10 LEGS.

Creeps me right out. Then I went to the food place, but still distant.

My first foray into the homemade Grey Goose gimlet, straight up is pretty successful. A bit more agave next time.

Watching this week's Tim Gunn is interesting because they're dealing with a woman who hasn't stated any body image issues and who has put thought into her wardrobe, and likes it.

Don't make no difference to Tim.

Don't make no difference to Tim.

And they made her look like a 45-year-old returning from her Junior League meeting.

Some people are idiots, and should not be put in charge of anything.

According to the local chain paper, the school started out by banning all school bags. This decision, they said, was supposedly partly to protect students from the burden of carrying heavy bags (because, I guess, carrying stacks of books bound with twine is ergonomically better for them). And it was to prevent the possibility of students carrying concealed weapons. The paper doesn't mention what seem to be the obvious additional reasons for this decision: the school administrators aren't too bright, they can't be trusted with authority and they don't like students.

The principal's name, by the way, is "Worden." He seems to be mistaking this for his job description.

School officials quickly realized that banning backpacks and purses left female students with no way to carry pads or tampons, so Worden and his clown show amended the policy (or at least that's the rumor -- these folks aren't very good at communicating clearly). Female students would be allowed to carry bags, but only during their periods -- meaning that every female student carrying a bag would be subject to questioning about whether or not that was the case. And, of course, school officials would need to keep track of who was carrying a purse and when, just to make sure that no one was trying to exploit this "privilege."

Mortified yet? The students are. And, God bless 'em, they're fighting back. I can't help but quote the same two paragraphs from the article that Amanda did:

The small Sullivan County school has been in an uproar for the last week. Girls have worn tampons on their clothes in protest, and purses made out of tampon boxes. Some boys wore maxi-pads stuck to their shirts in support.

After hearing that someone might have been suspended for the protest, freshman Hannah Lindquist, 14, went to talk to Worden. She wore her protest necklace, an OB tampon box on a piece of yarn. She said Worden confiscated it, talked to her about the code of conduct and the backpack rule — and told her she was now "part of the problem."

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they made her look like a 45-year-old returning from her Junior League meeting

Oh, yes. Her new hair is frumpy, and that work outfit--much older than 31. I shudder to think what Tim would make of my closet. If that's how 31 year olds are to dress, I'm worse than lamb faking mutton.

I didn't like the dress she picked for the wedding either. Too close to white, for my eye, and boxy. Didn't show off anything about her body. The last designed one she tried on...well, whichever had soft pink and the v-neck--that one said hot wedding guest to me.

The last designed one she tried on...well, whichever had soft pink and the v-neck--that one said hot wedding guest to me.

She looked fab in that one.

According to the Wikipedia entry, coconut crabs are a delicacy. You probably need a really REALLY big pot to boil them in, though, and an industrial strength lid to keep them in it....

I just came home to my own "some people are idiots" story. One of the people who live on the first floor od my building likes to let her cat out to walk around the apartment complex, which would be fine, except we have one or two feral cats around, which would still be fine, except she and her mother in law decided to see if the feral and her cat would get along. Luckily I came walking up from the garage just then, and I was carrying a grocery bag I used to divert the feral who was chasing the other cat.

I then had to stop the MIL from trying to pet the feral cat, even though every single piece of fur along its back was standing straight up and it was hissing at all of us.

It's a good thing for her I'm nice, or at least that I don't like the sight of blood.

Did a little bit of work. Not sure why.

Finally one link of ita's that didn't freak me the fuck out. But only because I've seen pictures of coconut crabs before when I worked for The Nature Conservancy. TNC administered the island of Palmyra and I saw lots of pictures of them when we bought the island.

There was some show on National Geographic channel I think about Palmyra and other islands like it, I forget the name, but it featured the coconut crabs.