vw, thanks! You look lovely (I like your hair dark), the cake looks yummy, and Emily looks so very beautiful and happy! Complete with silver nail polish and a radiant smile.

Theo, no, I haven't seen it yet (has billytea?). It's awesome! Great picture, and you look great in it, too.

It's amazing, looking at these pictures and actually knowing the people. Of course, I can't help but miss you guys and your very pleasant company when I look at the pictures, but, hey, it's better to have looked-and-missed than to have never looked at all. Or something.

I kind of like Eliza's dress in theory, nsm in practice.

Well, that's a million parts of it. Okay, I also think he's tremendously pretty, but DAMN. He's incandescent musically. I don't think singing is as sexy as some folks do, but so much of his songs are sex, and so well done, that even though he's five foot and hope, wears more makeup than I do, and presses his hair -- oh, in a hot second.

Oh, my, yes.

I just called in to work for no good reason at all, and now I'm kind of wishing I hadn't.

I hate that! Ruins a perfectly good hookey day with guilt!

Nilly!

Thanks for all the pics, guys (especially ita)

Hec, good luck with the CYA documentation. It's tricky to demonstrate that your boss has fucked up while he/she is still your boss. I have every faith you'll work it out though. Just double check every email you send, if you still have a fever. IJS.

In general I think celebs should pose well, because it's part of their job. And that's kinda why Orlando takes the same picture again and again (or Paris, how geographical). However, they're just walking. They don't get the privilege of being able to stop and arrange for every camera pop. Sometimes they do, and still look like crap.

Nora! Seeing you in vw's pictures, and now seeing your screen name, how nice.

ita, remember I told you after the krav class that maybe I should have imagined, for the kicking, the face of somebody? A guy who just disappeared on my roommate after going out with her for months? Well, that's the roommate who got engaged and will get married in two months. To a completely different guy (and a much nicer one, too, even without the disappearing). Life is strange and interesting.

I think no one else hates Natalie Portman's dress enough. It has too many different periods of fashion history all in one

Oh dear. I couldn't see the bottom of Natalie's dress in the pic linked last night. Yuck.

Life is strange and interesting.

This is why you can't kick people, isn't it? Because it might all work out anyway.

I don't mind the bottom of Natalie's dress. Sure, she'd look like she was wearing a nightie, but it'd be young and kinda ... relaxed. The belt is evil incarnate.

Ouise! I never even congratulated you on the job and the exams-passing and stuff, that's how long I hadn't posted with you!

Thanks, Nilly. It's mostly my fault - I've hardly been here at all. Shocking, I know. It's lovely to see you again!

I now have dough rising for the making of cinnamon buns. I decided to make a double batch, because it's that sort of day.

Cindy, I think you described the dress very well. Also, you look lovely in picture as well as in face-space

It's funny, Nilly, (well, to me, in that I do this with my husband and friends, too) that when I see photographs of friends who are clearly happy and having fun, they are my favorite photos, even if they aren't glamour shots.

A few times, Teppy has linked photos of herself where she is convinced she looks like a total dork, and I *love* them, because she looks so happy, and like she's just having a great time. I am missing that "happiness filter" when I look at pictures of myself. That photo you linked of us, is one of those photos. However, I remember how much fun we were having with Ellen giving her orders for us to be candid, so I enjoy it, even while I'm mentally wearing out the airbrush on myself.

I think no one else hates Natalie Portman's dress enough. It has too many different periods of fashion history all in one

Oh, Sophia. I hadn't seen that black band/belt/whatever on her dress, before. That's tragic. I think I would like the dress if that was gone, even with the other elements left intact. She is such a beautiful woman.