Many years ago, I got a rather suggestive message from a number not in my contact list. I showed it to my manager on duty, saying “ha ha check this out, someone sent a dirty text to the wrong number.” Manager looked at the number and said, “Uh, I think that’s the boss’s number.” Checked the number against his phone.…

We’re colorblind. If you’re late to a meeting, you have to do the I’m A Little Teapot dance in front of everybody, no matter who you are!

Extra wide feet, bunion, high instep... men’s shoes are a godsend. Even my one pair of 4" Mary Jane heels came from a company that caters to drag queens.

I see how it works now. Not quite what I need - if I’m drawing hair, frex, I need a fine edge on an eraser to create highlights, flyaways, etc. Almost like drawing with negative space. I can see where the shield would be useful, just not in what I do, or at least not enough to justify having yet ANOTHER gewgaw in my…

I have never seen such a thing. I’ll have to look into it and how it works.

I’ve seen these called cupcake dresses.

I’m not in love with them, but they’re the best I can find that will do the job. The cheap pink erasers frequently leave marks/scrapes, and I don’t like the gum/kneaded erasers, but the latex rubs cleanly. Unfortunately, they are a little fragile and break around the pencil fairly quickly with vigorous rubbing, so I…

I’m a portrait artist (anathemaproject.com), not a botanical artist, but I adore Caran d’Ache Grafwoods and I happily fork over the money (I even spent $5 on one of their specialty HB pencils and would do it again), because every other pencil I’ve tried - Faber Castell, Derwent, etc. - just doesn’t lay down as crisply…

I lived in Baltimore for quite a few years. A large chunk of those shootings and deaths are drug and gang related. You might get mugged (I never did), but you’re likely not going to get shot/killed unless you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time. As with any large city, just pay attention to your surroundings and…

I went to the hospital *expecting* cauterization, but the blood vessel in question was too far up in my sinus, so I got the tampon instead.

It was very upsetting to be the recipient! Pretty much everything bad that happens to me gets held up against “tampon up the nose for four days in a foreign hospital.”

There is a thing called nasal packing, for epistaxis (uncontrollable nosebleed) where the equivalent of a junior sized tampon is shoved up your nose into your sinus, inflated, and left in place for a few days.

I have the shoulders of a linebacker. Anything that fits me from the ribs up is a tent from the waist down. All I want is *gentle* tailoring, just enough to nip things in at the waist and hip but not bursting at the boobs (which aren’t really the problem - I could wear those bralettes but they’re never WIDE enough.)

I love mid-rise jeans. I’m so long-waisted that anything at or above the waist is *never* long enough and I get pinched in the doodads, plus it’s unflattering on my belly. Mid-rise jeans have about an inch’s worth of grace around the navel, and the waistband keeps my gut contained.

Velvet Goldmine is an amazing flick and all the Ewan peen made me fan myself, but Christian Bale hunched over the photo was a special kind of “oh my” even if it wasn’t explicit.

Sometimes we do. We fired a dipshit kid a couple weeks ago for using the N word to one of his coworkers in pretty much this exact same scenario (celebrating that Obama was out of office).

That’s where I turn to “what can I do to mitigate the damage” and if the answer is nothing, remind myself that freaking out won’t improve anything.

My routine is a few minutes of mindfulness - I’ll sit there and sort through exactly what’s freaking me out, why it’s freaking me out, what’s the worst that can happen, what can I do to prevent it, etc. Sometimes I have to change my surroundings - go out on the balcony, go for a fifteen minute walk, etc. Anxiety…

My mother smoked for 40 years, until chemo made them taste so bad she couldn’t abide them anymore. Not lung cancer, thankfully, but the experience scared her straight, finally.

I’m on Virgin Mobile. You have to buy the phone upfront, but there’s no contract, and I pay $40/mo for unlimited talk/text and 4GB of LTE data, with a $5 discount for autopay via Paypal. Found a nice refurbished phone on ebay, and everything’s been gravy for the two years I’ve been using the service.