Scrappy, I just got this [link] from Boden, and I love it! After looking at the reviews, I got my bigger possible size, and it fits perfectly. (Edit: Sorry, I just saw they don't have the blue in 18, and I'm guessing you don't want the ivory? Anyway:) They have other cute ones as well. And a whole "smart day" category, which sounds like just what you want.

Buffista Retreat and B&B? [link]

I will happily serve as hostess/manager if y'all over a medical plan.

any record should have a space for "Preferred Name," and that name should be the one that goes on the top of every page

This is so true, so many of my students go by a different name and it would be so helpful if they could use it as their official name. At least our uni has the Preferred Name category in some of the documentation, just not all of it.

I am liking that Boden dress, not that I need a new dress right now. And I think the ivory is purty.

Buffista Retreat and B&B?

Holy schnick, yes please! How awesome would that be!

This is so true, so many of my students go by a different name and it would be so helpful if they could use it as their official name. At least our uni has the Preferred Name category in some of the documentation, just not all of it.

Yeah, this same friend posted something about trans* issues in the classroom that pointed out something that I've been doing wrong -- for taking attendance in a class with 65 students, I print out the class list and pass it around and have them sign next to their names. I hadn't thought of this before, but I'm going to start doing it -- I should have the students fill out a form at the beginning of the semester that asks for their information, including preferred name, and then put the preferred name on the sign-in sheet, since there could be students who don't want the other students to see their legal name.

Thank you all for the suggestions, especially Teppy! I had never heard of Igigi and they had the PERFECT dress: [link]

Bought! And now I don't have to worry about looking blah in front of my whole ginormous family.

Better yet! 8 unit APARTMENT COURT!!!

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OK, so I know that when I learn a new language, I have to get my brain to recognize some new sounds. But Hindi has eight different letters that make D or T sounds, and I can't hear the difference between most of them. Which has mostly been OK so far, but I'm learning numbers now, and "seven" and "sixty" are both "saat," with different T sounds at the end. And I've listened to them a whole bunch of times and just cannot hear the difference.

Pretty!

I had 6 hrs of meetings/interviews today. And about the same of work that needed to get done. I will be logging some work hrs this wkend. Fuck me. But the two candidates we interviewed today brought gold. #1 from yesterday still is in and vying for top pick, but these two...we now have our top three. Of course all are exceedingly pricey to fly in, so we may have to skype interview them all if HR won't play.

And prepping my house for plumbing demo. Which means cleaning out 2 closets and my mantle

Oh and the name thing reminds me I need to bring that up in a fight we're about to get into at work ( as in, need to add that field.) Which was one of the meetings.Archive was the guinea pig/forerunner/theresawordforthisIamforgetting for the concept of a single sign on ala Google for the Institute. Next big portion is coming on and they want to change the whole brand. Fuck no. You don't do that to the community of users. Where the fuck were you 3 years ago? You adapt to make it seamless to the users, you don't make them jump through more hoops. Especially not a year after you did the first leap.

I kinda hate everything, if you haven't noticed.

I had never heard of Igigi and they had the PERFECT dress:

Oooh, I like that one! Yay!

"seven" and "sixty" are both "saat," with different T sounds at the end.

Listen for the long aa in saat (7), the aspiration at the end of saatH (60), and the r at the end of sat-tar" (70)