I *need* this dress. [link]

And platform peeptoes to go with it.

perfectly normal-sized.

I tend to think of my rages against the injustices and wrongness of the world as calming events, no?

Something to keep in mind if you're using the office copier:

CBS Report: Copy Machines Retain Copies On Their Hard Drives.

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data...

This past February, CBS News went with Juntunen to a warehouse in New Jersey, one of 25 across the country, to see how hard it would be to buy a used copier loaded with documents. It turns out ... it's pretty easy.

[...] We didn't even have to wait for the first one to warm up. One of the copiers had documents still on the copier glass, from the Buffalo, N.Y., Police Sex Crimes Division.

It took Juntunen just 30 minutes to pull the hard drives out of the copiers. Then, using a forensic software program available for free on the Internet, he ran a scan - downloading tens of thousands of documents in less than 12 hours.

The results were stunning: from the sex crimes unit there were detailed domestic violence complaints and a list of wanted sex offenders. On a second machine from the Buffalo Police Narcotics Unit we found a list of targets in a major drug raid.

The third machine, from a New York construction company, spit out design plans for a building near Ground Zero in Manhattan; 95 pages of pay stubs with names, addresses and social security numbers; and $40,000 in copied checks.

But it wasn't until hitting "print" on the fourth machine - from Affinity Health Plan, a New York insurance company, that we obtained the most disturbing documents: 300 pages of individual medical records. They included everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis. A potentially serious breach of federal privacy law.

Copy Machines Retain Copies On Their Hard Drives.

If your IT department doesn't know this and hasn't taken it into account, they should be fired. It's why we had copiers and fax machines rolled into imaging devices, so the content could be handled according to office regs.

Aims, I swear someone here was buying that dress. Jesse, maybe? If it were in my size, I totally would. It's gorgeous.

The leather pants thing has made me realise I don't dress significantly differently from how I did 20 years ago. And 10 years ago my father opined I didn't dress my age. I hope shaving my head or dyeing my hair blonde distracts from potential mutton dressed as lamb issues, because, really, no intention to alter my wardrobe.

I did! I bought it! And only somewhat regret it....

Also yeah, nothing's more calming than msbelle....

missy, you best not have white-fonted a @@ at the end of that. I will calmly cut you.

Jesse - what did you regret?

Starting in 2014, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage with people with preexisting conditions.

Doesn't help me much right now. the school doesn't have student health insurance, just an on campus clinic for first aid, shots and such. My biggest concern is Mental Health services. I haven't explored what's available here yet, because I was putting it off hoping to get the job with the insurance...

My psychiatrist back in KC has been kind enough to keep writing me prescriptions but can't keep it up forever and may no be able to after the insurance runs out. le sigh.

I would never roll my eyes at you, msbelle! I'm too scared.

Jesse - what did you regret?

It's very girlish in a way that makes me a afraid I'll never actually wear it.