Verdana? You mean, like, in huge letters on the front of their stores? Really?

Ginger, I was in McGill too, from sophomore year on. Back in the dark ages, when we were learning to program in COBOL with punchcards.

An exact replica of the Parthenon! So what if it's concrete, people! It's awesome! When they first started sculpting Athena in place, my friend and I went and ate olives on the steps. We wanted to sacrifice a goat, but there were these "rules"...

Where in East Nashville? I lived in Donelson for many years after college.

Ooh. Verdana is bad. That is not particularly clever of Ikea.

Hello! I am back from festival. I leave for Spain (well, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands - technically Spain) tomorrow afternoon. The weather there is 27 C. That's 'quite hot enough for this particular little pale Irish flower' in non-metric. Oh, and The Girl is coming with us! It's all so exciting. I bought sunscreen. I am going to stop spewing rubbish onto the screen now. Thank you.

How's everyone here?

Hil, Trader Joe's makes a deodorant with cotton in it, that really helps with absorbency. I use it on days when I know I'm not going to be doing anything sweaty. It also contains witch hazel, aloe, comfrey, and lavender. But it doesn't smell like lavender, or anything in particular.

Verdana? You mean, like, in huge letters on the front of their stores? Really?

In their catalogs as well as online material. Verdana is not meant for print, damn it.

I guess it could be worse -- it could be Comic Sans.

Ginger, you went to Vanderbilt? Me too! Oh, the Parthenon. I must go see it again, now that work on Athena is finished.

Lewis did too!

As far as looks I love for myself, I'm a gown whore. I'd love to walk a red carpet like once every couple of weeks so I could wear gowns and beautiful shoes and spectacular jewelry.

This is one of my favorite pictures of myself.

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I guess it could be worse -- it could be Comic Sans

This was my exact reaction.

I guess it could be worse -- it could be Comic Sans.

When I was teaching a lot of students with learning difficulties, we surveyed them to find out which font they liked best. Guess which one came out tops? Comic Sans became our house style, and I gagged every time I had to type in it.

I'm in favour of readable fonts, being dyslexic, but Ariel etc is fine...

Barb, that dress is stunning, and you look fabulous in it!

I heard of an office once that rebelled against "casual Friday" and instituted "formal Friday". Men would wear tuxedoes, women would wear gowns and tiaras.

Your family's in Jackson, ChiKat? My grandmother was born and raised there, as was a college friend.

They're actually about 30 miles south of Jackson in a tiny town, Bolivar. My dad is in a nursing home there and my mom lives at home in an even tinier town outside of Bolivar, Saulsbury.

I heard of an office once that rebelled against "casual Friday" and instituted "formal Friday". Men would wear tuxedoes, women would wear gowns and tiaras.

That's kind of fabulous, but unless you wear the same gown every week, it could get expensive. I also don't know how comfy I would be working all day in a gown. I have worn a tiara all day at work and know that's perfectly doable.

ChiKat, yeah, the article didn't mention how the girls afforded the finery! I think a gown would be totally comfortable all day, providing you had on comfortable underthings. And providing you weren't too troubled about the chance of, say, dropping mustard on it.