Katy Swain

@katyswain
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The enormous old #trans woman you often see around #Carlton, the CBD and all the quality #Melbourne inner suburbs. You can't miss me; I look like the love child of Eleanor Bron and Wilfred Brambell. Stop me and say hi.

Penniless economist and inactive activist. Kindly old maiden aunt to any nice person who wants one.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

#CrazyCatLady #MMT #Urbanism #ADHD

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Katy Swain1d ago
@kat I've one further little favour to ask. I've been thinking of what music to add to this little project, and I recall sometime last year you posted a video of you playing some old standard. I wondered if you had any recordings to hand of you playing something of this ilk, suited to the tastes of an old fuddy-duddy like myself.
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Feeling the absence of somebody to say "Well done. Let's go to bed and have a bit of a cuddle."

It doesn't _have_ to be a cat. A human would do in a pinch. Beggars can't be choosers.

Think I'll go to bed anyway. Night-night, fedifriends.

Katy Swain1d ago
Had a fantastic day today. There's a part of me that expects the scales to balance out with some bad days shortly, but I shall carry on regardless, assuming more fantastic days to come.
Katy Swain1d ago
Life is too short to try to be kind to fitted sheets. Just roll 'em up in a ball and get on with your life.
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@Dawn These days I am surrounded by brilliant people, and I'm working hard to recognise it as the blessing it is, rather than a threat. As well as cultivating some other virtues.

Baby steps.

@moriel @ciara

Katy Swain1d ago

@Dawn I have _so_ much trouble with friendly teasing (https://mastodon.social/@katyswain/116243835141511476).

And when the only virtues by which my worth was measured were the manly ones (strength, intelligence, competitiveness, courage/foolhardiness, etc.), all I had at my disposal was intelligence. So I had to be smarter than everybody else, and I was _so_ insufferable.

I've been lucky to have a few friends over the years astute enough to realise that showing off was my love language.

@moriel @ciara

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@lisa Congrats! I'm about the same, but I don't track dates, as I'm a little too prone to maudlin nostalgia.

I'm loving the weight redistribution, and thought I've not found the Estrogen Fountain of Youth, I have located the Estrogen Fountain of Late Middle-Age which, given the way I've treated myself over the years, is a jolly good result.

But psychologically, the difference is night and day. I did not expect a "sex hormone" to open the door to being a better human being.

Katy Swain2d ago
@Dawn 🫂💜 This resonates like Paul Robeson in an underground car park.
Katy Swain2d ago

I am so tired, and I have so much to do tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, that I feel I should complain about it.

But it's so much better than not having anything to do.

Katy Swain2d ago

Damnit. There's some problem with the machine my VPS is on, and Linode is migrating me to another machine.

I really need some sort of backup regime independent of the hosting service. And to get my stuff out of the US.

I hate sysadminning. Bless you people who can do that kind of work without (I presume) having a nervous breakdown on a daily basis.