Cailín Walsh 🍀

Good night and sweet dreams darlings. See you in the morning 😘

I keep thinking that I'm kinda mid at tech stuff but then I remember that I built a replacement for the MOS 6510 for fun by gluing a Xilinx CPLD and a WDC 65C02 together, learning how to use KiCad and the CPLD development platform in the process and I dunno maybe I'm a bit better than "mid" 🤷‍♀️

Admittedly I amuse easily but having a casual conversation with my gynecologist while she's rooting around inside my vagina continues to amuse me greatly.

Ahahahaha I cleaned up my photo library on my phone recently and somehow managed to break the connection between me and my pre transition self because I just got a "Portraits Over The Years" suggestion in the Photos app and it's all photos of me pre transition and it does not recognize them as me.

I mean without a doubt I'm unrecognizable but the facial recognition stuff was able to connect the dots via all the intermediary transition photos that used to be there. Anyway, the external validation is still nice to have I suppose.

I'm glad I mentioned my suspicions about being intersex to my gynecologist because she was like "you know I'm pretty sure I can order a karyotype test if you wanted" which is apparently something neither my GP nor my specialist can do and I just assumed that this would continue to be a mystery 🤷‍♀️

I'm not going to be upset if the test comes back and I'm not intersex but I will feel vindicated if it does! Also presumably she can order a pelvic ultrasound to check me out for, y'know, bonus reproductive organs if further investigation is warranted.

Is it bad that my first reaction to this is “PostScript is Turing Complete so technically this is possible 🤔”?

The belly must be touched

Literally the only downside to having been fully accepted by my family is that my cousin’s wife’s name is Colleen and it can be slightly confusing on occasion but I suppose that’s kinda my fault, really.

Having briefly suffered menopause symptoms (including hot flashes!) before my bottom surgery may have been annoying at the time but it's honestly a great thing to drop when talking to cis women around my age because it really drives home the fact that we are more alike than different.