Oh, and today is protective footwear day!

Dammit! The one day this week I'm in training and wearing sandals. But I'm researching protective toe guards online right now (AIFannoying), does that count? My boots are in my car.

I always use the green one, but I'm very very pink, so for me it makes a difference.

Does it really not make you look, y'know, green? I'm very pink, but I can't fathom smearing green stuff on my face and coming out normal.

No, not green at all. Unless you were putting it on in VAST quantities. Plus the intent is you put foundation over it (though I often wear it alone)

I like that silver dress, ita. Very pretty.

I like a lot of my clothes, but I like nothing more than that dress. It was...I had to buy it, and I had to find occasions to wear it. It's just fabulous. I hope to be able to wear it for a while more.

I feel like I'm leaving my father out. He was very cute that night too.

My sister wasn't there, but this is what she looks like now. It's her birthday, BTW.

But I'm researching protective toe guards online right now (AIFannoying), does that count?

You of all people! I thought you were an, ahem, shoe-in!

I've got a totally random "Ask an average hearing person" question, to try to settle a point in my Deaf Culture class: Do you know what the phrases "Deaf President Now" or "Deaf Protest of 1988" refer to, without looking it up? (Some people are arguing that this event had a huge impact on how hearing people think about deaf people. The general sense that I've gotten is that most hearing people don't even remember it.)

Do you know what the phrases "Deaf President Now" or "Deaf Protest of 1988" refer to, without looking it up? (Some people are arguing that this event had a huge impact on how hearing people think about deaf people. The general sense that I've gotten is that most hearing people don't even remember it.)

I only know because I took four semesters of sign at Gallaudet. :)

ita, those pictures don't come up for me.

I know about Deaf President Now but only because Mom taught Deaf/Hearing Imparied students (at least for awhile, she started out as a speech therapist, transitioned to classroom teaching, and then later out of classroom teaching).

So I paid attention to things dealing with Deaf Culture because I was curious and was friends with some of her former students.

It might be Wear A Cat To Work Day.

Given the bushels of cat fur that adhere to my clothes, every day is Wear A Cat To Work Day for me.

Cash, I'm sorry things are so rough with your brother's situation, and I hope everything gets worked out quickly.

My RL name is "Heather," which doesn't lend itself to nicknames much. My BFF refers to me as "Heathen" now and again, which has the bonus of being technically accurate.

I'm at work. I'd like to be shoe shopping—not my usual thing, but I want good walking shoes for France. Maybe something like this, to go with black and slate gray wide-legged trousers? [link] But the work will pay for the shoes (plus food, rent, etc.), so here I stay.

I'm also tempted to get an iPad for the trip (and for future fun), but I keep reading the news about how everyone's getting poorer and the economy's going to crumble like a sandcastle hit by a tsunami, and that's making me sort of twitch away from it. The shoes, at least, are a work wardrobe investment as well as a trip thing.

I haven't heard of either of those, Hil.

Of course, now I'm going to go look them up.