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May. 10th, 2006
I finished grading last night. today I emailed those students of mine who asked for their grades ahead. at 4pm I was done with everything, and didn't know what to do. My colleague L*** wandered into my office, with the same dilemma. we chatted for a hafl hour about how we really didn't know what to do with ourselves now that we didn't have to grade for hours. she said she was thinking of going shopping. "Me too! For what?" I replied. It couldn't have been for a new bathing suit. Mine still fit and all, I'm not growing anymore, and it's not shrinking, but it's faded and the chlorine smell won't go away. But yeah, it was for a new bathing suit. We went to the same places, different cars and slightly different times though. I wonder if she thought it'd be awkward to be around a colleague while shopping.
Tankinis these days have plunge necklines. The whole reason I buy tankinis though, is that I want to show my midriff (which 1-piecers don't let you do), but I *don't* want to show my cleavage (which bikinis force). I found a flirty little strapless thing that'll replace my current bikini (the old one's not faded, but as my chest/cleavage is worse than it use to be, from my skin condition, my confidence in baring that portion of myself goes down), but I couldn't really swim in it. It would be for sunning or lounging in the water, or whirlpools. Not that I swim well. And I'm resigned to my armpits showing, I have to be or I couldn't function. :-\
Tankinis these days have plunge necklines. The whole reason I buy tankinis though, is that I want to show my midriff (which 1-piecers don't let you do), but I *don't* want to show my cleavage (which bikinis force). I found a flirty little strapless thing that'll replace my current bikini (the old one's not faded, but as my chest/cleavage is worse than it use to be, from my skin condition, my confidence in baring that portion of myself goes down), but I couldn't really swim in it. It would be for sunning or lounging in the water, or whirlpools. Not that I swim well. And I'm resigned to my armpits showing, I have to be or I couldn't function. :-\
Riding Lawnmower
May. 10th, 2006 11:30 pmOne day I told ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blue102 about a scene in the Asimov and Silverberg novel Nightfall (I believe the scene was also in the original/inspiring Asimov short story, but I'm not sure).
( Spoiler Warning )
Well,blue102 and I went off the deep end with this one as usual. The end result was a riding lawnmower painted the color of old parchment paper, with side-mounted flame-throwers, working its way through university libraries, with flames painted on the sides that also resemble pages from books, and little icons painted on the side of the mower showing the profile of each library we had taken out.
This one was almost as good.
blue102 about a scene in the Asimov and Silverberg novel Nightfall (I believe the scene was also in the original/inspiring Asimov short story, but I'm not sure). ( Spoiler Warning )
Well,
blue102 and I went off the deep end with this one as usual. The end result was a riding lawnmower painted the color of old parchment paper, with side-mounted flame-throwers, working its way through university libraries, with flames painted on the sides that also resemble pages from books, and little icons painted on the side of the mower showing the profile of each library we had taken out. This one was almost as good.