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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.


Kat - Oct 02, 2007 9:49:09 am PDT #4456 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I pull out clothes for Noah the night before (because mornings are a mad scramble against the clock) but I rarely get around to pulling stuff out for me. I'm weather dependent.


SuziQ - Oct 02, 2007 9:49:46 am PDT #4457 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I normally get dressed in the dark, trying to make choices based on the expected temp in the office, not the actual weather (stooopid office). Packing for the next three days - I think I have 5 or 6 outfits cause who knows what I'm going to be in the mood to wear and if I go into our Sacramento office, they are dressy. I'm used to wearing jeans to work. Not that I do every day, but I can when I want.


askye - Oct 02, 2007 9:54:08 am PDT #4458 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I try to figure out if I have clean clothes the night before, and sometimes end up doing a late night load of laundry. On Tuesdays I wear something comfy becuase of class (although today I'm wearing very uncomfortable underwear and it's making the day seem slower). I usually iron in the mornings because I procrastinate.


Glamcookie - Oct 02, 2007 9:54:57 am PDT #4459 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I wear jeans every day and grab what strikes me in the morning in terms of tops and shoes. IOClothesN, my bluefly package just arrived! I want to try it on now!!!


-t - Oct 02, 2007 10:03:36 am PDT #4460 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Deciding what to wear every day is a major hurdle for me. If I can decide in advance, I do - I've known what I would wear today all week, as I got some new pants that I know what shirt will go with. That's the best part of not working - on the days when I look at the closet and want to cry because there's nothing in there that fits or goes with anything else or is appropriate to what I have planned, I can just stay in my robe another hour, or throw on sweatpants or a caftan or something that signifies I don't care what I look like. It's comforting.


Aims - Oct 02, 2007 10:05:49 am PDT #4461 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I found it much easier to dress in the mornings when I had to wear suits every day.


Kat - Oct 02, 2007 10:16:00 am PDT #4462 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

There are such things as dumb questions and here is one!

I am trying to figure out the naming conventions of quarterback, halfback (tailback), fullback....obviously they are named as such because they are in the backfield. But why the fractional names?


§ ita § - Oct 02, 2007 10:19:04 am PDT #4463 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm having a vague memory of field hockey position names being tied to the starting position on the field, but American football is the game of the devil, so who knows?


Jesse - Oct 02, 2007 10:25:27 am PDT #4464 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wikipedia includes this tidbit:

In the early part of the 20th century, when most teams employed the 2-3-5 formation, the row of three players were called halfbacks.

So, in soccer, the halfback is halfway back on the field and the fullbacks are all the way back? And I don't know where a quarterback would start, but if it's a little back from the centerfield line, that would make logical sense?


Sue - Oct 02, 2007 10:26:43 am PDT #4465 of 10001
hip deep in pie

The wikipedia entry on Quarterback says this on the origin of the term.

The term quarterback has its origin in Scottish Rugby, wherein backfield players, according to their customary distance behind the forwards, were designated "quarter back" (i.e. ¼ of the way back), "halfback", and "fullback".[citation needed] Eventually in rugby the English-Irish nomenclature prevailed, with halfback, three-quarters back, and fullback; in some places, notably New Zealand, the term "five-eighths back" is used as well.