Can I ask you ten questions?

[Cindy]

There has been fun in people doing this so why not expand it?

You can ask max of ten questions
No return to them, unless an answer has changed.

OK

She says with fear

Cindy

[Danielle Emmalee]

Why did you remove the second part of your name?

[Cindy]

He died.

[Ltl89]

Hey Cindy, 

What field are you a professor in?

What are the pros and cons of the job?

Do you have any regrets about going into academia?

Has transitioning changed how you view your job? 

How has your job or work environment changed since you transitioned?  Please share good and bad.

Sorry for the big questions, but I hope to one day become a professor myself; therefore, I have lots of questions in that area. 

[Aina]

Whats your favorite flavor of ice-cream?

What is one thing you would do over if you had a chance?

Puppies or Kittens?

What is your favorite Hobby?

What one item would you buy if money was no option?

(and for the tough one!)

What is the average air speed velocity of a unladen swallow?

[Antonia J]

You have 24 hours to live and the money and resources you currently possess.  What do you do with your remaining time?

[Cindy]

Hey Cindy, 

What field are you a professor in?
Immunology

What are the pros and cons of the job?
Pros:I decide what I want to do to a great extent. I help people who are seriously ill
Cons: People die

Do you have any regrets about going into academia?
No


Has transitioning changed how you view your job? 

Not really, I enjoy it more maybe, I'm more relaxed

How has your job or work environment changed since you transitioned?  Please share good and bad.

No my colleagues have been very accepting. My students have been the same. I have had not a single bad experience

Sorry for the big questions, but I hope to one day become a professor myself; therefore, I have lots of questions in that area. 

[Cindy]

Whats your favorite flavor of ice-cream?
Chocolate
What is one thing you would do over if you had a chance?
Transition earlier

Puppies or Kittens?
Both

What is your favorite Hobby?
Photography

What one item would you buy if money was no option?

(and for the tough one!)

What is the average air speed velocity of a unladen swallow?

24 mph!!

[Cindy]

You have 24 hours to live and the money and resources you currently possess.  What do you do with your remaining time?

Hug and Kiss my wife and tell her how much I love her.

Donate my money to Susan's to set up a fund for members to access GRS

[aleon515]

Do you have good friends IRL that are MTF and FTM? Do you go to a real life support group? How active are you in the "real world" trans community? Thanks.

--Jay

[Cindy]

Do you have good friends IRL that are MTF and FTM? Do you go to a real life support group? How active are you in the "real world" trans community? Thanks.

--Jay

One of my closest friends is VM we have talked everyday for 
5 years by Skype
I am close friends, as in physically socialise with several MtF and  FtM in Adelaide and Australia
I am the community liaison officer for ANZPATH in South Australia
I am Web Mistress of ANZGSG (and site owner) the community arm of ANZPATH.
  (ANZPATH is local arm of WPATH)
I am 50% of the organising committee for the next national conference
so yes very active in the community.
I pick friends because I like them not on gender or sex.

[Natkat]

Where would you want to live if you where to move, or what is your favorite place you been to?

How did you meet your wife?

do you consider yourself a spiritual person?

[Cindy]

Where would you want to live if you where to move, or what is your favorite place you been to?

Adelaide is pretty magic. I have been around all of the UK, Europe, quite a bit of the USA, and traveled for 18 months in a 4WD around Australia and Adelaide is still one place I do like

How did you meet your wife?

In an amateur theater group. I was asked to play guitar for a play they were doing, and she was there. She had just got engaged a fortnight earlier and two weeks after we met we were living together!

do you consider yourself a spiritual person?

No, I have no belief in Gods or religions. I consider myself a very caring person and I live by my code of never do anything to anyone that I wouldn't want to be done to myself. I fail at that quite often 

[Natkat]

No, I have no belief in Gods or religions.

I didn't mean that.

I meant spiritual as in "not nessesarry beliving in god but beliving in something.
hmm but I dont know how to explain it?
like some people belive in re-generation, or world-illusions.

[Cindy]

No, I exist now when I die I'm gone. I have no belief in an afterlife, rebirth etc. Yes I have seen and dealt with dreams and experiences that I can not understand or explain but I give them no mystical meaning.

[Antonia J]

Why are you so passionate about supporting the trans* community when life would be so much easier for you if you just went stealth?

(And I am glad you are - you have personally walked me off of one ledge whether you knew it at the time or not)

Toni

[Cindy]

Why are you so passionate about supporting the trans* community when life would be so much easier for you if you just went stealth?

(And I am glad you are - you have personally walked me off of one ledge whether you knew it at the time or not)

Toni

Complex but I will try.

One I can never go stealth I'm too well known in my professional life. I'm not ashamed of being me, I'm proud.

I know the true Hell of being trans* to cut a long story short, there was a time I sold myself to live. I will not let another trans*person have to do that.

I will do anything I can to stop a person go through my horror.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I have but two questions.

How is your wife doing?  And please give her a hug for me.

How do you hide your angel wings?  You are truly an angel on earth and I love you Sis.

[suzifrommd]

What is your actual job? I know you have a medical background but I'm curious to know more.

[Cindy]

I have but two questions.

How is your wife doing?  And please give her a hug for me.

I'll be getting her in a few hours for her Saturday outing! She has lost the ability to move anything but her right hand, and her weight has kept rising which makes moving her in a wheelchair very difficult for me. I have of course lost upper body strength as well.

Her resilience and ability to keep happy and positive and desire to live is an inspiration to all of us who look after her!
Thank you Sis

How do you hide your angel wings?  You are truly an angel on earth and I love you Sis.

I'm no angel!  I'm just a very naughty girl!