Timelies all!

I don't know if there's a collar category for lab work. (Lab coats come in many colors these days, and not all types have collars.)

Crap, I can't decide if I want to go out tonight, or bail on my friends. I think going out will be better than not, but now that I am home, I just want to stay here! Ah well.

Also, it's too bad my mother and I have several opposite opinions about how to handle stuff at the hospital.

Also, it's too bad my mother and I have several opposite opinions about how to handle stuff at the hospital.

Ugh, I hate that kind of thing as I get all kinds of conflict avoidy at those moments and just defer, unless I think something is going to be a problem.

She actually agreed with me in the end about the specific situation, and we had a good talk in the car about the principles. I'm really glad I've been in my support group as long as I have, because I have heard so much about how different people handle things.

During all the coverage of the Kennedy assassination, I can't help thinking, "President Kennedy. Still dead."

Yes, I remember where I was.

Oh god -- when I got to the hospital this morning, my mother was sitting in the waiting room crying, but I'm 90% sure it was actually because of the Kennedy stuff on the TV.

If Aurelia or NoiseDesign is around, I have a tech question. In professional theaters, when doing a 10 out of 12, do actors get into costume during those 10 hours or are they called in a half hour early in the morning and at dinner break( really making it 11 out of 12.

Late on this, but under a standard equity contract they on a 10 of 12 they are expected to be in the theatre for 10 of those 12 hours. So things like getting into costume have to fit into those 10 hours.

Under some equity contracts in Los Angeles 10 of 12 isn't even allowed, it's limited to 8 of 10.

There are also rules against directors giving notes during half hour, how performance calls work, etc. etc.

I thought pink-collar was female waitstaff and hairdressers. Possibly due to a strong memory of Flo from Alice.

Suzi, I was co-victim of a teacher who used another student and me as negative example to control the rest of the class. I was eleven, in a rocky place emotionally anyway. She changed my entire outlook on school, on life, on friends, on just about everything, and because I trusted adults, I believed I'd earned it. It took me a long time to actually realize what she'd done, and to get past it. I second and support all your mama-bear efforts in dealing with this person.

Someone tried to make off with my stringy faded 30 year old beach towel at the pool tonight. It was so odd. She grabbed it and started drying off and I was all "Honey, that's my towel." She just sort of looked at me blankly and asked what to do with it. "Uh, hang it back up?" On the hook? "Yeah, that works for me."

IDEK.

And I hated having to dry off with a damp chloriney towel someone else had used. Uhg.

Could she have spaced and mistaken it for hers? I embarassed myself years ago by grabbing the wrong shopping cart in the market, and I did not have water in my eyes. Or do you think she just grabbed a random towel hoping the owner would not be around?