Okay one of these days I'm going to move this blog to a separate account so I can actually reply from here because it's driving me nuts having it as a secondary blog. ANYWAY. Replies from @r0sebud934 and @justaprocessofreadjustments: Now that you mention it, seems totally obvious that I need to be up on my front foot, especially if I want the trebles to actually go under rather than to the side. I don't know how I forgot that, but then, it's been a really long time since we used to do this as a drill in class. (Like, seven years.) So I will try doing that and see what happens and with any luck it'll help. As for being out at dance... Ehhh, I'm not really as out at class as I am here. I introduced myself as Finn to everyone, which isn't a name I use everywhere; I'd imagined that after my email exchange with the teachers they'd think I was a guy and when they met me they'd express surprise and it would provide me with the perfect opportunity to come out. But that didn't happen because neither of them said anything. And then a couple of weeks ago I had the perfect chance to come out because someone asked me if Finn was short for anything (e.g. Fionnuala) and I said, no, it's a nickname, my name's technically Miriam, and they asked why I called myself Finn. Which would've been the perfect moment! Instead I used my cover story about it originating as the username "delorfinde" that I used online for years, which is the explanation I used to give before I came out. Sooooo... I may be very explicitly out here, but this hasn't transferred to class. Once I'm dancing with the university society it will, I think, as I'm very out at uni and also it's a very trans-friendly place (possibly unlike my hometown). But right now I've been avoiding the subject. :/