there you go, jgesteve

NYCLU says random bag searches are unconstitutional and ineffective.


on a whole other subject, why is there no such thing as coconut soda?  i think that would be really tasty.

memo

to my head:  please stop feeling pressurey kthx.

i understand that we are allergic to various pollens, and that something is irritating something in the back of our nose and that is why we keep sneezing.  i appreciate that you are trying to flush out the allergen, and i hope you notice i went yesterday and bought two more boxes of the tissues with lotion in them, so go ahead and get as runny as you need to -- i'll keep blowing our nose until the irritant is gone.

but i have given you antihistamines and decongestants, so it kind of bothers me that our sinuses are still aching.  and i'm really unhappy about the pressure in our right ear, as you'll no doubt have become aware because i took that expectorant a little bit ago to thin out whatever crap is in there not moving.  and we've had a hot shower, and i keep loading us up with the hot tea.  what more do you want from me?

love from
fox

an observation

it should not be the case that things i don't care about can make me cranky.

because i promised orange852 weeks ago:

here is a picture of my poor sunburnt neck, cleverly disguised by about eight layers of makeup, some judicious use of fake tan, and the necklace orange852 sent me for a couple of christmases and a handful of birthdays.



( full-sized image behind the cut. )

it's actually not quite as easy to see in the picture as i thought -- but that's good, i mean, the fake tan did its job.  i was, i think, mildly allergic to the stuff -- it wasn't a problem, but it wasn't something i could continue to use for a whole season, and the vague mottling (at least, i can see vague mottling) below the necklace is a result of that.  beginnings of a slight adverse reaction.

what you're looking at above the necklace is a nasty, nasty sunburn up to about the point where if you drew a horizontal line between the spots where the necklace disappears, and then un-burned, fair skin above that.  the burn resumes again on the face, which i have mostly cropped away.  :-P  there's a layer of moisturizer on there, then a layer of revlon's "skin lights" lotion, which is responsible for the faint sparkliness -- i love the stuff, not so much for the glitter (which, if you use little enough, is pretty subtle) as for the thing where it evens out the tone.  SO MUCH LOVE.  then a layer of liquid foundation, which i don't normally wear -- i had to  buy it specifically for this purpose; and a whole mess of pressed powder.  all that, combined with the fake tan below the necklace, and the necklace itself, and the average passerby who wasn't looking at a closeup photograph might not have noticed the glaring, sky-illuminating sunburn there.  w00t.

orange852 also made the earrings, which i admit are hard to see against my hair.

and, the scar on the underside of my chin is from when i fell down, as a kid, one time when i was swinging between the sewing table and the arm of the sofa, and cut myself on the beveled hardwood floor.  five stitches!