Perkins recommended a great leather Wilson's small leather backpack that's just big enough to hold my tablet, my Nook, my phone, my iPod, etc, without looking crazy teched out. In the trial and error of looking for the perfect black leather backpack I ended up with a much bigger one which is big enough for at least a sketchbook, maybe even Macbook in a sleeve, and apparently is fetch enough that one of the portacath doctors (male) wanted to know what brand it was. Huh? Overstock.com, dude. I have no other details.

I could be wearing a better bra today. I couldn't find my best-fitting under-white bra, and I thought I'd be wearing the white turtleneck, but it's much too transparent (crazy--who can wear that?), and I didn't bother change into the good black bra before I put on the midnight blue shirt.

Well, my frenemy lunch date will just have to be disappointed.

Hey, Perkins, Ginger, will I ever carry a bag on my portacath shoulder again? And do they always put them on the right? The surgeon never considered my left side, and I'd much have preferred it there, usage wise.

But purses are important! they're with you pretty much all the time, and you carry IMPORTANT things in them! (like books; and makeup; and, oh yeah ... money!)

note on my perpetual to-do list (sort of the intermediate-term to-do list, unlike the short-term, which has things like "PAY INSURANCE BILL," or the long-term, which has things like "New car???") that says "You need bras -- GET THEM."

This sounds a lot like my to-do lists: "Pay bills" "Call Doctor" "Tattoo?" "Christmas travel?"

My purse right now is year-round (even though I do switch it out in the summer for a straw one), Target pleather, sort of a mustardy color which goes with everything. It's just big enough for a book as well as makeup stuff, wallet, phone, cigarettes, a small notebook, with room to spare. And yet ... I want a new one. What shoes are some to people, purses are to me.

And do they always put them on the right? The surgeon never considered my left side, and I'd much have preferred it there, usage wise.

There might be some kind of vein differential there. Like when you're pregnant you're only supposed to lie on one side (I can't remember which one now) because if you lie on the other you compress some vein or something.

I have a nice, classic Coach bag. It's black leather and I got it off Etsy for less than $40.

how to convince skeptics? ego-stroking.

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There might be some kind of vein differential there

I looked it up on google body, and they both looked pretty similar, but I guess one's closer to the heart, and maybe they don't want to be that plugged in.

I own one Coach bag. I spend money on some random shit, but that was my most blatant display of excess. It's a tiny bag (and now that I think about it, maybe that's where my last Clinique Black Honey is--how can I be totally out?) of pewter silk with rhinestones that cost $400 in gift certificates. I wanted to be sure to use those certs on something I'd never do in real life with real money. It goes with most of my evening wear, and I love it to pieces. Just big enough to hold a phone, a lipstick, a hotel keycard, some money, and maybe a camera.

My favorite evening bag didn't really go with everything -- it was pink satin, and beaded -- but it was ADORABLE. And then I let Sara play with it, and a pen exploded all over it shortly after. That learned me.

I took sinus meds with Tylenol *and* three ibuprofen and my head still feels like someone attached a tight metal cap to it. I'm so sick of my sinuses, I could scream.

My sister and I are both talking about getting our first tattoos.

I covet a tan leather coach briefcase from the 70's. Even though now it is vaguely hipsterish. Weirdly, some of the hipsterish looking fashion is stuff I have liked for a really long time, so I have a hard time disliking it. But it means that sometimes I look like an aging hipster.