By Colette Arrand

Colette Arrand lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is a student at the University of Georgia. You can find more sad essays about Pokemon and wrestling at her website and criticism on her other website .

  1. I’ve been trying to think of the right metaphor to describe this experience -- the way I can and can’t see real, tangible changes in my body, my mood, my place in the world; the way I have faith in the process and am exasperated by it, because from where I’m standing it will never end. The word transition implies that I started out as one thing and am becoming another, and that at the…

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