hey, this is really helpful—i live in seattle, which has winter and everything, but i'm going to iceland next week, where, ahem, the winter is a little different. i hear.

@DanseManatee: hey, thanks! i looooove this dress—it was a thrift score, i think from the '60s or '70s. i wanna make a pattern out of it and get a bunch of them in different patterns.

@funchefchick: dude, i was so confused. i had to stand there and stare for like five minutes before i figured it out. the message could be a little less opaque (no pun).

we've been celebrating diwali at work today (about half of the office is southern asian) and i keep thinking of mindy/kelly. "diwali is AWESOME. and there's food and there's going to be dancing, and oh, and i've got the raddest outfit."

@klaxons, not centaurs: i've listened to nelly furtado's "all good things" about 150 times at work today. including right now.

@hydrozoa: it's an ad for kinect. anyone else think this is kind of creepy?

i work at microsoft and found this in the ladies' room this morning.

@hydrozoa: OK, i'm all set up. thank you for being a tea genius. or a friday night genius.

@Sorsha: i am so going to get up and make a cup of earl grey tea right this second. excuse me.

@No.Wave: OK, cool. i was gonna say. (and, uh, did say.)

I just posted the first entry in my new theater blog on the Seattle P-I site and I am so. excited. It's specifically geared toward fringe, cabaret, burlesque, and other breeds of small-time local theater, since there's not much room in the local press devoted to theater and the big productions are usually what gets…

i thought camille and kelsey filed for divorce. didn't he knock up a lady half his age? and they're engaged-or-married now?

long nails freak me out. even unpainted ones. shiver.

@Honeybunch: That's true, I've seen the elderlies dissed a few times. Usually by teens, but yeah.

@chunkypumpky: OK, I agree that it is useful for nonfats to know some fats to apply their learnings—I just meant if I had to choose a class for this subject, I'd choose nons. But you do make a good point in that they may not already know any.

As the daughter of a Metro driver (Seattle), I ride public transit a lot and am very conscientious about seat-offering. Although a lady and her fidgety four year-old were standing last night and I offered my seat, and the she just glared at me and took it, then continued yelling at the kid, like I'm some kind of…

@blondebeer: aw ha haw haw ha. vagina gymnastics. why, yes, i'm a vagymnast.

Fat Studies classes tend to have a dearth of actual fat people.

@Snarfblat: right back atcha. :)

@Snarfblat: Yeah, I don't know if it's paternalistic (it might be!), but the divacuppers are seriously a cult. I keep thinking of that episode of King of the Hill where Luanne joins a sorority and they're forced to be vegetarians and work all day making jam for the church and everyone changes their name to Jane.