Saw that; yay! Also saw her new cute hair.

ION, I splurged tonight. I have been dry like a dry thing; I think, as good as the HRT keeps my moods and such, I am definitely drier skinned than I was with my ovaries.

Got the Night-A-Mins nighttime moisturizer, because they've upped the hydration quotitient in it, and I remember using it back in the day, and I used it religiously, simply because it smelled and felt so damned good. I use Olay supercharged stuff in the daytime, because of SPF. But I get so lazy about doing nighttime stuff, and I figured I would bribe myself into doing it, if I loved the stuff.

I also got the Ginger body scrub, the Spreadable kind. I've used their Salt Scrub in the past, and this is still nice and gritty, but the particles are less harsh, but it's still nice and oily. Some people don't like that, but I do, as I am lazy, and I don't want to have put on another full body layer after I've sloughed all my real estate.

OMG, it smells SO DAMNED GOOD. And I am very smooth. Yay.

So, win.

My advisor's comment yesterday: "If you show up at the interview with that cane, they'll definitely hire you, because they'll be scared that you'll sue if they don't." Argh.

Another month and a half until my dissertation defense. I can do this.

Did you beat him to death with your cane? Good lord.

Did you beat him to death with your cane? Good lord.

I'd be tempted to document this and file a complaint after everything is over. But I'm evil that way.

Either my sense of evil needs to be recalibrated, or that's not evil.

Oh jeebus. Whatever it is that's been wreaking havoc with my sinuses the last few days has moved its way into the rest of my body. I have got the worst cramps and chills and I've been so freakin' sick for the last few hours. SO do not want.

On a philosophical level, I'm all in favor of the natural evolution of language. But in practice, when the natural evolution of language is towards sloppier and less precise speech IT MAKES ME CRAZY WITH THE WRONGNESS.

yes, this.

I also got the Ginger body scrub, the Spreadable kind.

ooh, what brand is this, I need to exfoliate my legs like whoa.

I think "fetish" has come to be used in the same way that "kink" is.

Could be, and could be that BDSM/other communities of human-activity-extra-ordinarium are defining for the mundanes what will be considered as "normal" or "not-normal" 20 years from now. I kindda think the same process is taking place in other places, as well, since these are high, sensitive times for Western culture.

For those not on Facebook, Fay posted there about an hour ago. So, I'll take that as good news.

Thank you. Continued health and safe~ma for all Buffistas.

Continued ~ma for Fay.

IMeN, someone please put me out of my misery now, please? I've got nothing left in me to give.

On a philosophical level, I'm all in favor of the natural evolution of language. But in practice, when the natural evolution of language is towards sloppier and less precise speech IT MAKES ME CRAZY WITH THE WRONGNESS.

Language tends to move in two different ways. A word takes a broader, more general meaning (cf., "fetish). Or a word takes on a more specific, narrower meaning. (Uh, cf., "soda" which used to be bicarbonate soda in all its forms and now means a bubbly soft drink.) It's just expanding (usually through some kind of metonymy where the particular represents the whole.) or contracting. I don't think of that as sloppiness.

I tend to be wary about talking about fetishism because people use the word sloppily. (See what I did there, Jess?) It's unpleasant banging up against other people's ill-formed notions of what that might mean, especially with something as intimate as sexuality. But my sexuality is bent off at an odd angle to societal norms. It has a kink in it, like a bent wire that is not properly grounded and is forming a circuit in an unintended way.

Certainly my bent was shaped by societal norms and cultural expectations but it was internalized. So my true north is not about my relationship to the baseline. I have a wacky compass.

And it's different from preferring brainy Jewish guys or scraped knuckles or an illiac crest. Magnetic North is always going to pull the needle in one direction for me. I can still go North by Northwest but I'm always aware of what my North is. It is not about a preference among a variety of choices. It is more the way my choices are made.