Cause that's what my Master's project was about, and I had zero luck with it.

I had forgotten your topic! Sorry to hear it didn't pan out the way you wanted.

I have had the phrase "degrade gracefully" stuck in my head since yesterday, and I've now worked out both why (my eye makeup degrades gracefully--crying doesn't mess it up, or at least does it with symmetry), and where it's from (HTML). Being a geek can be hard.

Shrift, which space is that show in? Is it the one straight ahead from the lobby doors?

Yep. At least, it was at the press opening.

(my eye makeup degrades gracefully--crying doesn't mess it up, or at least does it with symmetry)

Are you using the blinc Kiss Me mascara? I love that stuff!!!

Are you using the blinc Kiss Me mascara? I love that stuff!!!

Now that I don't rub so it gets in my eyes, I love it too. My eye makeup is mostly invisible (shading to make my eyes look deeper), so it falls apart quite neatly.

Okay--remember that hour at a time thing? First hour is over and done with. ::muted booyah!::

Go ita! on the non-head-pain thing.

I almost don't want to say anything out of fear of jinxing it....

"degrade gracefully"

I've been looking for that phrase! I meant to file it next to "planned obsolescence" but couldn't remember the "degrade" part. Thank you!

It needs to be lunchtime sooner.

It needs to be hometime sooner.

Now I need to stay on top of the head pain. Often I don't realise it until it's so full blown that the pills I have at home aren't useful.

Emily, I love that phrase. I need to slip it into more conversations. I did slip it into a krav class once, and everyone thought I was nuts.

But I am!

Tom--thanks for that link. Agriculture and politics continue to surprise me. I think I got the beet is king idea from something like that--that the US didn't import cane sugar, instead importing beet sugar. Which is not the point, even if it's one of the after-effects.

Then again, enough of my ancestors worked in cane fields (can't stand the stuff myself--the smell/taste of everything from the growing plant through the cut plant all the way to wet sugar nauseates me) that my perspective has odd holes in it.

Um, isn't Natter whitefont for current seasons?

Oops! Sorry! I’m sorry if I spoiled anyone, I hate being spoiled. Twenty lashes with a wet noodle!

bon, have you watched Damages at all? Sparky? Lee? Vortex? They're spending a lot of slow time inside a law firm, and I was wondering how they were handling it. Of course, if you cast Glenn Close you're hardly going to be spending time with fuzzy humanitarianism, but even as an outlier...

I have. I like it, but not enough to keep up with it. When I had 5 eps on the Tivo and no cable, and still didn’t watch it, I knew it was a goner.

Often I don't realise it until it's so full blown that the pills I have at home aren't useful.

My boss was like that. She wouldn’t realize what was happening, but I would notice that she looked tired, and that she was reacting to light and tell her to take an imitrex. she often wouldn't, and then I'd have to follow her home because I was worried that she wouldn't be able to make the drive.