Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
And now I am at work, trying to be sensible.
Why? Be insensible! Go insensible!
There is medicine and special food and 'he has to sleep between your legs' and 'the other one can't be out in the heat (it's currently 90F).
Okay, medicine, special food I can understand. Not being out in the heat for too long I get, too. But has to sleep between my legs? Nuh and uh. I love my cat, but we have our own sleep spots on the bed. I need room to move.
When Minion and his wife took care of Lucy for a weekend, he apologized in advance for not letting Lucy sleep in the bed with them.
Please. She doesn't get to sleep in the bed with me. I certainly wouldn't expect it of anyone else. (Fortunately, neither would she.)
Our dog, Cody, will sleep on my mom's bed but the few times he has been invited to hop on my bed he always looks like he is waiting to be excused from interloping in our space. Strange dog.
Scritch Bartleby for me. Sweet dog.
From that article
the divine Ripley from the Aliens franchise, not to mention everyone's favorite vampire slayer
Yup, that's some cultural imbedding there. And, yes, Ripley is my Goddess.
and i liked the last two movies, yes, i did
Another thing from that article
That's something most women struggle with: the fact that we're allowed to take up space, whether it be psychological or physical
Fat as power, hm. Some people get antsy when I don't hunch in on myself or don't try pretend I'm as big as I am. Standing up straight--all 5'2" of me--and letting the pudge fall where it may somehow makes me intimidating.
I can live with that.
(I keep trying to figure out how I learned to stare straight back at the world, to not be a mouse. Because too many people have commented on how tough/strong/etc. I seem, and I don't think I'm doing anything out of the ordinary. What goes on in the minds of the rest of the world, that it makes sense to not be what is apparently perceived as strong?
Has anyone here ever made a life mask? Theatre folk? I'm suddenly curious about them.
You mean like a paster cast of your face? We did them in my church youth group at some point, using what I remember as bandages with plaster imbedded, so we just wet them and slopped them on. The process was pretty cool, and really easy, logistically.
Some people get antsy when I don't hunch in on myself or don't try pretend I'm as big as I am.
yeah. I also don't give up shared armrests without a fight.
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The masks I made involved making a cast of the face, for which we needed plaster strips, water, vaseline, and straws. Then the positive was made after this dried, using alginate. I am not sure how expensive this would be, asI did it in college. Also, our primary need was to make masks, not prosthetics, so we might have less detail than you would need for that.
yeah. I also don't give up shared armrests without a fight.
Totally.
Why does morning keep showing up? Surely it must know by now that it is just not wanted.
I can't understand why today isn't Friday. I mean, this week has already been, like, 13 days long!
That's something most women struggle with: the fact that we're allowed to take up space, whether it be psychological or physical
I didn't read the article, so I might be missing context but my reaction to this statement is, no, women are NOT allowed to take up space. Physical OR psychological. At least, not in the 21st-century world that I live in. Would that it were so, but it just ain't.
t edit So I just read the article, and I see that Ouellette made the same point I made, but with a positive girl-power spin on it. So pls. to ignore this post kthxbai.