Um. That would be professor.

Turns out that the best drug is the one produced by the sponsoring company.

SHOCKING!

Oh, Lindsey. Now she has a Problem.

Via Defamer, the most awesome bitchslap to a ridiculously spoiled Hollywood starlet I've ever seen: >[link]

It's good for a star to not be so big s/he can't be told off. It's when they can't be told off that they end up freaks or dead. 5 bucks the guy told his assistant, "And leak this letter, too."

This is the Colbert Report! >[link]

Oh my word. That's the cutest thing I've seen in a long time. LOVE!

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Megan, don't feel bad! I walked out of the bathroom with my skirt tucked into my underpants just last week! My friend Anuradha saw me just as I was realizing it and kind as herself is, she pointed and laughed. I managed to get myself sorted before anyone else saw. I had to laugh too; it's just classic. WTF, I have a nice tush.

The blasted BMI says I'm fucking obese. WTF. I'm rounder than necessary, sure, but seriously now. Obese? I don't think so.

Does anyone here subscribe to the journal Nature? I want to, but purely out of curiousity, and it's expensive, so I'm wondering if it's worth it, or if everything cool will eventually trickle down to the "popular" science mags anyway.

Note to self: stop buying vintage clothes on eBay. Too much money and sometimes they don't even fit, because women were smaller back then or something.

Zenkitty, I have decided the problem with vintage clothes is my lack of Proper Undergarments. Anything that fits in the waist is too big in the chest, because I'm not wearing a girdle and a bullet bra.

Does anyone here subscribe to the journal Nature? I want to, but purely out of curiousity, and it's expensive, so I'm wondering if it's worth it, or if everything cool will eventually trickle down to the "popular" science mags anyway.

Most of the articles themselves are hard for a nonspecialist to understand. So the people who are reading the first paper in an issue probably can't understand the third paper. Or I may be projecting, because I can never understand more than one paper in an issue.

But the cool stuff usually gets a more accessible editorial summary, and those summaries are usually freely available on the web at nature.com or if you really only want things from the flagship journal, nature.com/nature.

All universities have an online subscription, so I bet that a Buffista could set you up with any paper you can't get for free.

And anything that fits in the bust is too tight in the waist... Jesse, you're right! I just need vintage undergarments! A girdle and a bullet bra! Oh, as usual, dear.

Rick, thanks, that's about what I expected. Sometimes I can access the abstracts, which are really all I need, but sometimes I can't get even that without a subscription. I'm going to check with our librarian to see if our institution has a subscription (I doubt it).

And anything that fits in the bust is too tight in the waist... Jesse, you're right! I just need vintage undergarments! A girdle and a bullet bra! Oh, as usual, dear.

It's such a universal problem, and I don't think my proportions are so odd, that I'm really convinced that's the problem with vintage.

FWIW, a longline bullet bra will usually do just as well to fit you into vintage dresses as a regular bullet bra and a girdle, and they're not impossible to find on eBay. Plus, a fair number of vintage longlines have some light boning in the body but no underwires in the bust. The lack of underwire is just sheerly blissful.

Ah, but if I did that, then I might discover that they STILL don't fit, and that would never do!

Question: If I go back to my hairdresser to get my cut fixed, do I tip her again?