. I'm.. a jumberjack. And I'm okay. -- Heh..heh..heh. I had to. It's kind of hard not to. I joined the California Conservation Corps (www.ccc.ca.gov) a few months ago. The culmination of a bad home and no where to go led me few other options.

I joined the C's, as we lovingly say, and I was sent on a wildland fire the day I finished training... In Happy Camp, CA. A**crack of the state, that place is. Was there for 28 days working 17 hours a day. It was.. interesting. Then worked a Renessaince Faire in San Francisco the day after I returned from the fire. And now am working local projects. It's all terribly boring and hard work. Well, sort of.

I just finished training and am a type II firefighter now and a class C sawyer (That's people who chop trees down with chainsaws)... And many more certifications to come alond with 11k$ scholarship...

But, that's not the point of this.

I changed my name to Savannah Kestral on May 30th. Came to where I am now (The South Lake Tahoe Center) as I am. No one suspected a thing.. Having laser done the day before I left.. (Seeing how I despise facial hair) all was well. Eh-heh. During the fire, I sort of "came out" to another girl on my crew just because I needed someone to talk to. Tired of feeling like I'm hiding from everyone. She seemed okay and all and I asked her to tell me if she ever felt uncomfortable or such. Seemed okay.

Come back from the fire, and we're roomates. A week after being back and settled, she goes to the in-camp supervisor (The person in charge of rooming and building stuff) and tells him everything I told her and how she was uncomfortable. I get called in and told that she was 'uncomfortable' and that they were working on a "solution". And that's it, that was on a Friday. Leaving me to wonder until Monday.

Turns out, they called HQ in Sacramento and faxed my court documents and DL-328 to them and asked for permission to room me with the guys. (Hah! That would have done wonders. I would have been harassed endlessly. ) Or the other solution was to have her move out and have me bunk alone... an idea I'm not opposed to. Well, HQ ruled that since I have all my paperwork, they can only bunk me with the girls. So, tough luck there. All they could do was switch my current roomate with someone else... After she got wind of that, she refused to move. (Since our room bunks 2 the others bunk 7.)

Now I'm stuck living with this person. -.-

Secondly! I haven't had laser in 7 weeks. My face looks like I took a sharpie to it liberally. I'm freaking out. I feel like crap and I look like crap. Though, tomorrow I go into a laser place for a consultation.. I was told it will cost anywhere between 150$ to 400$ depending on how it is on my face. 400$? Pretty steep price.. but what can I do? I'm in South Lake Tahoe. Pretty podunk tourist town. Not much choice here.

Heh, thanks.. I just needed somewhere to vent to. I haven't been able to speak to anyone for a long time about any of this. -_-