Oh, and I brought in some stuff to the tailor yesterday, to get sleeves and pant legs shortened. (I usually do it myself, but these were complicated, with linings and cuffs and stuff.) He asked me what I do, and I told him, and he said he didn't know that girls could be mathematicians -- he thought it was only guys.

Jingle, Jingle Little Bell
How I wonder how you smell

Now I'm wondering too.

He asked me what I do, and I told him, and he said he didn't know that girls could be mathematicians -- he thought it was only guys.

You should have told him you thought sewing was a woman's job.

You should have told him you thought sewing was a woman's job.

Good one!

You should have told him you thought sewing was a woman's job.

Hil, please tell me you replied with some version of this!

I just rolled my eyes. He was old, and arguing didn't seem worth it.

{{{smonster}}}} Seriously, don't read his emails during the next three day. Set your email to filter anything from him (or his friends) into a folder that you can look at when you are ready and won't see collecting until then. Everyone needs a cooling off period...you already set the parameters, so you get to uphold them.

signed, spent seven months breaking up someone who was waaaaaay to good at guilt trips.

fear my spoiled-rotteness. On top of my father flying across the country and spending two weeeks doing heavy manual labor ripping down wall coverings and installing new flooring....on top of my mother flying across the country to help me pack up a huge apartment and move it all....on top of mom buying me a washing machine and countless constructions materials.....

I am now the exuberant owner of a shiny new imac. Oh yeah, you read that right. my mother bought me a frackin COMPUTER for xmas in addition to the massive spoilery already noted above. It's good beinging an only child of indulgent and aging parents? Apparently she's been feeling guilty for years about steering me towards purchasing the Dell that crapped out in october (a guilt compounded when she herself asquired a macbook two years later, and worsened after Dell repeatedly canceled my orders for replacement hard drives, leaving me computer-less for over a month). So she has assuaged all her totally misplaced maternal guilt by buying me the most shinyily awesome computer i've ever spend merely five minutes setting up. Holy crappola, i spent more than seven HOURS re-setting up the Dell after installing the replacement hard drive and it STILL won't play nice with my wireless router or dvds. But the imac? Straight out of the box, it does everything. I stand amazed. And spoiled. And overwhelmingly in debt to my parents. Again. Forever.

{{{smonster}}}} Seriously, don't read his emails during the next three day. Set your email to filter anything from him (or his friends) into a folder that you can look at when you are ready and won't see collecting until then. Everyone needs a cooling off period...you already set the parameters, so you get to uphold them.

This. Hugs and more hugs, smonster.

And Erin, that's awesome! Don't feel guilty. Many of us are in debt (again, forever) to our loved ones.

Twilight books: these are possibly the silliest books I've ever read, and I cannot put them down.

The place where my tooth had been hasn't been hurting for the past few days, but it's starting to hurt again. Weird. I also have a tiny cut on the tip of my tongue, which is slowly driving me nuts.

I'm trying to figure out Chanukah presents for my family. So far, I haven't come up with much. My mom wants the Susan Boyle CD, so I'm getting her that, plus something else, and I haven't figured out what the something else is. Maybe some Beatles CDs for my dad. No clue what to get for my sister. Everything on her wish list is obviously stuff that she wishes our parents would get her, and it's all several times what I'm planning to spend.