Recent content by Musette

From what I've seen, changing your accent is a slow tedious practice. Even if you break into your old voice on occasion, you're likely still improving in the long run and those breaks will become less frequent. My mother trained herself out of her thick US Southern Drawl through years of...

Florida, and it's a weird place. (There's a reason why Florida Man exists.) South Florida has a history of attracting snowbirds, so there's a mix of New England (especially New York) as well as Cuban influence depending on how south. The farther north you go, the more "South" the state seems...

Can't say that ever happened to me when I had periods, but if I remember correctly, testosterone levels tend to be highest around the period, so perhaps that affects your experience with attraction. I don't think that necessarily makes the attraction "false," but definitely conditional. (For me...

It was pretty damn hot until recently. I think the hurricane is bringing some cooler winds where I'm at. (The hurricane isn't hitting me yet, but I think it attracted some light misty rain that's far more like what I'd expect out of somewhere like Ireland than here.)

I really liked Pushing Daisies back when it was still alive. It had such a quirky/morbid sense of humor that was just so rare at the time. Shame the writer's strike killed it though.

I haven't been in a relationship in ~6 years, and I've been single by choice ever since. I like to joke that getting my doctorate will be my way of marrying my music, and I'm going to start the audition grind around February. Should everything go smoothly, I'll have my second Master's degree...

I guess one of the weird perks about being a twin is that we always get opposite versions to help each other complete the pokedex. I think my twin is leaning toward Sun actually. Still, if she ultimately chooses Moon, then I wouldn't mind getting Sun.

I'm a musician by trade, so there's no way I could give that up. As much as I'd hate to lose my taste, I've kinda already dedicated my life to music, I'd rather not have to totally restructure my life or give up my greatest passion just so I could enjoy a nice hot meal.

Thanks! I got ridiculously lucky with HRT because I'm a grad assistant at a university that gives me free health insurance, has a free counseling center capable of writing therapist letters, and offers HRT within the university's clinic. Granted, insurance pulled something sketchy when I went to...

I remember seeing someone post a photo of a textbook printed within the last few years that used "transgenders" as a vocabulary term, and let's just say that the rest of the content on the topic was probably exactly what you would expect. >> Thank you! I'll have to hurry up and keep making...

My answer is probably not going to help you much, but I'd be just as disinterested in a fellow trans person as I would a cis person. I'm sure my answer is proabaly even less useful because I wasn't even the first asexual person to respond! (I guess I'm the first aromantic asexual though, since...

Any energy drink I've ever tried tasted way too sweet for me. Besides, I'm always too paranoid to take more than a matter of sips because I'm way more sensitive to caffeine than I should be. I don't drink coffee and I'm very cautious about caffeinated teas, so energy drinks never really...

Well, when I joined the Escapist, I thought I was a straight girl. Turned out to be wrong in both the orientation and gender department, go figure. Still, even if some parts of the results are very predictable, these polls are always fun, even as someone who has a tendency to lurk more than post.

When I started playing percussion at 16. Yeah, I listened to music plenty growing up and was really into video game soundtracks, but when I started playing the marimba specifically, I became absolutely smitten. Six years later, I'm probably even more smitten than I was before. I'm working on a...

Years ago, My family took me to get a professional massage using a Groupon of all things, so I imagine that made it slightly more reasonable. Personally, I loved it. I carry more tension than I tend to be aware of, so feeling all of it melt away was really nice. You can ask the masseuse to focus...