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?

Life-size monopoly house

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.

Oh, I totally want to live in one of these... or should I wait until I have enough money for a hotel?

If there's no way to get the windows open, that would be a dealbreaker.

Maybe if she doesn't curl her lashes they go at wonky angles.

I got the idea (just from reading her list here) that maybe she doesn't actually curl her lashes and just assumes it would be a huge, injury-causing thing because of the way the device looks? Or she was just exaggerating for affect? Because, although I don't curl mine on a daily basis, I do sometimes and it's really a couple-second long procedure. And I am TOTALLY un-co!

Speaking of lotions, I need my makeup lady to get my moisturizer in! I've been wearing a back up moisturizer and it sucks. My face feels totally tight and weird!

15 hottest geek guy costumes. [link] No Mal, but I love the Spike Spiegel.

I have realised that in just about every dream I had last night someone died. Most of them were me in a TV show, so it was sad, and I was kind of distanced. But one was "real life" and a Buffista died. And in all of them I was the one that discovered the death and had to notify people. And the dreams kept restarting, and each time they restarted I knew ahead of time who would die, but I couldn't say anything before the death was discovered again.

Needless to say, not relaxing.

Oh, I totally want to live in one of these... or should I wait until I have enough money for a hotel?

In Monopoly, I always bought all the utilities and went bankrupt, which is already eerily similar to my real life.