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Slice of Life 1

  |   Amelia Meyer

Ok, I am awake y not happy about it.

I was up at Kettering yesterday, working as a judge for the Kettering VEX Robotics Competition event. Similar to the FIRST Tech Challenge I guess, but apparently much wider adopted (there are 20,000 teams for VRC!) and much better funded (they are an offshoot of the venerable IFI, Inc. and they have custom injection-molded field elements, new every year! That takes serious upfront capital and high volumes to make sense). It was a hell of a lot of fun, and the only misgendering I got was from the VEX official. The students were all super cool about it even though Friday was a laser day and so I could not shave.

Then we went to Sagano for dinner. Good times. I got calamari. Perfectly cooked. Also lunch today probably. I made myself a hat from a Ramune plunger. Also selfies are hard when the phone decides to do HDR.

I wore a brand new shirt from i3Detroit. It is a ladies fit! My first. And it is just so comfortable. Why are all my shirts not ladies cut? I may need to learn how to alter shirts.

Turbulent sleep though. Kept waking up needing to pee. I really need to figure out a way to not be on spironolactone anymore. But orchiectomy is expensive.

A woman takes a selfie in her bedroom mirror. She is wearing a purple t-shirt that reads 'i3Detroit Imagine, Innovate & Inspire' and blue jeans. Her dark hair is pulled back into a low ponytail.Heading off to judge VRC!
A woman takes a selfie at a restaurant. She is wearing a purple t-shirt that reads 'i3Detroit Imagine, Innovate & Inspire' and a brass pin that reads 'Member of the Esteemed and Well-Funded Trans Lobby'. Her dark hair is pulled back into a low ponytail. She is also holding very still with a Ramune bottle opener on her head as a HATHAT.