The red one I got, medium, is a little looser through the bust than I would like, but looks great.

So, what kind of red is it? More orange, or blue?

Don't want to work. Want to stay home and write.

Actual conversation I had yesterday reminded me of ita's weird krav conversations:

Me: Well, you're a little prudish.

Him: You know, if you knew me better, you wouldn't say that (wicked grin).

Me:So I'm going to get you a crop for xmas?

Him: (puzzled) Um, I've never tended to one...

Me: No, sweetie, a riding crop.

Him: Like for horses?

Me: You use it to spank horses. I'm renewing my assertion that you're a little prudish.

Him: Point taken.

So am I the only one who likes the Trixie dress?

I'm hoping to love mine but I haven't gotten it yet.

I did, however, get new camera batteries and was able to post my Vegas pictures. There are a million of them.

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Have people seen this? Stuff Educated Black People Like

sara, I almost called you last night because I was worried about you and your day. Maybe today will be a better day to call?

Aww. Actually, I spent (until I got online) wrestling with the computer so was probably unfit for human consumption except where I had an editor. It's just work, which won't kill me but I've gotta find a new zen. I had a zen with the way-things-were. Need to find it for way-things-are now.

I really need to take a day off.

Is it OK that I'm willing to settle (um, for you, so who am I to even have an opinion, not being you, but still) for a good-today-for-you? Not just better than yesterday, mind you. All-the-way good.

lisa, you [Edit: both singular as well as plural] look both pretty and fun-having. Yay!

Don't want to work. Want to stay home and write.

Allyson is me. In the last week I've gone from being stuck and having to force myself to meet my daily page quota to having three scenes begging me to write them all at once. I need Hermione's time-turner, anything to extend that one measly hour to hour-and-a-half I have to write every night.

Thanks. I'd be happy to take one!

Craigslist ad: HENCHMEN NEEDED (London, but planned worldwide expansion)

20-30 henchmen needed for moderately-sized supervillain organisation with large expansion potential (fortresses built into geological structures, corruption of government officials, possible genesis of 'nemesis' vigilante). Electrical theme.

Applicants must be willing to learn new skills, including but not limited to operation of specialised 'lightning guns'. Applicants will also be required to wear specialised uniform when at work (functional rubber suits with my logo on front), except in cases where deception is required (posing as hostages in order to ambush vigilantes, etc).

"You've ruined everything that matters to me, so I only do my best to return the favor." (plural you)

That’s a lot of idioms! It would be helpful to know the exact nuance of “ruin” that you are going for. Otherwise, the closest I can come up with is:

"Vous avez ruiné tout ce qui m’est cher, alors je ferai de mon mieux pour vous le revaloir." (revaloir=to pay back)

"Ruined" in the sense of "taken everything away," I guess. The speaker spent years pulling himself up from relative poverty to a position of wealth and influence, but now all that's gone and he's a wanted fugitive trying to survive on the run. Oh, and his country has been overrun by its oldest enemy and is under martial law, which he's patriotic enough to consider worse than anything that's happened to him personally.