Heee! I was in Shenzhen (they have the KK100, though I think their 99th floor has a restaurant, not a bar)! Yay for China and ridiculously tall buildings! Next up, getting a drink spilled on you in the Pearl?

Were you in Southern China? I always wanted to go to the bar on the top floor of the stupidly tall building in my city but never made it up there.

Yeah, except kind of the whole point of this series is to show you that because of the bass-ackward way tipping and serving is treated in America, that you really have to tip no matter what. Stiffing a server on the tip is not "teaching them a lesson" about service- it's making it harder for them to eat.

Oh good. I wasn't the only one who was thinking "Women should do whatever the fuck they want, dammit!"

Oh my god, it looks /gorgeous/ in my brain. I bet it looks even better in person! If anyone gives you crap, they're just jealous that they're never going to be in anything that awesomely beautiful.

You're welcome! My main problem with Pyramid Collection is always that I love a ton of their stuff and cannot afford a single stitch of it.

And if J Peterman were a hippie with a steampunky side and not so damn preppy. So...not really anything like J Peterman? Other than the whole "I am dressing on purpose to look like an Interesting Person" thing?

Seriously. I mean, the Pyramid Collection has this: http://www.pyramidcollection.com/itemdy00.aspx?… and if I had 80 bucks to spare right now, IT WOULD BE MINE.

Dude. I LOVE the Pyramid Collection nonsense. If I had the money, I would go around looking just this side of a woodland glen all day every day.

Oh, satin. So lovely when it flows right. So horrible and unforgiving every other time.

I would love to see this anywhere, from runway to aisle. It's fantastic.

I think you were looking for this:

This is 100% accurate. It is apparently a desire beyond the realm of reason to want a pair of athletic shoes that do not look like Grandma's orthopedic Velcro sneakers AND YET also does not look like Lisa Frank's wet dream.

No love for Kane's? I swear, getting introduced to Kane's has been one of the best things about dating someone who lives on the North Shore. Nothing holds a candle to Linda's Bakery in Belmont, though. They got me to like cake doughnuts, and I HATE cake doughnuts.

I actually like them when they're just a bit past my fingertips. It's so much fun to drum your nails on a table, even if it drives other people crazy. It also makes fine motor work a lot easier, I think, since you can get a tiny tiny grip when you have longer nails.

That is a /damn/ sweet ride. Whoever bought it has excellent taste, as did your grandmother-in-law.

I honestly can't imagine having nails that long- my nails break if they get longer than 1/4" and honestly, by that point they're inconvenient enough that I just let them do it. I have no idea how ladies with 1/2-1" long nails live.

Your haircut is so cute! Have you found that the highlights affect the texture/styleability of your hair at all?

Auuugh, the continue button is not working for me so I can't show off -how big of a nerd I am- my ability to discern ren-faire dork from music-fest doofus. But really, it's all about the background and a distinct costume.

Yeah, and it's actually awesome, since leeches are a great way to get rid of blood that's pooling in a digit or limb due to circulatory issues and maggots are really good at eating only dead (necrotized) flesh while leaving healthy flesh alone. It's one of those weird things where modern medicine just isn't as good as…