Alena




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  1. 1. complete gender transition
    10 entries . 79 cheers
    30 people
  2. 2. get a job
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    10,462 people
  3. 3. Stay out of the hospital
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    6 people
  4. 4. overcome borderline personality disorder
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    64 people
  5. 5. graduate from college
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    6,099 people
  6. 6. start a non-profit
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    310 people
  7. 7. inspire and be inspired
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    274 people
  8. 8. live simply
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    3,258 people
  9. 9. Take more pictures
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    14,283 people
  10. 10. write my ideas down
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    13 people
  11. 11. own my own home
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    1,370 people
  12. 12. be a succulent wild woman
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    103 people
  13. 13. Stop caring what other people think of me
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    3,967 people
  14. 14. get FFS
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    3 people
  15. 15. adopt
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    567 people
  16. 16. find an apartment
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    198 people
  17. 17. fall in love with someone who loves me too
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    1,060 people
  18. 18. eat healthy
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    3,004 people
  19. 19. keep a food diary
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    105 people
  20. 20. participate in the GLBT community
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    2 people
  21. 21. make more queer friends
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    2 people
  22. 22. Read more
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    7,712 people
  23. 23. pay off all my debts
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    410 people
  24. 24. travel solo
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    34 people
  25. 25. Visit Germany
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    634 people
  26. 26. move to Canada
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    520 people
  27. 27. keep in contact with my friends
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    57 people
  28. 28. keep my car clean
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    369 people
  29. 29. Get a tattoo
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    20,222 people
  30. 30. Skydive
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    10,154 people
  31. 31. get a bonsai tree
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    24 people
  32. 32. make the most of my 30s
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    21 people
  33. 33. Become a better programmer
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    952 people
  34. 34. make money in second life
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    29 people
  35. 35. improve my credit rating
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    195 people
  36. 36. notice beauty
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    16 people
  37. 37. donate bone marrow
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    87 people
  38. 38. be more confident
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    10,243 people
  39. 39. write a book
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    25,991 people
  40. 40. find a job
    1,801 people
  41. 41. data recovery
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    4 people
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complete gender transition (read all 10 entries…)
Letter to Legislators 1 month ago

I wrote a my state senator (among others) the following:

I writing to ask that you sponsor a bill that would ban discrimination in healthcare against transgender Minnesotans. This position is supported by both the American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/471/114.doc) and The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) (http://www.wpath.org/documents/Med%20Nec%20on%202008%20Letterhead.pdf). I am transgender and have been through a great deal of hardship due to discriminatory practices in both private and public insurance plans. I have attempted suicide four times, and been hospitalized for suicidal ideation forty times. The hundreds of thousands of dollars those hospitalizations have cost could have paid for surgery to end my distress many times over. Money that is going toward mental healthcare for the transgender community could be much better spent. Please help by giving transgender Minnesotans hope by sponsoring a bill to end transgender discrimination in healthcare.

Sincerely,

Alena Neumann

He wrote me back today:
Thanks for your e-mail.

Any Legislator can introduce any bill on any topic. However, we tend to let those legislators who actually serve on the subject’s committees to carry the bills relating to that committee. I do not serve on the Senate’s Health, Housing and Family Security Committee which would have jurisdiction on this topic. Again, that does mean that I cannot introduce a bill, but it would be smarter if a member of that committee does so. The committee members would have a better sense of the likelihood of getting a bill through a committee.

I would be concerned that even if such a bill passed the Legislature, the Governor may veto it. Two years ago, the Legislature approved healthcare benefits for same sex couples and that provision was added to the State Government Budget bill, which I carried. The Governor vetoed the whole bill, basically because that provision was included.

State Senator Don Betzold

I guess my next move is to write every member of the Health, Housing and Family Security Committee, and the governor. I know a lot of people who are in my life have been touched by this too, watching me go through things, so please write too.



data recovery (read all 7 entries…)
This Sux 4 months ago

The metadata scan finally finished. I recognised some of the data it found, but it didn’t find what I need. This is such a distaster. I guess all I can do is rescan and the start the the search from a different instance of the partition it found (there were like 15, all starting from different sectors). If it takes just as long I could be at this for several months. God I wish I had the money for OnTrack.



data recovery (read all 7 entries…)
So close... 4 months ago

I so can’t wait to take this recovery effort to the next step.



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