Amy, if you can cut the potting soil with vermiculite or some of the finer orchid potting mixes, that would be ideal, but they should also be fine with regular ole miracle grow potting media.

Cool. Thanks, Ginger and Julie. I have one that's actually thriving, which is a whole new thing for me, The Plant Killer, so I'm thinking it might need to be repotted soon.

I really want to get the one called String of Pearls, too. So pretty.

I really want to get the one called String of Pearls, too. So pretty.

Come on! Pearl necklace, just sitting there!

Nurse today had a bit of spunk still left in her (I know, it was deliberate). She had the gall to say "You argue about the little stuff, I argue about he big stuff, like war and poverty." I let so much slide with her, but I did make sure to point out that challenging heteronormative assumptions like "male characteristics" and "how hard men have it" and "women's things" and "men have to support the household" are things that can be challenged one on one, one by one, and are not *small*.

By the end of the discussion she didn't exactly take back what she'd said, but she said I had a way of challenging people's assumptions without putting them on the defensive (come see me on the internet some time!). I think what it is is that I've found the frequency of discussion that makes her dizzy, so at the end of my point she's not sure what happened, but she's sure something has, so I get the benefit of the win.

Still, fuck you, lady. Challenging gender performativity and sexism, challenging how someone thinks of their wife/sister/mother/daughter/self is not a SMALL thing just because it is an individual thing. Do not get confused on that point.

And we haven't gotten into how stupid she's still being about trans* issues. Sheeit.

(I know, it was deliberate)

Oh, thank god.

(come see me on the internet some time!)

Heh.

It was aurelia that mentioned that lovely white tulip shirt from Fringe at Thinkgeek, right? Only in women's cuts, for random (floral) reasons.

Indeed. I did notice they were getting requests for men's shirts.

On the Mars thing: the one-way, short-term nature of the trip is less of a down side than the reality show aspect.

Despite waking up at 7 and starting a pot of coffee, I had a serious failure to launch this morning. I need to break that weekend habit. Despite that, I did go to IKEA for lightbulbs and a hangery thing to organize my bras (only have 3 new, but a plethora of sports bras, since I tend to get filthy in them with regularity) and may have found some glass shelves to hang in my bathroom ( [link] I wish I could get the clear shelf with the white bracket rather than silver, but there is always spray paint) Came home, swam, watered the front (no rain in several weeks,) sliced up a bunch of peaches and about-to-go nectarines to flash freeze, emptied the handvac, poisoned weeds, gave myself a halfassed pedi and ate dinner.

Things that didn't get done because I remained on the couch until 12:30: hardware store for reusable 'paper' towels, car scrubby (my car needs washing, bad) paint stripper, table saw, sawhorses, plastic to wrap up screen door....ah well, it'll get done eventually. I really want to repaint my basement doors and rescreen the one down there. I think I might have to have the french doors done professionally; that might be too much for even me.

Oof.

It's funny how some people's unproductive days look like triumphs of Get It Done!ness

I'd love to buy from this woman [link] but those aren't cubes and I don't know if I can live with the lie.

Rectangular prism.

(Right?)

There are glass ones in Target, though, that are cheaper. Which I want, because I'm sick of plastic without a dishwasher.