You guys talk a lot. It's nice.

Re: exercise - I'm in favor of dance, myself. I have to work around a limitation there, because one of my vertebrae is fused to my pelvis. Makes hip rotation a challenge and isolation nearly impossible (which is why I haven't tried bellydance).

Also gothy types have you seen this etsy shop? Dreadful Things by Raven

So excellent. (Though no totems to my personal taste. I prefer ankhs to crosses and moths or scarabs to spiders.)

a lovely black pinstripe corset. Want.

ditaboo landed on my head this morning.

Ah, but was there blood?

So a moving nightmare woke me up. Dudes, that was 6 months ago! I'm done! No more moving anxiety to be had already!

Kat, I love that shop. Every once in a while something in my size is in stock, and then I remind myself that I already have a very fine corset. Then I tell myself, "But that one is green..."

Next purchase of flamboyance: tophat from Gentleman's Emporium. (I will feel much more comfortable wearing that around campus than a crown or wings. The wings would be hard to sit on the bus with, and I only like to wear a crown when I'm feeling especially regal. But I do have a wide selection of crowns from which to choose.)

Ah, but was there blood?

Not yet.

Okay, I *do* want a semi-colon. Seriously. But not very big, and I don't know where I want it.

You could have the dot on one finger and the comma on the next, giving you the ability to render the appropriate punctuation for the situation at hand.

You could have the dot on one finger and the comma on the next, giving you the ability to render the appropriate punctuation for the situation at hand.

If you put commas on fingers on both hands, and then you could make air quotes with style.

If you put commas on fingers on both hands, and then you could make air quotes with style.

Hee! I love this idea.

You could have the dot on one finger and the comma on the next, giving you the ability to render the appropriate punctuation for the situation at hand.

One of the pitchers for the A's, Dallas Braden, has a moustahe tattooed on one finger so he can hold it under his nose for an instant 'stache.

Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

The study, authored by psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, showed that people in a negative mood were more critical of, and paid more attention to, their surroundings than happier people, who were more likely to believe anything they were told.

"Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, cooperation, and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking paying greater attention to the external world," Forgas wrote.

"Our research suggests that sadness ... promotes information processing strategies best suited to dealing with more demanding situations."