Six Degrees of Amy

Since I went full-time …

In my professional world I’ve been stealth,

While in my social world,

I’ve either been associating with friends that already knew my function,

Or I’ve been undercover in limited one-time-only or otherwise singular and non-regular encounters.

It was my attempt to temporarily replicate not having to out myself to the world as I would have been able to avoid facing if I had relocated as I originally planned.

And it totally served its purpose …

Being a great acclimation for me to the full-time environment …

Because there was little stress to me in either my professional or social lives.

In fact,

But for times of having to avoid some people in the early weeks of full-time …

I really didn’t have to deal with my transsexualism at all,

Since both settings were comprised of essentially superficial interactions where I really didn’t have to worry about being read or people dwelling to well to get know me.

Life was easy.

But now …

That little reprieve I’ve had,

Is coming to an end.

I’m about to be outed in my professional life,

While at the same time …

I’m gotten myself deep stealth with the new group of people I’m associating with on an increasingly regular basis.

Meaning …

I’ve got some serious temporary stress in both parts of my life right now …

As I just get used to these environments.

The looks and whispers coming in some courthouses,

And figuring out how to answer off the cuff questions from people I see more and more frequently as to why a “great girl like you is still single?” or “what led to your divorce?”

(In case you’re wondering … the answers I given to both questions have required some extensive linguistic mangling to avoid being tagged as blatant lies ! :))

Not to mention the added stress that’s being created from knowing that …

At some point in my future,

These two worlds will collide.

Social meet professional.

Professional meet social.

Someone will know someone who will know someone and we’ll be somewhere and well …

You can figure out what happens from there.

It’s the whole Kevin Bacon-thing of association and resulting identificatioooon.

I can just hear it now …

“I was going to set you up with my brother and you used to be a guy !!! I’m going to ….”

Now I know I can totally handle the situations …

I always do …

It’s what makes me Amy-wan ! 🙂

That’s not the point.

The point is …

You know,

I really don’t have a point.

But I don’t need to …

It’s my website after all,

I can do what I want.

And I want to give you a prelude to what’s coming …

Which is what I just did ! 🙂

Editor’s Note: Okay … for anyone playing the Degree game in their real lives … if you know me, you are only 1 degree away from meeting Dan Quayle (former U.S. Vice President), David Cassidy (Keith Partridge from The Partridge Family) and Larry King (a talk show host who slurps his soup annoyingly loud). Not to mention … if you know me, then at some point, being able to say you know me will be much kewler that saying you know someone who met Dan Quayle, David Cassidy and Larry King ! 🙂