well today's little outing into inner Queens (Ozone Park) convinced me that I will never live further out than I am now, not without a spouse with decent income and a car.

What makes you think he didn't? Is that exactly the kind of person Bush likes to have around?

Good point.

What if the spouse had a root, msbelle?

I'm on day #2 of "Leave the house? You crazy? This hurts." I've sent an email off to my GP asking how I'm supposed to be coping with it, since I'm doing such a crap job. I wish my friend were here so I could get his help dealing, but is wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit"

Don't hold back - tell him how you REALLY feel.

Congrats, Miracleman. Hope Aimee's "many more" is an accurate prediction.

Here's hoping all of this year's hurricanes avoid our Gulf-istas.

Apparently once Humberto moves inland, it's either going to stall out over Mississippi and cause flooding, or else it's going to gradually move over the parts of central Alabama that are having their worst drought ever (when I was there last month they were ~15 inches short of normal rainfall on the year). Go Alabama, Humberto! Choose Alabama!

Congratulations, MM! Clearly the new apartment got some kind of better-things~ma rolling for you guys.

I really like the basic 10 list, although I have practically fuck-all that's on it.

Basic Black Dress: Um, actually, no. I had the perfect BBD a few years ago, but lost it in a laundromat, and it was cut closely enough that it wouldn't hang right on my post-Matilda body anyway. I have a couple of BDs, but they're emphatically not basic.

Trenchcoat: Nope, though I have been longing for one ever since that power shot of Buffy rounding the corner at Sunnydale High in her powder blue short trench (though I'd need something more like megan's awesome eggplant trench).

Classic Dress Pants: One pair, not quite classic but definitely dressy.

Blazer: one black, one black pinstripe. Would love more.

Skirt: Four worky-type skirts, two fancy, one double-duty.

Classic White Shirt: Nope, but I covet the one shown on, IIRC, the second episode of Tim Gunn's show - very tailored looking, but in a wrap, not button-down.

Day Dress: Two.

Jeans: One.

Sweatsuit alternative: Yup.

Cashmere sweater: One, black.

Bonus item: Corset, I guess, though I haven't dared try it on since Matilda.

Theresa should totally stop by again. I remember the one time she posted here (2004? 2005?) after disappearing from WorldCrossing a couple of years earlier, she made just two or three posts, and they were so densely witty and snarkalicious and lovely that everyone else stampeded COMM to save them forever. I think she's the only Phoenix Board Buffista with a 100% post-to-COMM ratio.

Seriously. Thinking of her is almost enough to tempt me to sign up for Facebook (still not enough, but the closest I've ever come to seriously considering it).

I would say more, but the doe-eyed tribble maltiepoo has kilt me ded.

t cheers for Alabama

I am officially moving to a new project on Monday. That's both good and bad, but I will appreciate a shorter commute, and will hopefully be less deadly bored. Or I'll have to pretend to be less bored, since I'll be out in the open.

Crap, ita, that sucks.

I really don't get Tim's list. This is my list of essentials not including everything I wear to work every day, right? Seriously, it reads more like one of those "two weeks in Europe with only a carry-on" lists - not really practical for actual living.

ita, it would need to be a golden root or diamond encrusted or some shit.