I love those chairs in general, and I like the red.

What about long lace gloves, Jilli?

I love long lace gloves, but I don't think they would make me feel any more confident about my upper arms.

With that top, I'd wear one of those croppy 3/4 length cardigan-shruggy things.

Ooooh, good call! I have some of those!

I really like the red, sarameg.

The pillow is one of those covers I got in Madrid. The other is red tones, but not the same red as the chair, but I'm all over mixy-matchy ecclectic being ok.

I also vote red!

Oh -- other people are working on Windows machines, but you're on a Mac? OK, I can see where that's confusing, if you don't even see the letters.

Yeah, that's where the disconnect is for me. They all see the letters (hard drive is C:, CD drive is E:, etc., and then the servers have drive letters) but the band of Mac holdouts in my department don't. Everything just has a name. So I never think in terms of those letters, which causes miscommunications that would be funny if they weren't happening to me.

I need a do-over for this evening. Busted a shot glass in the garbage disposal when doing the dishes. Digging out the shards of glass was not fun. Then I burned my pinky making dinner. Not even sure how I did it, but it still hurts.

Aha. I have found what to wear with that top.

Oh, look! Fassbender in Jane Eyre.

I have never actually read or watched Jane Eyre before. I'm just doing it this time to stare at him, and it reminds me I haven't reblogged a Fassy picture on Tumblr yet today, so I'd better catch up.

One of my neighbors came over to do in-person opinating (she approved with the caveat that she likes red a lot.) Actually having her sit in the chair as we chatted made me think I can live with the red and that it will continue to grow on me. It made it more a part of my home and not this new interloper.... heeehee!

He was teh Sexy in Jane Eyre. It's too bad he and Mia Wasikowska had no chemistry.

The outrage fatigue is fatiguing. Yesterday, the county Board of Education proposed closing Fernbank Science Center [link] because of budget shortfalls. Aside from the fact that Fernbank Science Center is the focus the school system's out-of-classroom science, the building reverts to the landowner, the very-high-admission Fernbank Museum, if it's not being used for educational purposes. After that, it will no longer be a lovely little free research museum and a $2 planetarium show and turn into a $17 admission facility that does no science. Also, facilities like the planetarium were built with county money, but the county loses them forever if the lease is broken.

There are various petitions and the like, but I don't know what really has a chance of doing any good.

Uhg. I hate that kind of waste and shortsightedness.

Pumpkin kinda clashes with the chair. But she approves of it, as does Loki. When Sandra was over, they were all over her and we weren't sure if it was her or the fact she was sitting in the chair, which is their new fort. At least the cathair comes off it easily (and is easily spotable, but that's kinda good because I can clean it off before someone sits down!)