I'm cold and I hurt and I just want the stupid to stop.

Oh, and a student just sent me a message in all caps, with about 20 exclamation points, because he didn't understand why his answer to a problem was wrong.

Ugh. So two weeks ago, when I had that drama with the missing driver license and got to my hotel at 1:30AM and so on? Apparently one of the people at that site was SO upset she called MY BOSS to say she felt I was "unprofessional". Why? Because I was eating. A granola bar. When we had a meeting in their site kitchen for five hours. During which the doctor was eating a salad. Wtf lady??? I wouldn't care if she personally thought it was not cool, but to CALL MY BOSS?!?!? Jesus. You wanna see unprofessional, lady? Fuck.

My MiL is beloved by hummingbirds. They come to her kitchen window when the feeder is low, and when she moves away from the window they fly to meet her at the back door.

She says to make sure to take the feeders down in September when the weather first gets cooler. Hummers migrate, and if there's food, they'll stay too late. She's a font of hummingbird lore. Won't have pets in the house, but the outdoor critters are okay.

Geeze, meara. I hate people like that. I work with too many of those type myself.

I love hummingbirds! So wonderful for you, KB.

In happier news, a hummingbird has built her tiny nest on a bracket next door in the covered part of the driveway.

How neat! I have a feeder up near my front window. I really need to take it down and clean it out before spring.

I'm (probably) on the season premier of The Americans tomorrow at ten on FX. I'm attending a conference in a black dress with small white flowers and some truly fabulous 80's hair.

ooh! Fun! That's one we record and actually watch!

So warning to all the ladies (and gents who shop for ladies) out there: pretty sure that American bra sizing has changed dramatically in recent years. I took a friend to Nordstroms today for a bra fitting (because she's had a couple kids and was complaining that none of her bras fit anymore, and it seemed like a nice day out for the two of us as a birthday gift to her.) I went in as a 36c, having been professionally fitted at that same nordstroms 7 years ago. She went in as a 36b. having never been professionally fitted. We were both fitted as 34dd's. Every bra both of us tried on today was either 34d or 34dd....and they fit. Tighter through the band than either us were accustomed to...but then we were also both wearing bras more than 6 years old. DD. Unreal. Plenty of you have met me, and while i'm by no means flat chested i'm also not super buxom (well, not without a corset.)

The only reasonable explanation is that the ladies undergarment industry is gradually increasing bra sizes. Which makes sense, honestly, there's a whole alphabet out there, why not use more of the letters? But still, it's a total mindfuck to increase a gal's cup size that dramatically without major weight gain or significant life events.

It's a shift to plus-zero band sizing, especially in Euro brands, though it's been going on for a while.

I wear a 32D now most of the time. I am a small-breasted woman; for 15 years I wore a 36B. I find it pretty funny, because in a lot of styles a D is very structured and has big straps for support, and I really don't need that (they often change slightly when you move from a C to a D). The problem is, people with actually large breasts get pushed out of standard sizes - there isn't anything bigger than a DD in many stores.