In every woman's house...

[asterroc]

C/o the_xtina. Do you have these in your apartment/house?

1. Piles of magazines everywhere, comprised of tons of pretentious ones that are clearly untouched and then severely thumbed-through Vogues and Luckys.
Well, I got rid of a bunch of Physics Today and National Geographic. But I did keep the Real Simple.

2. Overflowing shoe rack and nothing in the fridge.
Nope - no rack, the shoes are piled in the closet (and in a box under the bed), and T$ stocks the fridge. :-P

3. Scented candles.
Nope, as of the move - they're not good for birds so I got rid of them. I kept the unscented ones.

4. Slovenly heaps of little-used makeups in the bathroom.
Nope, since it's a new clean place. They're in boxes instead.

5. Stuffed animals in the bed.
Gave them to my old neighbors, yay!

6. Cat hair on the furniture.
Feathers instead. Close enough

7. Cat smell.
Stupid old tenants. Yes. And bird smell.

8. Cabinets full of mugs featuring the likeness of lady who looks like those hypertrophically-limbed Daily Candy illustrations, bearing the legend "I Love Shopping" or whatnot.
Not quite, but lots of other mugs, including ones from college

9. Anything pink.
The box I keep my Sandman comics in.

10. Ornamental pillows.
Not really, but between T$ and I, we have way too many functional pillows.

11. Unedited bookshelves, esp. if they include He's Just Not That Into You or anything along those lines.
I'm not sure what they mean by "unedited", but I certainly wish I had more bookshelves

12. Nair.
NO.

13. Lite cottage cheese in the fridge.
Ew. No

14. Anything lite or diet around. Cases of Diet Coke. Weight Watchers 'Just 2 Points' bars.
I don't do diet. I'm only 125 pounds wearing shoes.

15. Inspirational or thinspirational things on the fridge.
Do magnets reading "animals are tasty" count? It's T$'s, and I'm afraid what my veggie neighbor will say when she sees it, but I think it's awesome. My alien poetry magnets will go up soon too. Once I find them

16. Framed posters.
Not framed ones, but comics will go up soon.

17. Handbag tree.
A what now?

18. A copy of "Bridget Jones' Diary", either the book or the movie.
ew.

19. A really cool shower curtain.
Green and filmy, fits the current (tacky) color scheme just as well as the old bathroom.

20. A "goody drawer".
Boxes and boxes of multiple generations of goody drawers/shelves.

21. Smelly bath salts, fizzes, or bubble bath gel.
Of course. Want some?

22. Some product from a home selling party (Tupperware, Cookie Lee, Party Lite, Naughty Lady).
no

23. Soft fuzzy socks, possibly with an image of an animal sewed on.
of course

Comments

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Hiya!

I think you are who I think you are -- I'm Victoria -- now out in LA.

*performs kowtow to the mighty internet*

How's it going?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

*looks at profile* Holy smokes, how did you find me?! (And how long ago?) That is, I think it's awesome that you did, but I try to hide my personal life from my students, so now you've got me paranoid again. :-P Why not shoot me an email at zandperl-AT-gmail-DOT-com , or my first initial last name (no space or punctuation between) also AT-gmail-DOT-com and we can catch up some more. :) JT also has an LJ, but doesn't use it, you should be able to find her among my LJ friends, and now I'm going to go back and read all your entries... :-P

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

No need for paranoia -- I wouldn't have guessed, but rosefox pointed me your way!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Ah hah, that was actually my guess! *Whew* The paranoia isn't entirely unwarranted though. Before I became so anal about it, my Dad found my old blog, and then I started to be more cautious about it but one of my students found me anyway! And now I'm really totally paranoid about it and friendslock anything that could possibly identify me - now that you're on my friends list you'll see some more stuff than before. And I have filters for people who I don't mind seeing me rant about students and so on, but as it's summer there aren't many of those right now. :-P

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Hmm...At some point in my new venture into the bloggosphere I'm probably going to have to start worrying about this, huh?

Quick -- streaking aside -- have I made any incriminating remarks?

*rummages frantically*

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

When in doubt, use a friendslock. But no, I haven't seen anything that seemed too identifying.

When the student and I ran across one another in someone else's journal comments, I think the student was as freaked out as I. rosefox is the one who suggested how I respond, and I took her suggestion: she recommended I say something to the effect of "yes, you're right at who I am, and now I'm sure we're both going to be paranoid about others reading our journal." I haven't seen the student since.

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Ah -- that rosefox -- how wise, how rosy, how foxy!

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

thanks for reading and commenting! boy -- you read/type fast...

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That's how I finished HP7 in just under a week without any insomnia. :-P As for the typing, when I first started having to type papers (probably as soon's we started Hunter), my Mom gave me her old word processor on the single condition that I put my fingers in the right spots. It was painfully slow at first, much slower than hunting and pecking was, but by the time I went to college I could touch type, and I definitely think it was worth it now.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

As a fellow of rather catholic reading tastes, my eyebrow raised when I saw your vehement rejection of the Bridget Jones series. I happen to own a copy of Bridget Jones's Diary, a remnant of a course on adaptations of nineteenth century novels. And while I would not hold up Bridget Jones as an example of a highlight of our culture, rejecting the novel with a curt 'ew' seems to me to shortchange its merits.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

As I have never actually read or watched Bridget Jones' Diary, my impression of it as a floofy valley girl movie/book could be entirely wrong, and it is that upon which I based my statement of "ew". If the book is written in the style of nineteenth centry novels, I would change my comment (at least regarding the book) to "ugh" - I am not a fan of classic novels. (And here I'm thinking Jane Eyre, Jane Austen novels, and the like, which I could again be mistaken about as being typical of 19th cent. novels.)

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Well, 19th Century novels include the Brontes and Austen, as it also includes Dickens and Hawthorne and... well, it certainly includes Verne and Wells and Shelley and Poe, doesn't it? Denouncing an entire century's worth of novels on stylistic grounds is a pretty bizarre statement.

Bridget Jones's Diary is not written in the style of a nineteenth century novel, per se. It's in a fairly modern, quite slangy adaptation of the classic epistolary mode. But plotwise it's a reworking and reassessment of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, showing the romantic difficulties of a modern woman of feminist tendencies by contrasting them to the romantic difficulties of a nineteenth century woman of feminist tendencies (Elizabeth Bennet).

The movie does its reactionary best to obscure Bridget's virtues, but the novel is a fierce defender of Bridget, who is far more than a floofy valley girl. And yes, the book is lighthearted and sometimes insubstantial, but there's something to it, particularly, I think, as a counter to Nick Hornby, whose writing few would challenge as significant in the contemporary literary world.

sorry this is so off-topic

[demigoth.livejournal.com]

I have a random Etsy question. If I "convo" someone on the Etsy site, does it email a notification of the conversation to the person?

I actually sold two items (the cheapest ones, of course, heh), and the first lovely customer paid right away, but the second hasn't yet. I just wanted to let them know that if I got their payment soon, I could mail the item tomorrow. Of course I probably should have emailed them directly, but for some reason I did Etsy convos instead. And Etsy won't let me "talk to myself" to test for any (lack of) notification emails. :P I should email the person in any case and just apologize for any potential duplication, but for future reference it would be cool to know. Thanks!

answered my own question? :-/

[demigoth.livejournal.com]

Oh jeez it would help if I had read the FAQ again, sorry. I fail at reading comprehension because I missed it the first time. I guess it's up to their user-set preferences. Potentially redundant email it is! (Although if you have a rough idea of the prevalance of users opting for email notifications, that information would also be useful.)

Re: answered my own question? :-/

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oops, didn't read this before I replied to the original question. :-P

Re: sorry this is so off-topic

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

IIRC, people set up their own preferences to either email them an Etsy conversation or not, at their discretion. I've only sold a couple items, but it seems some buyers expect to receive an invoice via PayPal before they will sent payment, so you can try doing that (presuming you're using PayPal, of course). According to the Etsy terms of service, buyers are supposed to automatically pay you when they buy the item w/in 3 days, and if they do not do so the seller is supposed to report them to Etsy, but I'd try the PayPal invoice first.

FYI, feel free to email me off-LJ at zandperl-AT-gmail-DOT-com .