"As some of you may know, and others of you seem to be having difficulty accepting, today is my last day at [FIRM]."

That's hilarious. Or, you know, frustrating, depending on one's perspective.

Anyone wanna guess who called the moment I walked in the door?

He was calling to tell me HE WASN'T LOST! And in fact, had figured out where he was lost on Saturday. @@

I know some people who are *heavily* into body modification, and the usual reason for them is because they want to/they feel they should look a certain way. silveraj on LJ is one of the primary examples I can think of. I would love to meet her one of these days.

Is the page kid safe, Jilli? My daughter keeps flitting in and out of the room. I don't care if she sees unusual piercings or modifications. I wouldn't want to expose her to genital or breast piercings or modification pictures.

With temporary piercings like the dude with all the piercings in his back, or the way cool-looking corset piercings, many many (though not all) people get a SERIOUS endorphin rush from the piercing and/or removal of same.

That I do get. Before I knew that these things were often temporary, it was the living with my back full of jewelry, day in and day out that I was trying to understand.

For those of you resigning, today is the last day of a friend of mine (who stayed a couple more days just for health benefits) and she's complaining that some partner won't stop giving her work. Her departure email is currently reading, "As some of you may know, and others of you seem to be having difficulty accepting, today is my last day at [FIRM]."

Hee! Good for her.

Cindy, the pictures are work-safe. (There's adult content in the user profile text, but it's not immediately visible until you scroll down and actually read it.)

And now, trivia from Wikipedia! [eta -- nothing to do with body modification, just a bit of amusement]

In Western medicine, female hysteria was an incorrectly diagnosed medical condition that is not currently acknowledged by the medical community. It was a popular diagnosis in the Victorian era for a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and a ”tendency to cause trouble”.[1]

Patients diagnosed with female hysteria would undergo "pelvic massage" — manual stimulation of the woman's genitals by the doctor to "hysterical paroxysm", which is now recognized as orgasm.

These cases were quite profitable for physicians, since the patients were at no risk of death but needed constant treatment. The only problem was that physicians did not enjoy the tedious task of massage: the technique was difficult for a physician to master and took hours to achieve ”hysterical paroxysm”. Referral to midwives, which had been common practice, meant a loss of business for the physician.[1]

A solution was the invention of massage devices, which shortened treatment from hours to minutes, removing the need for midwives and increasing a physician’s treatment capacity. Already at the turn of the century, hydrotherapy devices were available at Bath, and by the mid-nineteenth century, they were popular at many high-profile bathing resorts across Europe and in America. By 1870 a clockwork driven vibrator was available for physicians, and in 1873 the first electromechanical vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria.

Is the page kid safe, Jilli? My daughter keeps flitting in and out of the room. I don't care if she sees unusual piercings or modifications.

Photo-wise, yes. There's swearing and pervy language, but the pictures are kid safe.

A solution was the invention of massage devices

Good Vibrations has an antique vibrator museum, with a wide array of these venerable "medical" devices.

In Western medicine, female hysteria was an incorrectly diagnosed medical condition that is not currently acknowledged by the medical community.

Well, that exact word is no longer used, but everyone knows that the diagnoses of conversion disorder, somatization disorder, and histrionic personality disorder cover different parts of the old hysteria diagnosis.

The diagnosis of hysteria itself goes back to good old Hippocrates. It gets it's name from his theory that the symptoms were cause by a "wandering uterus" that had lodged somwhere in the body where it did not belong.

Oh thank god -- I got that 01:02:03 04/05/06 thing from my father. I was wondering why no one had emailed it to me yet. Also luckily, it had the "once in a lifetime" caveat, not the NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAIN!!!!11!!

Jesse, I got that e-mail from my uncle just now.

But -- how can it be "once in a lifetime"? What about 01:02:03 PM?

That's 13 hundred hours, sailor.