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.

My library has: Christmas Spirit, Pictures of Us, Hot Date, I Love You to Death, and Murder in the Hamptons.

Mine has Christmas Spirit, Hot Date, Room Service, I Love You to Death, Murder in the Hamptons, and Bad Boys of Summer.

Wow. The Brooklyn library has Flirter avec l'amour : roman / Amy _______ ; traduit de l'américain par Agathe Nabet.

We may be even more alone in the universe than we thought

Two scientists propose that the jump from bacteria to complex life might be much riskier than previously imagined. Even on planets with earthlike conditions, plant and animal life would therefore be incredibly rare.

Yeah, I've always wondered about that. Life originated on Earth very quickly (in evolutionary terms)(maybe a few million years?) once the Earth was ready for life, but it took billions of years of more evolution before we got complex, multi-cellular life. So the jump to multi-cellular life may be a much more rare event in the universe when compared to the formation of single-celled life.

After three nights of not sleeping well, I decided to take two ativan last night, so I slept like the dead from a little after 10:00 to a little after 5:00, and then off and on until 6:45. It was AWESOME.

Also, it's Friday!

What are people doing this weekend?