Throughout my life I have let my heart guide me more often than I have let my mind. For the past couple of days I have been struggling with a difficult choice (well, it's not difficult in the sense of anything really important, understand, just in a personal sense).
I wrote once a little bit about Kate Bornstein, here. My best friend, Michelle, in Chicago called me a few days ago to say that Kate was performing at NIU this Friday night (tonight). I desperately wanted to go. I've not seen Kate in several years and I just adore her (actually, when she autographed her first book (Gender Outlaw) for me, it was only a couple of years after I had come out -- in 1994, when she first published it -- and her note to me was "Bless you for your blossoming strength, my sister Outlaw"; I know it's childish, but I seriously treasure that book!).
But, I let my mind rule the day and said 'no'. After all, I have my Summary Judgment brief due on Monday, I am (as I've said too many times before) still behind in my overall reading, and I've got finals approaching in a mere 6 weeks. I just knew I should not let this 3 day weekend slip by without some serious study time. A 6 hour, one-way, drive to DeKalb, IL just didn't figure into that plan.
Just now, Michelle calls me to say that they've also arranged for the little TG group up there to have dinner with Kate this evening and we're invited. Study? I don't need no freakin' study!