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Rundown of the Afternoon: Clubs, Lit, Clubs, Yakky, Clover, Manager, Photos, fuckin' Proctor&Gamble

Snagged the attention of Sheldon on our mutual way out of the lab where he'd held his COBOL class. (Thanks, Admiral Hopper.) Pitched my idea of a security club to him. He was enthusiastic, and told me to go set it up with Student Services.

Sat through a discussion in Lit class. Thank gods that I've mouthed off enough that the teacher doesn't need me to contribute any more. This way, I can just do the reading, do the assignments, take the quizzes, and speak when spoken to (and otherwise read non-assignment materials).

Dropped in at Student Services. The person I'd need to speak with wasn't getting in until 1, of course, which meant I had to write a note and then nip home.

Came home, hugged

yaksha42, and showed him the new sign in the bathroom. The sign instructs him, specifically, to return the toilet seat to the way it belongs, with stick-figure illustrations showing the why of things.

Clover came over just as Yakky was leaving, bearing honey cakes.

shammash; raver-girl must have been hiding somewhere. Little Fayoumis got the corner for demanding rudely that she get the peanut butter down for him; after he came back out, he asked nicely.

As Clover was about to leave,

votania called with the delightful news that she's to be getting her official promotion-and-raise-and-new-authority on Friday! She will be a manager! Keys, new uniform, new pay rate, new training, new responsibilities! She's thrilled. (She's good. She's been there less than a year.) The cellphone seems to be in working order, w00t.

I finally opened the mail.

swallowtayle, and an inquiry in a small box from Proctor & Gamble as to whether or not I was a "pearl girl".

swallowtayle sent pictures, with notes on the backs of them. I shall now relate approximately my thoughts going through them.

D.C. with her daughter and a teddybear. D.C.'s looking happy.

swallowtayle with her violin in The Old Pequliar for the St. Patty's Day show. Sounds slightly Lovecraftian.

swallowtayle in a suit and tie; River in a wig and dress. Yowza: hot male or female!! (It's great to share an ex with your sister.)

River by "her"self. Yum.

swallowtayle in drag with our other mutual ex, at SFAC. That was the getup that surprised the holy fuck out of me the next morning, when Aidan wandered into my room, wearing his flannel. I mean, here I am, it's early morning, I'm dressed accordingly and in bed, and I'm not wearing my glasses, and here's this STRANGE LONG-HAIRED GUY-WITH-A-BEARD WHO'S ONLY WEARING A FLANNEL! Turned out to be

swallowtayle in drag. Ah, those were the days.

swallowtayle and violin, with black hat, sunglasses, black lipstick, black nail polish, and nose ring. Magnetic, that. It was evidently school spirit day. (School colors were red and gold.) *snicker* Oh yeah, we loved that school. Couldn't get enough of it.

Aww.

swallowtayle and River, looking happy together. Cleavage, serious cleavage, is showing. Must have been a club night or something, I figured, as there's a serious amount of glitter.

Same night, different pose, probably within the same thirty seconds. Now they're gazing enraptured into each other's eyes instead of the camera.

YAAAAGH! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!! River, yeah, fine, he's looking normal, but... MY BABY SISTER IN 'FUCK ME' BOOTS AND HER BRA AND A G-STRING WEARING A BODYSTOCKING AND PURPLE GLITTER?!!?!?1!? !THE FUCK????? "Before the 'Pajama Party' dance at UAF... yes, we actually went out in public like that!" she wrote on the back. Um. Yeah. Um. GHA!!!

River. Black shirt, dreads. Always such a sweetie.

River. Boxers. Nothin' else. YOWZA! Dude! When'd he get the tattoo? Nice!

swallowtayle's senior pic. Got that one already.

Trees! From home! Never realized Alaskan spruce were so scraggly before. Love 'em all the same.

Home!!! Home home home!! That's even FatherSir opening the door. Wow. I miss home.

After remembering to breathe again after seeing perhaps a little too much of my little sister, I opened the Proctor and Gamble box. Ah, tampons. And the "fresh scent" is virtually identical to Exclamation perfume. Waitaminute. Plastic? Grr.

I received a free sample of your new product, Tampax Pearl, and I am shocked to learn that you are now offering plastic applicators.

One of my primary reasons for choosing Tampax over other brands was your constant use of biodegradable cardboard applicators and wrappers. Now that your use of plastic has released me from inconvenient notions of brand loyalty, rest assured that I will feel free to compare your traditional scent-free cardboard applicator tampons against similar styles from your competitors.

Additionally, they use query strings, which can just be tacky. (Says the petty-minded geek with the new bit of website knowledge.) Grr.

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Scented tampons are sick and wrong. Can we say, "Nasty rash in hiding" or "Oh goody, a pH imbalance"? Yeek.

Happily, I've never used the things and don't intend to start. The sample tampons were actually scentless, but there was a peel-and-sniff scent patch for the "fresh scent".

And "fresh scent" is... just conceptually wrong anyway.

Freshly-mixed chemicals, maybe.

Fresh scent is the scent that something has by virtue of being, well, fresh! Gha. Stupid marketing.

Print this out... along with the caption.

I'm sure the males will get the clue.

The ones here at work sure 'nuff did.

*giggle*

My sign says, "<FIRSTNAME> <LASTNAME>, PUT THE SEAT DOWN!" And then it has a sketch of a stick figure falling into the toilet, captioned "BAD", and a stick figure sitting on the toilet happily, captioned "GOOD".

I think he got the message fairly well. And it's positioned so anyone standing in front of the toilet will see it.

Some real women live in households with no-wasted-motions toilet seat rules: "Leave the toilet seat in whichever position and check before you use it."

That's a sensible policy for shared bathrooms.

w/r/t the pictures (all of them) of

swallowtayle: "share and share alike!" :)

Mr. School Scanner and I may have some fun...

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