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azurelunatic) wrote2007-07-31 10:22 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2007-07-31 10:22 pm
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Other little pieces.
http://cadhla.livejournal.com/1297088.html?#cutid1 -- The muffin top. Let me tell you how much I loathe it.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/31/0018241&from=rss -- Ted Stevens gets the Feds all up ins his place.
Hee hee hee. Occasionally, good financial karma hits me, in the form of how I often forget the exact setting between one ten-dollar increment and the next as it's supposed to appear on the rent check, and therefore I write it down for the next ten-dollar increment up. Sooner or later, this catches up with me, and someone points out that I have $whatever overpaid and I only need pay $whatever_else more. That's what happened today. :D You never know when you're going to need that little grace amount. I (knock wood) don't seem to need it need it this month, but it's that much more that I didn't have to come up with.
Next week I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning. You can imagine how much this thrills me.
Things I do not want: easy post emoticons on LJ. Getting up way too early. Many things. But easy post emoticons makes me snarly. A mood theme is good enough. Easy emoticons discourage one from attempting to paint the mood in words or original art. I like words and original art.
You know you have a good manager when you can discuss JKR's latest work in an adult and literate fashion, with an undertone of giggly fangirliness. Management has a thing for Legolas, also. :D (Secondary workplace.)
Boys from Canada are often cute, from the sampling I've seen. (There seem to be two in our class at work. The other lead geek in the back of the room is one of them. He is also married, so I'll keep my admiration to myself.) The guy with the red cube badge over thattaway is also cute. It doesn't hurt that he's in a position to be having a red cube badge.
The IRC channel that Ifrequent live in sometimes has impromptu nick theme nights. As a result of one of those, http status codes started creeping their way into nicks as short, content-rich away messages. Tonight there's a http status/area code mix theme going on. Insanity is being had. I am Azz|408 at the moment, because I am unlikely to respond within a timeframe that anyone would be willing to wait, but if they care to poke me when I am available, they're welcome to repeat whatever thing they wanted to ask me or tell me. :D I'm often Azz|503 when I'm having some scheduled downtime.
Test part 1 of that one thing that I promised to test is done; I'll have to wait until later for test part 2. Noting right now that the "join us" thing is not showing up at this time on my Cox; it's also showing a bright red message about nightly updates, though the timing is a good several hours off for what it claims to be.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/31/0018241&from=rss -- Ted Stevens gets the Feds all up ins his place.
Hee hee hee. Occasionally, good financial karma hits me, in the form of how I often forget the exact setting between one ten-dollar increment and the next as it's supposed to appear on the rent check, and therefore I write it down for the next ten-dollar increment up. Sooner or later, this catches up with me, and someone points out that I have $whatever overpaid and I only need pay $whatever_else more. That's what happened today. :D You never know when you're going to need that little grace amount. I (knock wood) don't seem to need it need it this month, but it's that much more that I didn't have to come up with.
Next week I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning. You can imagine how much this thrills me.
Things I do not want: easy post emoticons on LJ. Getting up way too early. Many things. But easy post emoticons makes me snarly. A mood theme is good enough. Easy emoticons discourage one from attempting to paint the mood in words or original art. I like words and original art.
You know you have a good manager when you can discuss JKR's latest work in an adult and literate fashion, with an undertone of giggly fangirliness. Management has a thing for Legolas, also. :D (Secondary workplace.)
Boys from Canada are often cute, from the sampling I've seen. (There seem to be two in our class at work. The other lead geek in the back of the room is one of them. He is also married, so I'll keep my admiration to myself.) The guy with the red cube badge over thattaway is also cute. It doesn't hurt that he's in a position to be having a red cube badge.
The IRC channel that I
Test part 1 of that one thing that I promised to test is done; I'll have to wait until later for test part 2. Noting right now that the "join us" thing is not showing up at this time on my Cox; it's also showing a bright red message about nightly updates, though the timing is a good several hours off for what it claims to be.
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Re discussing HP in the workplace: Funny you mention that. Just the other day, I was in a meeting with a supervisor and some co-workers, and guess what the starting topic of discussion was? XD One of the co-workers, a middle-aged lady, was practically squeeing over having gotten to see Order of the Phoenix recently, and she is hardly one given to such fangirlishness. :D
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Ah, yes. Yet another "happy fat chick" bashing
a) people with healthier bodies and
b) people who'd really like to weigh more.
Which seems to be the last acceptable frontier.
I was a size 0 for most of my adult life. I'm talking before I got sick. And I was a healthy-bodied woman with breasts and hips. When I got sick, when I dropped 50 pounds... the sheer nastiness people like your friend aimed my way, the dirty looks, the snide comments...
Eat a sandwich, indeed. People like her ought to eat a sandwich; it would keep their mouths shut.
Am currently a 6 in my jeans and a 4 in Anthropologie, so the vanity-sizing point is valid. But there's no need to bash women who weigh less than her. It's mean, it's petty, it's stupid, it's bad form all around.
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Yes, she went off for a bit on the idea of size 0 (and 00), but to me it seemed to be more along the lines of "How do these numbers mean anything?" Zero implies that nothing is there, and yet even you, 'Song, at your smallest, had presence. You were there (even though some of us were getting rather worried at the shrinking). When Cadhla rants about basic human anatomy not fitting those sizes, she's referring to the marketing ploys that tell me that I am a huge cow because I will never manage to shove my pelvic bones (even if I were somehow able to drop the muscle, skin, etc. surrounding those bones) into the size 0 pants you used to wear. Y'know, I'm 5'8" tall. The only way I'm ever getting into anything less than a size 10 is if I slice myself vertically into two people. (Hell, even the size 10 isn't really possible unless I drop an inch and/or become anorexic. When I first hit my full height/end of vertical growth spurt, the smallest jeans I could wear were 9/10s, and that was before I got hips.)
Also, 'Song? Fat does not necessarily equal unhealthy any more than skinny equals healthy. I know you know this, but it bears repeating.
Me? I'm with the folks asking for truth in sizing. Why can't I buy pants marked as an X-inch waist like my hubby can? OK, so I could buy men's pants, but then the hips/butt won't fit.... Personally, I don't even like the S,M,L,XL (etc.) sizing. I'm a L in some clothes, an XL in others, and a 3XL in yet other clothes.