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Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes, super cool.

Had a long video chat with Patty yesterday. We tentatively know when she's coming to see me in CH (one month, yay!) and have booked us a hotel for the duration, since there are reasons to think that corporate apartment situation might not really be what we need. Aggravating, because CH is so expensive, but I was honestly just grateful to find us a room, since they apparently like little towns on lakes when it's cold.

We've also been talking about our big non-working trip of 2011. Cruise option is still on the table. Then, the "let's rent a houseboat for a weekend in Amsterdam when it's cold" morphed into "let's rent a houseboat on the Seine for a week in Spring/Summer" which is now dueling with "let's rent a boat and sail around France's canals for a week or two." Er, yeah. Awesome, ne? Maybe a week of each?

I gotta register some domain names and do production things this morning after I finish this report.Done. Now we're into hurry up and wait mode. Soon? To the post office!

I look so good today it's ridiculous. (You know what's helpful? Actually having some male fashion role-models whose builds aren't that dissimilar from mine. Like, sure, Keith Olbermann wears fantastic clothes, but that don't help tiny little ol' me).

Meanwhile, argh! Email from the class reunion. First, dress code is apparently casual, so jeans and a "nice shirt that isn't stained" will be fine. Okay, look, I know we're Stuyvesant High School, but this is costing me $80 and is in the meat-packing district: STEP UP, PEOPLE. Secondly, the email went on and on about the goodie bag from our sponsors. Hi, this isn't a trade show or an awards ceremony. Sponsors? schwag? what now? Sometimes I hate my high school.

This all leaves me with a dilemma on what to wear, because wow, that dress and those shoes might be a little much now. Maybe wear the dress with boots (that are flat, meaning I won't be playing 5'10"+ for the event)? Or wear the awesome boy outfit I'm wearing today? I don't know. It's not like I won't get to wear the dress again in CH when I'm hosting the awards ceremony.

Oh yeah, did I mention that's part of what I'm doing in CH? Ayup. My mom keeps asking what that means, and I keep saying "It's like I'm Hugh Jackman!" Is this helping? No. No, it's not.

Did anyone in NYC make it to that candle light vigil last night? I was thwarted by rain, and, I must confess, a desire for ShakeShack, which has a gluten-free policy I was pleased to discover. Look, at least I'm honest.

Help Bacon.

This is not okay: Teacher reassigned after he tells a student in response to a direct and relevant question that he's gay in a manner that struck me as perfectly age appropriate. This is something particular I don't talk about a lot, and I deal with it somewhat less for being a woman, but the thing where I am assumed to be a predator towards children because of my gender presentation and sexuality? Causes me a great deal of upset.

Imam's wife discusses death threats.

I didn't know there were still squeegee guys in New York. Apparently so.

Well, small favors. Love Never Dies not coming to Broadway in 2011

azn_jack_fiend wrote me The Sea of Sleep for retconbookwrite (I'm still finishing mine up for my recipient). It's a lovely historical for one of the better tie-in novels, The House that Jack Built, and it has some of the best historical accuracy I've seen in this fandom. Also, hello, women characters! Fic headers provide all the background info you need if you've not read the book.

Listened to some of the commentary tracks on Moulin Rouge for the first time in ages while cooking dinner over the weekend. I'd forgotten how really bizarreo they get in places (the thing about the bullfighting!).

Totally missed Boardwalk Empire last night. Do I care?

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Hippo Birdies, two ewe!

My high school was full of farm boys and the sons of enlisted soldiers. Telling them "nice shirt that isn't stained" and to wear their dress jeans was a good idea and about all you could expect.

As it is, even for my HS reunion, most of the guys managed to at least put on dress slacks/khakis and at least a nice oxford shirt; many had actual suits with ties. I think you're right to want and expect a bit more.

The floating/punting/canaling sounds fun and romantic.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That we live in a world with the idea of "dress jeans" makes me want to cry, even if I wearing mine right now.

[miep.livejournal.com]

I think it's a thing. It's a paper on haberdashery waiting to happen-- how this clothing item, co-opted from the working classes and made into something that can command $500 a pair, has become so ubiquitous as to have qualifying adjectives denoting the context in which they may be appropriately worn. Kinda hilarious, but not.