@Nell_fersher: Yeah, those look silly. The way mine work is that you slide them around the bottom edge of the mattress and the sheet on each side. I'm not explaining that well, but I have no idea how to. They are visible (if you're looking), but they keep the sheets from coming up. And even though they're in the…

@Nell_fersher: I have these and I love them:

@Squabble: I also have fine, stick-straight hair. I part my hair over my left eye, which works fine. My hairdresser tried giving me long bangs, and they looked fine but I couldn't stand having hair in my face. I was supposed to use hairspray every day to get them to stay to the side, but that's just not a part of my…

@LionAndUnicorn: Yes! Isn't it crazy? He looks so different!

This morning I opened my RSS Reader to see an event happening in my city on Sunday! One I really want to go to! Free tickets to the first 500 people to e-mail!

@LionAndUnicorn: Good luck!

@MiloMinderbender (will sell you shares of the syndicate.): I think that works! Good luck!

@MiloMinderbender (will sell you shares of the syndicate.): Maybe not enough, but definitely a good start! (Or I know too many guys/people who are dense. And I say this as someone who is dense.)

I slept most of today, despite a completely uneventful week. I think I might have caught a case of cat.

@j_rawr: *HUGS*

Jezzies, I need music suggestions! I'm putting together a jazz mix I can belt out in the car, but I don't normally listen to much jazz. Here's what I've got so far:

@vee: Since everyone else answered your basic question, I'll just say that Vision Direct is usually cheaper than 1-800-Contacts and sometimes offers deals on shipping or sales. I really like them.

I think I may be getting cynical. I'm sort of watching TV, and a commercial came on that was all, "did you know it's possible for someone to love you for exactly who you are?" and I looked up fully expecting it to be an animal adoption ad. It was for eHarmony.

@Alpine Joe: It was part of the Scott Baio feud. Here's the post with that one: [jezebel.com]

@Ginger Gal: I had this recently, and what really disturbed me was that I was sleeping in the living room, in front of my open patio door, and what brought me into the semi-conscious state was that I heard something on the patio. I'm pretty sure now it was the cat throwing herself against the screen to get at a…

@pileofmonkeys: Sounds considerably less combative than my response was. :) I was absolutely heartbroken that it came from this particular uncle. I hate that Facebook is so efficient at telling you the people you love sometimes think abysmally stupid things.

@pileofmonkeys: I got into a huge Facebook fight this week with a normally open-minded uncle who was spewing this shit. Fortunately, several of his friends also pointed out the assholery.

@emdy: Agreed and agreed! I'm hoping someone decides to organize sympathy rallies for people who can't go to DC.

@RousseMacabre, from Ravenclaw: A friend lent me a book by Piers Anthony once, and I was afraid to write anything for MONTHS, because what if I was as bad as this guy, who got published, and my friends loved me too much to tell me?

@talk_hockey_to_me: "Violet, make a force field around the plane!" Glad I'm not the only one who cries during an animated children's movie.