Yes, PC.

Wonder Woman with a Joan Jett shag just seems so right.

And their universities "top up" the mat/pat leave so they're at like 95% salary for that time. Very civilized.

Is part of that civilization having some kind of loyalty to the employer as well? Because, while I think that the US can be truly awful for leaves of any kinds and taking care of actual people, USians also tend to ignore that real people own companies and employees who are there for the benefits and then leave are also problematic. Basically that they feed each other in a bad way.

I am pretty socialist when it comes to taking care of people and I really think that spreading the benefits and the pain (like insurance) works. Barring global care, I think that countries should do it. And that they benefit from this by having a healthier population.

That is pretty seriously awesome.

Wonder Woman with a Joan Jett shag, I mean. Canadian maternity leave is also awesome, but in a completely different way.

My current haircut is leaning Joan Jett shag itself. It's supposed to look like this but it never quite gets there. Plus then I put on glasses and don't have that awesome dress.

It's supposed to look like this but it never quite gets there.

That's a lot of layers. It's funny how certain hairstyling techniques are perfected and abandoned in each decade. Finger waves in the thirties, pin curls in the fifties, bouffant hairstyling in the sixties. Anyway, seventies hairstyles are all about layers and nowadays people just don't cut them as precisely and with such fine gradations. It's all about razor cutting, and that's a different technique and a different look.

To do that kind of proper layering you have to take almost quarter-inch sections. Nowadays you're lucky if they take one inch sections.

Yeah, I have my awesome buddy back in Indianapolis, and much like how I never quit going to my Indianapolis optometrist, I'm going to carry the picture to him and see if he can get there. He's so great. I used to just let him do whatever with my hair and it always looked amazing. No stylist has ever lived up to that since then.

Cass, in my cousin's case, they're both tenured, so they ain't going nowheres!

Hey, it's JUNE!? How did that happen?

Anybody heard from Typo?

Oh, maternity leave . . . My employer's health insurance does not cover birth control, they do not give any maternity leave, they dictate that if you deliver vaginally you must take off 8 weeks, and if by C-section you must take off 10 weeks, and they limit the amount of sick leave you are allowed to use for that 8/10 weeks to 6. (and! and! our vacation leave is use it or lose it, so it can't be saved up for these purposes)

t Sneaking in

Um, remember me? Well, this is what I've been doing instead of even skipping, let alone skimming:

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(You guys are so much on my mind, and I hate it that I don't manage to find the time to stay properly in touch, to both share your lives as well as my own. Goodness, I even missed practically two whole months of birthdays, and more than 10,000 posts in Natter alone! But even when not in my font, you're always on my mind.)

(Oh, and sorry that the captions are all Hebrew - if I manage to find the time, I'll translate. Thankfully, the pictures don't need any translation. Oh, and the two-before-last is a video, not a single picture.)

Aw, Nilly! He's wonderful and so so expressive! Yay baby!