Got my Nitnem in today

I ordered Harhans Singh Doabia's Sacred Nitnem a few days ago on Amazon, and it arrived today. I am pretty excited to get going on this whole Sikh thing (though I've been trying for the past two weeks to go to Gurdwara, but it keeps snowing which prevents me from leaving the house). I ordered this version, because it has the prayers in the original script, then it has the Roman pronunciations underneath, and then English translation on the facing page.

I listened to the Japji Sahib being recited on YouTube while following along in the book today. It's so long, I can't believe people recite it every morning.

I also bought Volume I of Max Arthur MacAuliffe's The Sikh Religion which was printed originally in 1909. MacAuliffe lived in British India and was the first person to really translate all the Sikh works into English, he converted to Sikhism, and was considered an expert on the religion. The volume so far seems really interesting, because he's discussing the British Punjab as it was back in the late 1800s. I think the bulk of the book is just translations and perhaps some commentary on some Sikh texts. I really dislike the font used to print the book in though, I think it is Calibri, which I really despise for some reason.

I am still trying to decide if I want to present as male or not at Gurdwara. I don't pass, so I am thinking of going female. There's a gurdwara run by 3HO (ugh... don't get me started on Yogi Bhajan, from what I've learned about him, I am not a big fan) that I might go to as female, and then if I decide to transition, I'll start going to the non-3HO gurdwaras once I start appearing more male.