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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So maybe I am the only person that has a pair of tights that fit right now??
Is there a simpler way to tidily fasten the back than attaching a snap fastener, but with the end rolled over and stitched down so you can't see it?
Sophia must know the answer to this, but I'm going to say glue, assuming you won't want to use the ribbon again.
My tights fit--the normal ones. The compression tights--I don't believe they fit anyone. Like, I want to be able to put them on so I can get compressed, but yikes. My mother is entirely paranoid about edema (I might have a history, so what?) and nags me about flying wearing them. But I'm going to wear compression socks instead.
My sister fucked up her foot pretty badly (spent weeks on crutches and may still be in a walking cast for the wedding next weekend), and apparently she needs compression hose too.
FINALLY finished the anti money laundering training & test. I cannot believe how much of my professional life I've been required to take that AND I STILL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT TERM LIFE is. Okay, fine--I have an idea. But I'm never going to touch anyone else's so how am I going to stop money laundering?
Grammar question time! One of the slides in the seminar I'm in had the bullet points of:
"Data are organized" looks WRONG to me. Or am I just being clueless?
I got invited to be an external reviewer for some NEH grants. Is it compensated? Of course not. I am sort of getting tired of these pleasant professional honors that don't have any connection to me getting paid. Yes, still not employed.
Is there a simpler way to tidily fasten the back than attaching a snap fastener, but with the end rolled over and stitched down so you can't see it?
Sophia must know the answer to this, but I'm going to say glue, assuming you won't want to use the ribbon again.
I always just glue the ends over and down, and then stitch on hook-and-eye fasteners.
Depends on your style but in mine data is treated as plural.
Data is technically a plural, so "data are" is correct. But a lot of people are vague about its plural-ness, and "data is" is also common, so that is probably why it feels wrong.
I got invited to be an external reviewer for some NEH grants. Is it compensated? Of course not. I am sort of getting tired of these pleasant professional honors that don't have any connection to me getting paid. Yes, still not employed.
I guess the idea is you get stuff for your resume, and contacts?
I was pretty damned close to breaking into tears in the office, so I took myself out and walked to a restaurant six or eight blocks away, and had a fried fish sandwich and a beer. So crisis averted, but I'm still upset, just not to that level.
And apparently Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people. Yay, but WTF.
Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people.
Hopefully a sign that things could get better in the long run.
"Data are organized" looks WRONG to me. Or am I just being clueless?
Our house style is that it's a plural word. To the point that "data is" grates on me terribly. (NPR, I am looking at you.)