Amy, unless there's another author with the same name, my library has a bunch of your books. I thought maybe I should check the next time I went there, but then I realized, Internet, duh. I just did a search.
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The calendar goes straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE.
And everybody born in year 0 never got any birthday presents ever.
ION, Live crab vending machine
his live hairy Shanghai crab vending machine keeps the crabs at 5° C, at which temperature the poor crustaceans go into hibernation. If you give it some money and it dispenses a dead crab, the machine's owner will give you three free live crabs by way of compensation. The machine is in Nanjing, and represents a major push in the always-complex business of live-crab vending.
I just watched one of those Monsters Inside Me programs on Animal Planet, and there was a guy who got a really gross infestation from eating live crabs at a sushi restaurant. So watch out!
Did they at least give him a t-shirt that says, "I caught the crabs at [dining establishment name]"?
That's awesome, Gud! Wow, I had no idea.
Here's hoping many, many more libraries have Cold Kiss next fall.
ION, Live crab vending machine
Wow. We had Shanghai hairy crabs served at our wedding. ("Take a seat, sir, we serve anyone.") They're quite the delicacy, apparently. And they are indeed very hairy.
My library has: Christmas Spirit, Pictures of Us, Hot Date, I Love You to Death, and Murder in the Hamptons.
Whatever you do, don't eat them live and uncooked. According to the program, 80% of Asian freshwater crabs are infected with lung fluke.
Oh, I totally want to live in one of these... or should I wait until I have enough money for a hotel?
My routine with current job is shower 10 min. Lotions and potions for skin stuff 5 min. Minimal makeup 5 min. A little prettier makeup 10-15. Finding and putting on clothes & shoes 5 min.
My routine when I worked at an ad agency client facing. Inspect clothes for any stains (after having spent the better part of an hour picking out and ironing the night before) 5 min. Shower+shave 15 min. Lotions & potions for skin issues 5 min. Blowout hair 20 min. Makeup 15 min. Get dressed 5-10 min depending on dress or separates and jewelry. That's about 70 min, and not going above and beyond.
I suppose I could've skipped the clothes inspection (though I added that to the routine after an embarrassing talking to about a ketchup stain on my sleeve I hadn't seen). Leave out the lotions and potions and deal with acne and dry itchy elbows and knees. Or maybe "gotten a better haircut" though I've yet to find one that doesn't either leave me with weird triangle head or an afro-thus the blowout. Or maybe skipped the makeup, but that's pretty much a no-no and will get you a talking to.
I'm sorry. I do take this personally, because I felt actual anxiety over my appearance at the agency. I would be near tears trying to figure out what outfit walked the fashionable and attractive and not dowdy/slutty. And no, you don't get fired over how you look. It's more that you're not the right "fit." Reading, "Blow it off'" or "Get over yourself," upsets me.
I get that lawyer lady was irritating about it, but I don't know what her sitch is. Maybe if she doesn't curl her lashes they go at wonky angles.