FYI my twitter is shellybean. I've got nothing better to do while I sit and wait, so I'm tweeting a lot.

An update, just b/c I find it interesting. Mom and I went out in Gulfport around 3pm. All the big grocery stores are closed and about half the gas stations are as well. Curfew isn't until 10 though. Driving around an area that is normally packed with people and traffic and seeing so many empty parking lots is surreal.

Checking in. I'm at my family's house in Gulfport, MS. I think we're gonna stay instead of go North. We live North of I-10 and have a very sturdy house and a huge generator. I think we're only expecting 12 hours of tropical storm level winds here.

@girlscoutcookie:

I think my bf would be fine with it, but if he's talking to me in the bathroom, I just ask him to please step outside so I can change my tampon in private. I don't even like to do it around other girls!

@Trashtastic: you will be assimilated!

@LauraNOLA:

@technotica:

@spinal77:

I'm also living in NOLA. I am very fortunate b/c I have a wonderful aunt in Jackson,Ms who takes us in for all of our evacuations (my parents live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast) and I have to keep reminding myself of my unbelievable good fortune in the face of the storm- I have family to take me in, a job with a…

I bake, sew, knit, make my own yogurt, etc...completely devoid of irony. Its because after working all day as an engineer in an office filled primarily with old men, I need to go home and bake to feel balanced! (Although I will say that some of those old men bring the excellent results of their own baking to work.…

Also born on this day: ME!!!

I totally had this issue when I went on vacation with my bf this summer. I'm usually regular as a clock, but for some reason, I got really constipated. My stomach was killing me, so I just fessed up to the problem and when I finally dissapeared into the bathroom for a looooong while, my bf knew not to ask why. :)

I spend about $150 every 6 weeks on color/cut/brow wax. It is a big splurge but I love my hair and can't keep my brows wrangled without professional help. I would be willing to go back to my natural color if I fell on hard times, but there are certainly sacrifices I would make before I stopped paying for my hair. Case…

You know though, my school had uniforms and required that we remove the labels from our clothes and things like that and the kids there still found ways to exclude other kids based on what they were wearing. The example I remember the most was literally sock length. One year socks would have to be mid-calf, another…

Have all of her other pants been destroyed in a fire?

I believe.

I callz dis luk "purpul steel"

You are so too photogenic! And oddly enough, I really like the "unflattering" photo. I'm not sure why, but the glasses and the wild hair just look really cool to me.

This is literally why I changed parties and began supporting abortion. (I was brainwashed by my strict southern baptist republican upbringing for a while- but the horrible state of the economy and the debacle that is the Iraq situation provide me with good evidence that my change of heart was a wise one). I just want…