I don't think getting to up and dressed and leaving the house is supposed to be this hard to get to, even on a Monday.

I hope she was having the same issues meshing with a designer that Jennifer Garner or Emma Stone does, not that she was dealing with professionals who found her rules hard to work with. Because they're not all that restrictive.

FWIW that's what I thought you meant.

I don't think getting to up and dressed and leaving the house is supposed to be this hard to get to, even on a Monday.

It's a sign. The gods want you back in bed.

Of course by the same token the gods must want me to head into work. Isaac got dressed and ready early today with no complaint so he could play briefly on the iPod before school. Whoa. That was unexpected.

I hope she was having the same issues meshing with a designer that Jennifer Garner or Emma Stone does, not that she was dealing with professionals who found her rules hard to work with. Because they're not all that restrictive.

Here's the article: [link]

The Emmy gown was specifically, and painstakingly, selected to cover Ms. Bialik’s arms and much of her chest, conforming to the religious modesty guidelines she has embraced. Last year, she wrote in her blog about the arduous quest for a suitable dress, which she called “Operation Hot and Holy.”

It succeeded only after Ms. Bialik, frustrated with her stylist (“It was not a meeting of the minds,” she said), bought her own dress online. This year her new stylist, Alison M. Kahn, chose the gown, by the designer Pamella Roland. (“I don’t know who she is,” Ms. Bialik said in August, “but I don’t know who anyone is.”)

Even so, stylist and client had a back-and-forth about the contours of the neckline, with Ms. Bialik acknowledging that she “rather subjectively decided” that the original version was too “plungy.”

“It became about it being plunging, which to me is just one of those distinctions of modesty that I’ve decided to stay on the other side of,” she said. A compromise was reached.

I'm back in life automation mode. I'm exploring the add-ons for Evernote, my most-used app on my Android devices. I found a templating tool. The graphics on the notes it spits out are way too cutesy for me--I need to work out how to strip those down, but I have altered one to my needs this morning: Dr's appointment. Hopefully this helps stuff. I was just keeping "remember for Dr. F" and "Dr. F said" notes, but this is better.

I've created a section for current medications, so I can fill out their form *properly* (I always forget something, a dosage or something stupid), and a Prep Notes section for stuff I know I want to mention (do I need a new methadone script? What did the pain doctor say? How's the ER been going?), a Discussed section, and a Takeaways/To Do section was well as standard timestamp and appointment identifiers.

I don't get what the special difficulty here is, except that Mayim Bialik loves to tell the press what a wonderful special snowflake she is, and so obviously HER quest for a long-sleeved gown is totally different from, say, Julianne Moore's or Julia Ormond or Lena Headly...

I don't get why being modest for religious reasons should be significantly different from working with someone who says "Oh, not the boobs--I don't like my boobs, no cleavage on national TV. And have you seen my cankles??"

Please--don't take this as me equating religious modesty with either shame or vanity. What I'm trying to say is that designers get the same sort of restrictions as she will give for many other reasons all the time. They might want to be dressing Halle Berry all the time, but everyone's going to have preferences, and even if someone's definition of "too plunging" isn't backed up by internet authorities, it's just part of the job for designing clothes for someone not you.

My closest Orthodox friend in high school's biggest clothing issues were with her parents. For some reason her mother *really* wanted her in a sleeveless dress at her brother's bar mitzvah, and she refused point blank. That was a fun week or so.

They compromised with lace sleeves.

Oh, hey--Jessica managed it in one sentence.

Mayim Bialik annoys me too much to waste a whole paragraph on her.

Something for the Good Things Tumblr: [link]

I'm in the office. Kind of wish I wasn't. One of my nicer coworkers is retiring, boo. And I have a messy teleconference at 10:30 I don't want to do.

ION, I have a pile of paperwork to send to my parents' physician, sort of behind my mother's back. I'm all stressed out about this, yes, but I think I need to remember that it's way more stressful for my mother...

Deep breaths, Consuela. If you can get them into this place, all of this will be very much worth it.

Mayim Bialik's dress doesn't look like anything you couldn't find in the mother of the bride department at any store. Also, don't call a designer, call a dressmaker, if you want to tell them exactly what you want. It's not hard.

I love her character on Big Bang, and the way she plays it, but every time she says anything about parenting, my eyes roll out of my head.