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Someone at a neighboring house started blasting music this morning around 2:45am, awakening me and keeping me from falling back asleep for at least half an hour. But the thing is, I really liked the music. It was in Spanish, and dancy, and neat-sounding. I might buy it for myself if I knew what artist/CD it was. So I lay there in bed, slightly annoyed but also choosing to simply take pleasure in it.

This morning I heard that there had been a lunar eclipse, and wondered if perhaps my neighbors had been having a lunar-eclipse-party?! Perhaps they were celebrating while the earth's shadow crossed the moon's disk? So I looked up the time of the eclipse, but they were a couple of hours too early for that.

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I wonder how much of my gender identity has been influenced by the book-reading I did as a kid. Many of the books I read had male protagonists. Yet many of those books' authors were female. Therefore, perhaps the male characters whose personalities I identified with, weren't exactly masculine in a real-life sense, as they were written from an arguably feminine perspective. And perhaps that gave me somewhat of a not-quite-feminine, not-quite-masculine gender identity myself?