Anticlimax

Friday's post, you may recall, simply said:

Tonight will be a new trans-related experience for me.  I'll do a postmortem next Monday.

I specified "t-related" because I was not out dressed.  In fact, I underdressed down because I wanted to keep Meg as low-key as possible.

I met a t-friend (S) and his wife for dinner.  Charity joined me.  Two men, two women, meeting for dinner.

I had never met my friend's male self before.  He had never met me, although our femme-selves had met several times; she had even come up to the apartment to change in the past.

Please bear with me; I'm having pronoun trouble.

I think our femme-selves get along well.  We always have good talks at soirees and other times we've met.  This was, for me, kind of an experiment.  I have come out to people who know my male self, and introduced most to Meg.  I haven't done it in reverse, and I can't figure out why that's odd.  I mean, people who know my male self don't know anything about Meg.  People who know about Meg know there's another identity in there somewhere.

By the way, I have met a few t-friends both as Meg and, um, not-Meg.  It's something I should feel comfortable about doing more often.  I prefer to meet people as Meg because, well, I like Meg.  Of the "two of us" she's definitely the more attractive one.

I think this is the first of more similar activies.  I don't like to have to set aside three extra hours to get ready/unready to meet with friends I have something seriously in common with, but I can easily meet a work friend after office hours.

I think I just have to admit there's two of me, and we're both equally good and nice people and it should be my preference who meets with friends.  There are caveats.  I have met t-friends who do not want to meet my male side.  Absolutely do not.

I guess there are four combinations of Meg and t-friend meeting:
both present as female: this happens quite a bit and is good.
both present as male: rare, but good.  Friends is friends, no?
I present as male, friend as female: has happened a few times.  I don't let my lack of preperation time keep me from meeting (or making) a friend
I present as female, friend as male: hasn't yet happened.

We'll see what the future brings.

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It's About Time

(to anon, yesterday's commenter: the shorts were short but not short short.  My wife thinks shorts for guys should be knee length or so.  I disagree, and mine were about a full index finger above the centre of my kneecap.)

Update: paragraph 2 was rewritten.  I need a memory upgrade.

I'm afraid to check my mail to see when Diane Michelle and I first tried to get together.  Each time I visit Long Island, always with family, I try to get together with Diane.  It's going to be in drab for both of us because, well, my family's with me and Diane prefers to sport a goatee.  It goes away when Diane appears, of course ~ and the result is amazing.

To be fair to both Diane and Karen (of FemmeFever), Karen did her Diane did her own makeup and Karen helped choose her hair from an extensive collection ~ and I think it is perfect for her.

I am poorer for not meeting Diane sooner.  We sat in a fast food joint and talked and talked until I so overstayed my welcome that I had to return to the hotel. 

Even though we were in our guys disguise, we spoke freely of dressing and going out and our histories and experiences and so on.  Diane is fun and interesting and if she wasn't moving to San Jose we might have some fun hanging out, dressed however.

And now I have to firm up some travel plans.  I want to dress, drive up to Philly to hopefully meet Dani, then up to NY to greet Diane properly and hopefully meet Gwen.  Then maybe I can get up to CT and meet my hero(ine), Stana.  In between, I can change and meet with a couple of LI guy friends.  And I'll talk more about them in the next day or two.

Thank you for coming out (so to speak) Diane!  And I'm sorry it was for such a brief time.

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"Followers"?

I don't really like that word. I'm not here to lead, although some readers have said I'm a role model. I really really like that. I've never been a role model before. I'm more like a bad example.

I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to change the word "followers" on the widget. The closest I got was to change the title which you'll only notice if you look hard ~ it says "Friends and Friends I Haven't Met Yet". I considered and rejected "Current and Future Friends" as both more concise and more presumptuous.

There are a few classes of ladies who are in my [potential] friends list. I say ladies, because I haven't any evidence that there are any men reading this blog. If I'm wrong, speak up!

There are women I've met (Amanda, Kim) who are on the friend's list and others (Shirien) who aren't.

There are gurls I've chatted with for a while (Deb). There are gurls whose blogs I read (Stana).

There are gurls who joined from crossdressers.com (Penny, Lisah), and gurls who'd rather comment than follow (Pat).

There are others I don't know at all (Emma, Mari, RachelAnne).

What I'm saying is, I don't know most of you. I introduced myself ~ I'd really like it if you all would do the same. You can drop me an e-mail at youCanCallMeMeg@gmail.com if you like. I'll write back, unless you ask me not to. You can just add a comment to this post and I won't know your e-mail address. If you want to write a private note and not give me you address, send a comment with DO NOT POST at the top and I won't. I read every one before I post them.

Don't be shy ~ I've bared all, and I'd just like to know who I'm baring all to.

I have a couple of more trip posts and then I think I'm done and I'll close up and go home. I posted this now so you'd have time to respond, if you so wish.

My wish is that you so wish.