I learned oleo from my g'ma, but only in the context of crosswords. You have to know it for them!

Of course, that is what I was going to say. (Olio = mixture of things.)

Speaking of crosswords, that Tyler Hinman is such a tool. He had a puzzle in the Times last week, and the grid was his initials. @@

Also, when we had jeans day last week, we all called them dungarees for two days non-stop.

Way to model a skirt in the most unflattering way possible.

Dude. I don't imagine the skirt flatters most women anyway, and that picture's not creating any illusions.

I guess I've thought "Oh, I suppose summer clothes are in the stores now," but nothing as deliberate as how she stated wardrobe. And now that I think it out, she wasn't buying a summer wardrobe, because the timing's all wrong for that.

Two of my obi belts are more than a year old, I was just never sure how to wear them, although I was sure that I wanted to. It wasn't until I bought the third that I actually gave the originals a shot. And then I started trawling etsy for more...I adore the wide belt, and the wide/narrow thing rocks even more.

Two of my obi belts are more than a year old, I was just never sure how to wear them, although I was sure that I wanted to. It wasn't until I bought the third that I actually gave the originals a shot. And then I started trawling etsy for more...I adore the wide belt, and the wide/narrow thing rocks even more.

Are they boned in any way-- or is the fabric heavy. The one pictures looks a little like it would flop down over the ribbon on some people if not tied tight enough-- it looks like it is just satin.

I bough a lot for this summer because I have had the same t-shirts and skirts for approximately 4 years, and the t's were getting very stained. They had a sale on wrap dresses at www.alight.com. and they are just my style, so I bought 4 and 5 camisoles to go under them. That is the most I have bought in years for a season, though.

I learned oleo from my g'ma, but only in the context of crosswords. You have to know it for them!

I learned oleo by doing crosswords too.

I tend to buy clothes a bit randomly but I think what would suit me best is to buy one or two new pieces a couple of times a year.

Speaking of Facebook-- I think my gaydar is broken. I keep assuming a lot of theatre students are gay, and then am so surprised when they have a girlfriend/boyfriend. Seriously, though, there are these two really adorable theatre boys who have become really close friends. They live with each other. They totally do everything together, and their body language just screams boyfriend to me. When they started off, one of them was really preppy and one of them was a girls jeans wearin guy, but now they dress alike Even the way they talk about each other "Oh, I can't smoke because D. doesn't like it when I do"-- just seems realtionshippy.

But I just saw on facebook that one of them has all these pictures with his girlfriend.

I feel old and broken, because what is a fat theatre chick to do without the ability to spot/befriend gayboys!

For summer wardrobe - I tend to buy things that work for me when I find them; since I don't usually follow trends, they'll last for several years (and, if anyone wanted a summer wardrobe purchased from the department store, they'd have had to go looking in, oh, February or so).

There's a cute, cute, cute summer dress at Target that tempts me. I am going to check eBay for cheaper ones, first, though.

[link] Croquet + Lillian.

Facebook is kinda strange because it's the one place on the internet where all my interests and connections collide. I'm friends with people from here, a broad assortment of writers, people from my church, coworkers, college friends, one high school friend, my two 20-something nieces...and in some ways I'm a different person in each of those groups. Not that I'm lying or putting on different personalities; I just show different facets of my personality depending on what's interesting, appropriate, and relevant for each group. So there's a certain Worlds Colliding aspect to it.

I like that I now have people coming up to me at church to congratulate me on my PNWA contest final and ask me how the book is going, though.

So who posted the article on oxytocin? I find the connection between oxytocin and parental bonding very interesting, but that article leaves me with many moments of WFT, esp:

The potential uses of oxytocin offer commercial possibilities well beyond individual patients too. Restaurants, for instance, could spray a thin mist over customers to put them at ease.

Commercial use? Really? You want to use oxytocin to increase consumer spending? Is that really what's wrong with Americans today--we don't go out to dinner enough?

It could be used as a benign form of tear gas, quelling any violent feelings among groups of demonstrators, or, building on the Atlanta research, even to prevent extramarital affairs.

Yeah, now both of those are a bit off to me, but I'm wondering with the second use--how does that one work? "Hey doc, I've been seeing someone on the side." "Really? Hold on, let me write you a Rx on that." "Viagra?" "Well... not exactly..."

Why don't they just pump Ecstasy into the air vents at work, so we can all love our bosses?