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?

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..."

I'm thinking it's more "hey, doc, I'm worried that my spouse is looking around... do have anything I can surreptitiously spray on his/her food so I don't have to go to all the trouble of talking about our issues?"

It could be used as a benign form of tear gas, quelling any violent feelings among groups of demonstrators

Having just been to a Serenity screening. No. Or rather, HELL NO!

Hey Susan, speaking of Facebook, I think one of your friends wants to friend me, but I'm not in the habit of friending strangers. But her name is I think Keira something? Does that ring a bell?

Good gracious-- Lillian is almost unbearably cute!

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.

Doesn't this sound a little bit like what happened on Miranda in Serenity the movie?

Ha! Serenity x-post with Sophia!