A little bit of closure

Hi peeps, look, look I'm still alive! Special thanks to the people who e-mailed me to check that I was, sorry I didn't reply individually but I thought I would make a post... then I kinda put it off and put it off some more, then I had my exams, then once my exams ended I nobly decided to put off posting a little bit more.

Anyhow I'm posting now and that's what counts right? So are you ready for a huge built up surge of hunter information?

I really hope not because the word hunter is only going to be used 3 times in this post (go on, count if you want!). Instead this post is going to be about boring old me and explaining why I haven't been posting:- so without further stalling for time here comes Lienna's top 5 list of excuses:

1) End of the college year, and good news from it! Exams passed, portfolios finished, qualifications gotten, university placed confirmed.

2) In order to achieve 1) WoW had to be sacrificed... I've very good at getting distracted, as my insistence on playing on roleplaying realms might demonstrate I was able to log into WoW and spend hours just chatting without actually playing. My WoW account has actually ran out now and I'm really not sure if it would be a good idea to start again, I could easily see myself deciding to play for the three months between end of college and start of university, and somehow not managing to give up when uni starts. Suddenly I'm a student who's studying at a high level, spending all her free time playing WoW and spending money she doesn't need to spend on a monthly subscription just so she can keep in touch with her hunter and virtual menagerie.

3) One of the more limited and recent reason:- I'm as pale as a ghost and I actually want to get a tan this summer, to this end I am currently sunburnt all down my back, red is the new brown! On a similar note I'd like to lose weight, I'm not seriously overweight but I'm enough that I want to lose it. Unfortunatley I'm slim enough for all my friends to tell me that I'm slim (I also have a modicum of dress sense, I'm quite good at hiding the wobblier parts of my anatomy). I know they are my friends and trying to be nice, but sometimes the thing you need to tell a fat girl is that she is fat, otherwise she won't stop overeating (Note: I am not responsible for any physical and/or mental damage caused to people who follow this advice and call one of their friends fat to their face)

4) More of a reason why I am posting this morning, and indeed it is morning, 3am to be precise, typing up this post while listening to random Kate Nash songs over youtube. I have to go up to London today for a half hour doctor appointment, getting to London takes 2 hours or so for me, add the time to get to and from the station, delays on the trains, price related restrictions on what trains I can take etc. This 30 minute appointment ends up taking a good 11 hours.

5) Again not an excuse about lack of blogging but I've started complaining about what I'm doing today so I guess I might as well finish and thus invite all of you, my loyal readers (if any of you still exist, and if you are still loyal then perhaps the word fanatical would be better applied? Or perhaps devoted, that's a nicer way of putting it) into a rather personal part of my life, something I'm always a little torn about whether to be proud of or perhaps to hide. Long story short as a few people guessed, particularly after my interview with Mr. Howell, I'm a Trans girl. My appointment today is another of the quarterly visits to my "local" gender clinic where I'm being supplied hormones and all that jazz.

So why am I sharing this information? Well firstly this is quite possibly my last post on my blog, so I figure if there are any close-minded people out there who want to make my life hell over a fact of my birth then I won't have to deal with them. Truthfully I'm kind of proud of myself, in my youth, while I was forced to live as a boy, I was a failure! I mean it, I was bad at sports, I was bad at socializing and I dropped out during my A-levels twice because my parents had forced me to go to an all-boys school (the irony practically oozes out of my life huh?). Yet now my life has turned around so much, it's only been 1 year since I went "full time" as a woman and in that time I've become much more sociable, my studies are going incredibly well and... I'm still bad at sports. I guess you can't have everything.

So anyway I guess the morale of the story is that people of all walks of life end up playing WoW for as many different reasons. Thanks you blizzard for giving me a place to hide from the world when I was still in denial, and a place where I could reach out and touch people's lives from behind a computer screen while I was too scared to show my face. Finally thank you everyone for making a community, because without every one of you, form the l33t trash talkers to the roleplaying knights, form the bloggers to the huntards without all of you WoW wouldn't be the place it is, a very special place in my memories.


Its 3:52am, good morning everyone, I hope you have a wonderful day, week, year and life!

Amy