May I show Tim?

Sure! And thanks! It was a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure I'm going to draw more. I need to work more on how the bondee looks. He's too comfortable in that shot.

Brenda: [link] Good luck and godspeed.

Wow. I don't know what to think about the girl with the baby bump. That takes a lot of conviction. I certainly could never do it. But I'm not sure what I'd learn.

I'm trying to work out what Fleshbot's Porn for Straight Girls point is (if I have to tell you that's NSFW, I don't know what I've been teaching you all these years). If IO9 suddenly busted out with a sci fi for chicks or Jezebel with a gossip for guys, it would be weird. Women and straight women might not be their primary audience, but they're already there, no? On top of that, what unifying requirement do we have out of porn that's not being satisfied by the rest of their articles?

Wow. I don't know what to think about the girl with the baby bump.

I'm impressed by her dedication and thoughtfulness, and at seventeen. The experiment isn't without some pitfalls, but she seems like a girl who's going to do some interesting things.

she seems like a girl who's going to do some interesting things.

Yeah, for something that could be strewn with a lot of problems, she seems to have gone into it pretty thoughtfully, and for thoughtful reasons. It can't have been easy or fun. I certainly wasn't doing anything as interesting at her age, for good or ill.

The one thing I learned in the comments is that every senior in Washington is expected to complete a six-month project of some kind, which seems far beyond anything I was doing at that age, regardless of what the project actually is.

I saw that, too, Jesse, since I couldn't resist going back to the comments. And I agree -- at that age I was trying to skate through my exams and get to the weekend, pretty much.

I didn't read the comments. I guess I shouldn't?

I didn't read many. There were some criticisms about the ethics of her lying to the community for an extended period. For mine, she got her parents' and the principal's permission beforehand, and her boyfriend (the only other person who ran any reputational risk) was cool with it, so I don't see the problem.

It seems to me that mild bondage may be on the continuum of "confined = comforting" that Temple Grandin discovered with her squeeze machine.

I had a job interview yesterday that didn't actually SUCK. It's for a contract job that probably wouldn't run more than six months, but it would still be fun and educational/resume-assetful. Plus they only have three candidates for the job!

You can send a little job-ma if you have any just lying around. At this point, even an interview that doesn't leave me convinced I'll never work in a professional job again is a big plus....

I don't recall my high school requiring any sort of project like that, goodness. I do wonder what she told her friends her project was!

Jessica, I would probably make it shorter and less formal, but even if he knows you he may not really have an idea of your background or where your interests lie.

you already sent it, but this. I wouldn't have a clue about most o my coworkers backgrounds or fiddly things they do other than main parts of their job that affect me!

I just finished my radiation therapy.

\\o/

I just finished my radiation therapy.

You know what this means.

HOOKERS AND BLOW, BABY.