meara-ing, slightly:

I think princess seams are vertical and run from under the bust to where the garment starts to largen out for the hips.

In *my* world, princess seams (which are indeed vertical) start at the shoulders and run to at least the hips. I suspect that "princess waist" is a term made up by wedding & prom dress manufacturers who wanted something cute sounding that would mean the dress was fitted at the waist and had a full(ish) skirt.

So, like, what kind of raises are folks in the IT industry getting?

Also with Plei in contract employee-ville, but I've gotten around $2-3 more an hour each contract. I think it has something to do with the fact of my resume getting more and more arcane, which lets my agency say things like "Look at all her experience with hard-to-define tech! You should pay us more money for her!"

However, I don't think my friends at the EE are reporting any large raises, either.

None of mine have mentioned raises, large or otherwise.

But tomorrow I get to fall off a surfboard repeatedly.

Ordinarily, I'd warn to watch out for sharks. But since it's ita, maybe we should warn the sharks.

I think I need this:

Desktop Carnivorous Plant Set

Here at ThinkGeek, we truly understand you have needs. Especially at work where minutes often last hours and hours become days. You need to be entertained, you don't want your neurons to prematurely atrophy. You crave stimulation. You crave a Carnivorous desktop plant set. Perfect for the casual office worker who delights in watching insects slowly meet their makers as they are painfully digested by an engaging variety of meat-sucking flora.

Perfect for the casual office worker who delights in watching insects slowly meet their makers as they are painfully digested by an engaging variety of meat-sucking flora.

I would get one, but then I'd be tempted to start carving bits off of some of my dumber cow-orkers while singing selections from Little Shop of Horrors.

Hm, a little Carnivorous Plant Desk Set, a little Miracle-Gro...I'm seeing the possibilities of improving the workplace environment.

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

Not as bad as rotting corpses under your desk, I'm sure.

So there's that.

I think there's a flower that smells like rotting meat to attract flies (so it can eat them), but I don't think that's true of all carnivorous plants. I don't remember my Venus Flytrap having any smell at all.

I'm going to have to get one heck of a carnivorous plant if it's going to be able to dispose of a person's worth of meat all at once and therefore liberate me from the bother of rotting corpses under my desk. And my office is not big enough to accommodate Audrey II.

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

The other half of the GothFashion Hivemind had a collection of carnivorous plants, and none of them were ooky-smelling.

I started to glance through one of her big books about carnivorous plants, and she snatched it out of my hands, saying "No. You should not look at the pictures in this book, not with your issues about spiders." I decided to trust her on that count.