We get a lot of crazy weather there, so you always dress for the worst." What did your folks do there?" Dad did some sort of communications stuff, and...Mom cooked. Usually the first thing the research teams wanted when they got off the ice sheet was a hot meal. I helped Mom in the kitchen from when I was about 5." She chuckled. "It taught me one thing, I never want to make my living as a cook. The hours are long, and can be fairly brutal. You cook until you're dead on your feet, then get up and. Well, there was no good way to put this; Jerry was a geek. Like me, he had been terrorized by Eddie Matthews. After graduation, my friend had gone to work for Genesee Industries, a relatively new, up-and-coming defense contractor. Jerry and I still got together for lunch whenever we could. A recent get-together had changed my life forever.Jerry confessed on the hush-hush he was part of a development team that had perfected a new electronics suite for military aircraft; an honest-to-goodness. HR would walk you through theprocess, I'm sure, whether you stayed in guy mode most of the time orwhether you went for all the surgeries and did the total transformationthing. But you're right. It would change everything in your life, forsure. You'd need a whole new wardrobe for starters. And good bras ain'tcheap. But they say coming out is the best thing for you, once you getover the initial shock of it, and everybody in your life gets on withit." Coming out?" Yeah," she replied, "coming. Simmonds says my journal is too terse. It's fine for me. Unlike Cecily in "Importance of being Earnest," it's not "simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication." My journal is my journal. My dictionary says that's "a record of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly for private use." So there, Mr. Simmonds!Dad stopped Mum from destroying the garden. They talked for a while and then Dad came inside. "Do you think you.