I also have a deep fear that my expanded ass won't fit in the tiny JetBlue seat and they'll throw me off the plane.

I dunno, my ass is pretty big (as is the rest of me) and JetBlue's seats were verrrra comfy. I think you can scratch that anxiety off your list.

Sophia, what about larger sizes of the Gap or Old Navy, or are they too casual? My work is so casual, I'm losing sense of what's appropriate for work.

Sizing is so wackadoo and changes from item to item that I could never say that one store has shirts that fit me consistently. Old Navy sometimes does, the Gap sometimes does, Ann Taylor Loft sometimes does. But sometimes they don't.

Thanks Flea, Sue and Lisa! I hate being a size 16 (or 18)- nothing from anywhere fits right!

I think I could probably do the Gap- although the LL bean ones are nicer. I wear them with skirts, so I can be a little more casual than if I wore them with pants. I just want them not to be baggy, because I have large breasts and a small waist, and I don't like things that hang from the breast area, which the plus sizes do on me.

Obviously not fucking enough, or you'd be more eager for morning.

this is interesting out of context.

Street. Legal. LIGHTCYCLE.

Somebody please buy me this, thanks.

That's awesome!

oh, I like it. I'm holding out for The Dark Knight batcycle. though. That one still holds my heart.

If it can't do a sharp 90° turn, it's not a real lightcycle.

Whew! I got away with what I shouldn't have gotten away with. Jury duty is not only deferred until MAY SECOND, but they will resend me all the documentation. The date is now entered in my personal calendar with a two day alarm, not a ten minute one, and it's in my work calendar too.

All I have to do is not throw away the paperwork when I get it. Should be simple enough, right?

I would like to have a sharp word with some people:

• anyone who's ever bought anything in response to a spam email. Because it must be remotely effective for them to keep spamming me
• TiVo for getting hacked. I'm assuming that's why I've had such a marked uptick in spam recently
• People who don't change lanes until 15ft before they have to exit. You're really irritating.
• Me, for my lack of a filing system.

Back from the mountains, where there were ridiculous amounts of snow. Driving down the lane to our ski lodge was like being in a tunnel because there were ten-to-twelve-foot walls of snow on each side.

ION, I wore new shoes today. They were hella comfy at Nordstrom's Rack when I tried them on--they're Born flats, quite nice. But in the half-mile walk from my gym to the office I got three bloody blisters on my feet (two on the heels, one on the spot just under my ankle bone where the lip of the shoe rubbed). OW.

So, hivemind: share me your stories of how to make shoes not hurt?

(And now I'm barefoot at my desk and very grateful I have sneakers in my gym bag...)