First shot of T

This morning at 9:30 I got a shot in my butt of testosterone. I am total riding a high. I am excited! I had to take little Emma (she turned 2 in March) with me to the doctor's office. She held my hand. Asked me if it hurt. I said no, but it did sting a bit! Two weeks from now I go back for another - except I will give the shot to myself and the nurse will watch so I do it right - then I am on my own.

And work changes

My boss got fired. Board of trustees took action. Kind of amazing really. I am stunned.

Oh yea!

Got my prescription for T !!

Notes from the back room - an excerpt from my weekly newspaper column

I have always been a comic book reader, although now I buy them with different criteria than I did as a kid. Back then all the purchases were leisurely and spur of the moment, more likely to happen as a whim on a trip to the grocery store with my ma than as a directed effort to seek out the flimsy, stapled literary pictorial works. I didn't care about the condition of the comics I purchased. Bent, torn, wrinkled didn't matter, it was about the story. The stories got me wanting more narratives. There was something, too, in the actual moment-to-moment experience of reading comics that provided a unique delight. The visual accompanied by the structure and dialog. Yup, the sequential art and the play-by-play narrative. It fostered (and still does) my love of a well-crafted tale. A saga that even stretches out through many adventures with the same characters. When I compiled my list of the ten most influential books of my life there was one comic book on it. (The graphic novel X-men-God loves, man kills). Chris Claremont was the author back then, and I liked that comic so much I went down to the library and got his actual novels. While I liked his novel, First Flight, his comics are so much better. I think a lot of adults brush aside comics as juvenile eye-candy and fluff (and some are, of course so are some books..) But as we approach summer reading and start promoting literacy with kids and other reluctant readers, lets not forget the comic book. Now literary merit is one thing and reading just because it is fun is another, and while comics can meet both of those criteria – yes, it is true there are some comic books that have won actual literary awards – I do want to mention that reading something that is just plain fun has its place in building literacy. For a list of award winning graphic novels that the library has, just stop by the back room and ask me!

Passion Quilt Meme - You can't fly if you don't jump

nobody tagged me, but what the hell I pondered this a bit. I thought of my most favorite graffiti message from a friend of mine - "Nothing matters, nothing - only love." I thought about the words tattooed on another friend's arm, "love > fear". Then I thought about the time in my childhood when I jumped (literally) off a cliff. I believed with all my heart that I would fly. I failed miserably, broke bones in fact. But the jumping - the belief and the commitment and the act of actually jumping - it worked and I flew. This is what I would pass on to children. This is my Passion.