I love that progressives are calling the protests Moral Mondays. I feel like we always get on the short end of the "doing the right thing" naming things.

As I understand it, a bunch of the organizers are ministers/priests/[your religious title here]. Which might have partially led to the name. It's making it really hard for the opposition to label them hippie commie thugs gathered to do drugs, destroy America, and seduce your teenage offspring. Although the opposition is giving it their best.

I typically IM work folks with a "Hi - do you have a moment" rather than the issue because I never know if that person is sharing their screen with someone else. I don't want to share my questions or whatever with folks other than the intended.

I have been reading the Power of Habit and thinking about trying to replace my lazy sluggish habits with a working out habit. Since we've been back from vacation, I've been very careful about going to the gym and doing something, even when I don't want to. Especially when I don't want to. Then I make sure to reward myself. Yesterday's reward was a jambon sandwich (that IS what they call it) from the local french-ish bakery. Today, I made a thin mint milkshake which I mostly gave to Noah.

I hope I can keep it up.

A few times this week I've answered "How are you?" with "Full of feminist rage, you?" That always catches people a little off guard.

Is it good? How are the reviews?

Reviews should be out today and tomorrow. It's a mix of Mary Zimmerman style and Disney songs which can be odd at times. I think it would help if a known song happened earlier in the show. The music is amazing. All the traditional Indian instruments mixed with the jazz/swing band is tons of fun. I'm hoping they'll put out a soundtrack. Oh, and there is Andre De Shields who brings the house down every night.

Random question:

The french bakery near me has a sandwich board out front heralding, "iced cold drinks" which looks weird. Should it be "ice-cold drinks"? Do they mean the same thing or is their a nuance I'm missing?

I think it's always iced tea, right?

That's really interesting Kat. I've developed a good habit of walking home from work and taking longer walks (around 10 KM) on the weekend over the last year. It's good exercise and great for stress. It had gotten to the point where I was anxious if I couldn't walk home or go for a walk on the weekend.

Lately the weather has been crap and I've had other commitments after work the last few weeks, so I feel myself slipping and getting lazy. This weekend I didn't go for a walk at all. I had a serious case of the "I don't wannas". And I know I have to be more vigilant. Rewards may be a good idea.

Sue, the book is really great. It talks about how we establish habits (cue - routine - reward). My cue that I'm trying to change is feeling tired or stressed. I want my routine to be go to the gym, instead of sitting on the couch and the reward has to be big enough to override my usual reward of wasting time on the internet.

The book is great because it's not really self help-y, though there is plenty of food for thought. It just looks at some of the pscyh research around habits, individually, institutionally and communally.

I think it's always iced tea, right?

It's always *supposed* to be "iced tea," but I fear that ship has sailed. t /inordinately bitter about "ice tea"

I mean, ice tea is totally different than iced tea. Iced tea is tea which has ice. Ice tea is like a whole different flavor.

I have a hair question.

When we moved down here, and I needed a haircut, I looked at reviews on Yelp and went to a nearby place. I told her that I wanted the layers in my hair cleaned up, and my one request was that the pieces on either side of my face not be cut so short that they fell out of a ponytail.

I really liked the finished haircut, except -- it's at least three weeks later, and those pieces are *still* too short to stay in the ponytail.

Should I give her another chance or find a different stylist?