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This is exactly what I use Twitter for: I do it, I tweet about it. Then when I log, I post that I logged.

Saying "I'm attracted to people regardless of their sexuality" is very different from giving them the blow by blow of my romantic/sexual life. One is "I really like sushi"; the second is a glowing review of every sushi-ya I've had the pleasure to eat at. Maybe I'd like to talk about sushi now and then, so it's kind of useful to have people know that I enjoy it! And apparently the instant I'm in a heterosexual relationship, people assume I'm straight because most people in hetero relationships are straight. It's a "fair assumption" in a sense, but I dislike people making that assumption.

Because people assume I'm something I'm not when they try to treat me like a "normal" person and that bothers me. Because apparently since my relationship looks heterosexual I must be straight! But I'm NOT.

PROGRESS: Skincare/dental care: 8/42 Calories: 7/30 Contact point: 9/30 Pushups: 155/450 Studying: Progress: 14/60 Minichallenges: 4/5 for this week. Note to self: add the +1 STR from last week to my sig! Also, posted to the Warriors Guild about completing Kawdog Swabullanx.

So I used my 20 second Berserker Mode to post in the Warrior General thread and see if we can recruit anyone. Let's see what happens!

Hey guys, Assassin dropping by to say hi. So, hi! Here's a Marjay, which is a relative to an ocelot and thus also a really adorable kitty: So now that I have your attention, I'd like to let you know that my Fellowship of the Nerds team Kawdog Swabullanx is almost complete and we only need a Warrior now! For those that don't know, Fellowship of the Nerds teams feature one member of every guild: so alongside myself as Assassin, we have joedog the Adventurer, swaffe the Druid, Kishi the Monk, InDestructiBull the Ranger, and Phylanx the Scout. We range in experience from first-time challengers to Guild Leaders so as long as you're interested in learning from some fantastic non-Warrior Rebels, feel free to stop in and join up!

This is very very true, but I'm a mathematician, which means I like being very very precise with my definitions. (Which also means I can be very pedantic. Sorry.) I like the implications of "pansexual" and the fact that it makes people consider the various options beyond the cisgendered norm - and, in fact, beyond the gender binary itself. So I prefer it over "bisexual" because I like having those discussions. If I had to put it mathematically, I'd say "my romantic/sexual attraction to people is statistically independent of genitalia as well as statistically independent of gender identity", but that's long and most people don't really understand what statistical independence really is, so "pansexual" is good shorthand.

PROGRESS: Skincare/dental care: 6.5/42 +2 Calories: 5/30 Contact point: 7/30 (I know I said "three points" on Twitter, but I've decided to count this more as "days working significantly on job search" instead of "number of applications".) Pushups: 125/450 Studying: Progress: 12/60 (Internet's been crappy on me, sigh.) Minichallenges: Gain +1 STR for last week; on target 2/5 for this week plus the bonus point for the squat. Getting back on track, woo!

Should I toss a post into the Warrior's general thread asking for one of them to join us so we have a full team, or is that not necessary?

Repeated Starting Stretching/Molding Mobility and got my ten minute squat in! Not perfect form; need to raise my chest and point my feet forward rather than splayed out, but it's SOMETHING. My shiiiiiiiins, though.

Your progress is great and I'm already really proud of you! Keep it up! Regarding mobility: consider Molding Mobility and Starting Stretching?

This looks crazy and awesome! Count me in.

Progress as of right now: Skincare/dental care: 4.5/42 Calories: 3/30 Contact point: 5/30 Pushups: 90/450 Studying: Progress: 9/60 This Twitter system is really working for me. OVERALL: Some of these are going great (DEM PUSHUPS! JOB STUFF!) and the rest is...not quite awesome, especially the calorie counting. (I blame my partner for this weekend!) But it can - and WILL - get better, and I can't give up! Coming up this week: visiting a job search center, some follow up calls to make, and whatever mini-challenges come my way between the Assassin's Guild and the Fellowship of the Nerds.

Awesome stuff, and a great reminder to myself to finally finish Chrono Trigger. Looking forward to seeing your progress and working with you on Fellowship of the Nerds stuff!

Bodyweight exercise for EVERYONE, yells the Assassin!

Wow, you've got some amazing goals! Consider this Assassin envious. :3 I need to do the cleaning one too at some point, augh. We are in this together!

Thanks everyone for all your support! Progress as of right now: Skincare/dental care: 3.5/42 (missed last night, otherwise good) Calories: 3/30 (went a little overboard with Chinese food tonight, sigh) Contact point: 4/30 (two yesterday but none today) Pushups: 70/450 (WOOT. Also, sixty second of planks.) Studying: Progress: 8/60 (I did study yesterday but didn't tweet it. Blergh.) Weekend's coming up; I'm heading over to my partner's. These are expected cheat days for me for just about everything but the skincare/dental care stuff, so don't expect me to tweet, but I'll try anyway.

Plaaaaaaaaaaaanks. Oh my goodness my upper body is feeling it (especially since I'm improving my form on my incline pushups). Please tell me next week's challenge will be not upper body heavy? Pleaaaaaaaaaaase?

Hey hey hey! I said hi in everyone's individual challenge thread but it's good we've got this too. I'm Kawa. I aspire to do handstands and real push ups and real pullups and all that Assassin goodness. Talk to me about math sometime, or anime, or roguelikes. I'm very excited to be doing this with you all!

Ding ding ding! For me it's a recognition that there's more to gender than the binary, and acceptance of and love for gender fluidity is a part of my identity. I'm sorry for any confusion!

Guess I might as well say it here. I'm pansexual, in a relationship that only looks heteronormal, so the people who are most conservative in my life will probably not believe me/not think it matters if I come out any further. (I told my parents I was bisexual in high school and I'm fairly sure they somehow managed to pass the saving throw vs. believing it. I...don't know how that happened.) I'm really not sure how much I can really bring it up to them or my future in-laws. But my friends all know I'm pansexual and I'm out on the Internet (not attached to my real name), so there's that. The one thing I have learned through the years is that gender is weird and I am very very lucky to have my cisgendered privilege.

Every time I do something relevant to my challenge goals, I tweet about it: @KawaChallenge. Since I'm on TweetDeck handling multiple Twitter accounts all the time anyway, it's trivial for me to toss in a "oh, I did fifteen push ups"/"oh, I ate an ear of corn"/"oh, I called School Y about teaching" tweet now and then to the dedicated account. Then every night, I check the account, summarize my progress, and post in my challenge thread. The I tweet a quick "oh, I logged up to this point" Tweet, so I know where to start from for the next day. It's working really well so far!

Yesterday, as evidenced on Twitter: Skincare/dental care: YES Progress: 2/42 Calories: YES Progress: 2/30 Contact point: YES Progress: 2/30 Pushups: YES Progress: 30/450 Studying: YES (actually ahead by an hour) Progress: 5/60 That "progress bar" button on the editor is such a tease! I don't know how to make it work!