If this is Eagan, this must be where did I put my earrings?

[mrissa]

I am still pretty vertiginous from the trip. I am also just plain stupid amounts of tired from the stress and difficulty resting this week. It was a pretty worrisome week in spots, and the vertigo did not help me sleep any better, and...buh. I am the level of tired where I start something and then suddenly remember that I absolutely must dash off to do something else, and if I do not start a third thing in the middle of those other two things, I will completely forget the third thing. I have been adding just idiotic things to my to-do list, because I am the level of tired that is just sure that if I do not write it down somewhere, I will forget it.

(I'm not wrong. I went over to my to-do list to write down two more of these things and could not remember either of them. Sat here staring at them until they finally came back to me. Uff da.)

I wrote another short story last week, after I finished "Carter Hall and the Motley Lions." It's called "Rituals of Optimism," and it will need more revising than the Carter Hall story, but I wrote it all the way through, and it is mine, and last week it was nobody's, and that is something. This is good. I needed to write more short stories sometime, and last week I wasn't prepared to work on novel stuff anyway, so two short stories should definitely be scored a win. However--now I have the stuff to do with those two short stories and all the stuff I didn't get done while I was gone.

Figuring out how this goes might take me a day or two.

Here is an example of how stupidly tired I have been. Last night I was home, and Dad had just left, and I was drinking milk from my favorite big blue mug and beaming weary beatitudes upon markgritter and timprov and Ista and porphyrin and Mike and the kids. Suddenly it hit me, and I shared my revelation with the room at large: "I don't think I shaved my right leg! [pause] Like, all week! I don't think I shaved my right leg all week!" Now, some of you shave your legs, and some of you don't, and I support both choices; there is no one right answer here. But I do think that probably "one of each" is a suboptimal answer by whatever metric.

Fear not. I am now symmetrical again. I know some of you were worried out there.

Symmetrical. But not--in most of the possible senses here--balanced.

I am promised sushi and ice cream this evening. I hold people to promises like that.

Comments

[jenett]

Now, some of you shave your legs, and some of you don't, and I support both choices; there is no one right answer here. But I do think that probably "one of each" is a suboptimal answer by whatever metric.

Except the metric of "Makes me laugh out loud and get very strange looks from work colleagues". Where it wins, totally.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i know women who shave the bottom half but not top half.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do they wear longer skirts than me? Or...well, broad range of possibilities there, isn't there. Huh.

[jenett]

I am like that. But I have not worn a skirt shorter than below-the-knees in at least a decade. I generally do to the top of my knees on principle. (What princple, I'm not sure. But a principle of something.)

I do occasionally shave the top half, but we're talking like once a year.

(There are ways in which my calves are very nice and sturdy. There are also ways in which the muscles are permanently warped by serious horseback riding in my teens, and even if I wanted to deal with sitting and moving and bending down in short skirts - assuming I could find ones I liked in my size, which is a non-trivial question - I would still think my calves looked weird in them. So. Calf-length skirts, normally.)

[laurel]

When I do shave my legs, I usually just shave from just above my knee down. Sometimes I'll skip the knees.

This was the case even when I wore shorts and short skirts back in the day, but then I'm blonde and usually wore tights or hose if I was wearing a short skirt or shorts.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I can get away with just-above-the-knee and down most of the time, even in pretty short skirts. But then sometimes, for apparently no reason, the hair will just come in darker.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I do that in the winter, when if I'm wearing skirts short enough to show the bit above the knee I will die of cold anyways.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

I shave only the bottom half of my legs when I shave. The hair on the top is sparse enough or light enough that it just isn't necessary.

I am hoping that one day the rest of my leg will be as the top part so I will have leg hair like my mom's - every once in a while there will be a rare hair - one tweezer pull and bare legs again.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Green tea ice cream?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

NO.

Er, excuse me, oh, I mean, no thank you. Thanks just the same.

It will likely be either the kind of strawberry ice cream that is made with liquid nitrogen or else vanilla bean ice cream with burnt caramel sauce and dark chocolate chips. Or maybe mango sorbet.

It will not be at the sushi restaurant. If it was at the sushi restaurant it would be one of those lovely wee mochi ice cream things with strawberry ice cream inside. But I think not.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

*giggling* You must feel very strongly about the green tea ice cream for your Scandosotan response to kick in second. ;)

Vanilla bean ice cream with burnt caramel sauce and dark chocolate chips sounds amazing.

Liquid nitrogen ...? I should have paid attention in Chem ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

LN ice cream is awesome. There's a company here in Minnesota that does a bunch of kinds of it--the banana and the strawberry are best. It freezes fast, so it's reallyreally creamy. Not as good as when you have the dewar and can make it yourself, but still pretty darn good.

[redbird]

You don't need to know much chemistry: basically, the liquid nitrogen substitutes for the ice cream maker. Mix up milk, cream, flavorings, and sugar in a container, pour liquid nitrogen on top, stir until it reaches appropriate consistency, and either serve or put in the conventional freezer for later. (I haven't done this in years, but it was fun.)

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

My favorite homemade ice cream (made with liquid nitrogen and some fierce protectiveware) was at a friend's birthday party - pomegranate and peach...yum yum.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am a big sucker for really good peach ice cream, so that sounds amazing to me.

[cathshaffer.livejournal.com]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while!

[moiread]

Oh, Mris. So much love for you and yours. ♥

[lisa-bouchard.livejournal.com]

I, too, have gone out and about with only one leg shaved. I survived to tell the tale. And, being an old married lady, I shave my legs from the knees down in the winter (all skirts are below the knee) and more in the summer because the shorts are, well, shorter.

Rest up, and I'm very happy to hear your Grandfather is on the mend.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I have had days of realizing I only shaved one leg (not weeks, but then I've never simultaneously dealt with severe vertigo and family in the ICU). I find I do drop bits when over-tired and -stressed. I think it was the time I shaved only one armpit after insufficient sleep that helped me finally realize the *real* reason why my undergraduate grades looked like that.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I have actually, truly been mocked for the paucity of my leg hair. Admittedly, not since I was a baby-dyke in college, but still. I could shave one leg for months and not the other, and one would need a magnifying glass to tell the difference.

I hope you had your sushi and your ice cream and that you found your earrings.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Oh man, do I get like that when I'm overtired. Makes for fun conversations too. Glad to hear you fixed the asymmetry.