clevermanka | Rain, finally, and a new dress day, again

First off, a million thanks to

everflame who saved my butt this morning. Due to foolish oversight on my part, I am not in current possession of an umbrella. Or the CRX. With my parking tag. I got to the end of the block this morning and it started to sprinkle. I ran back to the house (an entertaining feat with a travel mug of coffeee) and called them to beg for a ride to campus. Thanks, girlies. So now I'm cozy and dry in my poison-laced office.

fireguarder sent me this story from the LJ World about the environmental crap going on in Wescoe. I love this quote: “If individual faculty feel that they don’t want to be in the building, we can make accommodations for them,” she said. “If somebody really has serious concerns, we wouldn’t, obviously, force them to go into that building.”

Well yeah, great. What about the staff who don't have a choice about where we have our offices? Way to be oblivious, Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett. I would like to point out that our department chair told the reporter that she was more worried about the staff, since we spend more time in the building than anyone. Of course the reporter neglected to include that in her write-up.

Fascinating. A study on why different people gain different amounts of calories from identical foods. This might help explain why some people do very well as vegetarians, while the same high grain, low protein diet makes some of us (me) fat.

A look at

theoneinblue's wedding photos reminded me that when I am in a situation where I might have my photo taken, I must wear eyeliner and lipstick if I want to like the photo of me. I appreciate the made-up-to-be-pale look in real life (when the occasion calls for it), but in photos it looks too washed out, at least on me. She, of course, looked absolutely lovely. As always.

It's another New Dress Day. I finished up this pattern last night and it fit really well on the first go. The waistline could be dropped maybe a half an inch, but otherwise. it's perfect. The fit, that is. The pattern instructions were some of the most laughably inaccurate I've ever come across. Sewing gals: If you make this one (which I do recommend as a good fit for girls with the ten-inch or more hip-waist ratio), let me warn you the directions for the collar are flat-out WRONG. They just don't work. At least I couldn't figure out how to possibly make it work. I managed a fudge that (IMO) looks better than the original design, though, so email me for how I did it unless you choose to experience the adventure for yourself.

Tommorow I'm off to spend the day with one of my best-loved and most-missed friends

alt_rorschach and her MIL. Shopping! Company! Girliness of all sorts, shapes and sizes! Squee! I can't wait. You all have a great weekend.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention the cutest thing EVER. I woke up slightly before my alarm this morning. I was on my stomach and my right cheek was on the pillow. I opened my eyes and Fetish Kitten had her head on the pillow right next to me, with her nose barely touching mine. She was still sort of asleep, but woke up when I opened my eyes. We stayed there for a few moments blinking at each other with our noses touching before the alarm started to beep and I had to move.

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I am curious if you are a member of a dance studio or troupe out that a way. I have some friends who do tribal bellydance (http://www.tribalbellydance.com/) out here in Atlanta, so now when I find someone else who also dances, I want to know more about their style and suchlike. Sorry if I'm being untowardly curious.

I'm not part of a troupe anymore. I dropped out of the one I was in due to personal issues with the troupe leader.

I'll dance about any style if I like it: tribal (although I've never done American Tribal Style with any success), cabaret, fusion of all sorts, etc. I'm certainly not a purist. Heck, I did a solo to a Southern Culture on the Skids song.

If it was "Walk Like a Camel", I may just die from the cool.

Prepare to die from cool. 'Twas, indeed Walk Like A Camel.

Yea, verily... I am slain. But only a little.

That song invariably inspires hipshaking.

At least for me.

D.

Oh, cool. I just now noticed there was a link there. Yes, indeed! Awalim is cool. Well, that is, Zi'ah is cool. She's the only one I've met. She is such a kick-ass doll. She used to guest dance at KC Ren fest. I really miss her. Tell her Lydia from KC/Lawrence says hello. Wonder if she remembers me, even.

I shall do so when I see her on Monday. I don't know her very well. I am friends with two other girls in the group.

Need a lift this afternoon?
---I arrived early today so as to be able to leave early. GO me.

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Many thanks for the link to the gut flora stuff.
more over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal_bacteria
Good list of relevant papers at the bottom.

Yes. Emailed you about that.

I'm trying to avoid chat sessions.

Fetish mew mew!

It was absolutely precious. One of Those Moments That Deserve A Card Or Something.

Of course she could have been saying, "Oi! Woman! Food! Now!" :)

No, I'm well-aquainted with that particular message and it does not at all resemble the sleepy head-on-pillow nose-touching sleepiness of this morning.

The Food Now! hint usually involves meowing loudly and walking back and forth on my head.

See. Now *that* is true kitty love.

(I miss kitties)

Ok, poisoned office? WTF? These people are nuts, I tell ya.

Hooray to friends getting the ride to work! yay!

Kitty love! *swoon*

Oh, and you are positively delicious in the icons here, meow indeed!

Yeah, apparently Wescoe might be dangerous in other ways besides just being a visual blight.

you are positively delicious in the icons here, meow indeed!

Aw, thanks!

I miss you but not Wescoe. Get outta there and come be my Anschutz buddy. We have good AC and lots of plugs.

Also, where'd you see the wedding pics? I'm dying of the wanttosee.

Anschutz is such a pretty building. Lucky you! I'm not sure there are any jobs there that I would be both qualified for and interested in. When I left the world of computer tech support, I swore never to return.

She brought the photos by the office. Email her to ask about scheduling a viewing! I'm sure she'd love to share.

thanks for the heads up on that pattern, its on my list.

I always have to drop the waist-being tall with these protruding ta-ta's pulls bodices UP! and I barely read instructions so I'll be sure to double check the stupid collar stuff!

OK, if you're gonna make this, here's the trick on the collar.

The directions say to only stitch the un-notched side, and baste the outside edges. That's standard collar procedure, right? But the illustration shows you only stitching around the first curve, not the second, sharper curve that is perpendicular to the notched, unstitched edge that attaches to the bodice (you'll see what I mean when you look at the pattern piece). If you trim and turn *without* sewing all the way around to the un-notched straight side, that flap of the upper collar that forms the top half of the lapel "V" shape along with the placket facing is going to be unsewn and you're going to have to rip off of the facing and half the collar to get it to turn inside out to sew together that last inch and a half of collar.

Does that make any sense at all?

Actually, if you don't follow instructions and just put in the collar like you would on any other garment, you'll probably be fine. =D

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