Oh, hello there.

This is the story of one woman living in a Big Ten College Town (BTCT), is a second year in graduate school in a physical science. She is, also, one of the few queer women in the department. She tries to keep track of all of the gays in the department, but she may be somewhat unsuccessful.

I also like to talk about myself in third person. I'm sorry. I'll try not to do that anymore.

I've started and stopped many blogs in the past few years. I year ago, I really wanted to start writing a science blog, but then I realized that I don't want to think about science more than I absolutely have to. I'm now remembering my other passion: gender and sexuality and sex. I could write about those things for hours.

I recently came out as a femme lesbian. The lesbian part is old, the femme part is new -- only a few months old, but I've been struggling with my gender identity for a long time and it fits. This is not the post for me to go on and on about it, but I will, I'm sure of it.

It's been a long, long time since I've exercised my gender studies muscles, but they used to be huge. I was that girl in your classes, the one who always talked and stayed after and was critical of everything you said. I can't help it, it's how I'm wired, I have to be critical of everything.

I'm also using this blog as a writing project. A lot of my writing comes out dry -- I did news & opinion writing for my high school newspaper and I can't seem to shake that style of writing. A semi-anonymous blog about gender and sexuality should help me expand.