Amy, I will try to remember that and not send you things.

me too, although I just did.

See above, msbelle!

The temperature dropped about fifteen degrees since yesterday. I need a sweatshirt. I guess fall was listening to me.

And Cash, I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. But I'm glad your parents have someone who can deal with it. Living with someone who's willing to attack you is scary.

God, yes. I hope this situation can get sorted out quickly.

amyth, that would have been great news! if you had spoken of it, which you didn't.

Last-appointment high-five, Perkins!

Liese, yikes, glad your SO is all right!

My name is right there in my signature in my work email, and yet, people come back misspelling it or calling me nicknames. It annoys me deeply when people-not-friends decide to call me by a nickname. I'm not Beth, or Lisa. I'm only Liz to my friends. If we've slept together more than twice and I still like you, you may call me Lizzie.

I spent the better part of a year of Junior High trying to transition to my middle name. It didn't take.

I did that when I went to my first Sci-Fi convention, at age 16, where I met my BFF Gretchen. So everyone in the SF community in Nashville called me Elizabeth, which made it quite easy to transition to that name completely when I went to college in Nashville.

Working from home, every day is Take Your Cat to Work Day! It's also Shut Up and Let Me Work, Cat, You've Already Been Fed Day.

My mom loved Sarah's Key, too, megan. Another one she keeps bugging me to read.

Well, it goes fast, despite the subject matter. And I liked it, despite its Oprah's Book Club qualities. Plus, it's coming soon to a theater near you. Really, it's like The Help in so many ways.

If you're working from home, isn't it more like take your work to your cat day?

I transitioned to my middle name when I started college. The complete break made it fairly easy to get people to call me by the name I chose. Confused my family a bit, but they've actually gotten to the point they use it.

But there's the constant problem of people who can't deal with the non-traditional name.

I think there are a certain number of people who can't deal with any name. My real name is not THAT unique (Nadine), but people get it wrong all the time and call me completely the wrong name. Natalie, Renee, Nancy, Denean.

I went through a short period during my sophomore year of high school when I changed my name to Merlyn (hey, it was the '70s). This has passed unlamented into the mists of history, except when my husband wants to make fun of me.

Now that the temperature is falling, I need to go shopping for clothes. I suspect that I don't have much to wear for fall and winter what with the enshrinkening.

This, I think, is me looking like my mother.

Has anyone here used the standard Smashbox Primer and the green-tinted one? My mind is convinced that the green-tinted one doesn't give me the same creepy smoothness the uncoloured one does. I'm running out of green and trying to decide what to buy next.

I don't wear makeup regularly, so I still get a charge out of some of it. Applying light eye shadow to the arches of my brow pleases me deeply. Not sure why so much.

Why do I have blue eyeshadow? That doesn't make sense.

Oh, and today is protective footwear day!

Or monochrome day. You get options with me, never doubt it.

I transitioned to my middle name when I started college.

I have a friend who changed to her last name when she started college. To everyone before, she's Christina, to everyone after, she's Christina. But her college friends all call her LastName. It must sound so odd to her family, especially. I remember I called her family home once and asked to speak to LastName. Oops. I actually didn't even realize she'd made the switch until a month or so in. Must've asked her her last name.