I've only been fingerprinted once, in Atlanta twenty years ago. Just the right forefinger, to get a stripper license. I wonder if they still have those on file? If I ever commit a crime, I'll have to remember to wear a band-aid on that finger. Or gloves.

I want many of those ModCloth things, but then hate shopping online because I never know how it will fit, and so many things fit me funny.

I can still do OK at goodwill or Value village, but "consignment" stores and shit make me laugh--I was in one with my sister the other day and they had a shirt from Forever 21--not a fancy shirt, more like a tshirt--that had a HOLE in it (a tiny hole, but a HOLE), and they wanted $10!! I was like "fuck this noise, I'm out..."

For those living in major urban metroplexes who've tried to sell clothing to used and vintage places, are you finding those places are super super picky now compared to 10 years ago?

Yes, very much so. Which is why I don't bother to sell things to those sorts of stores, and just hold sales of my own.

Holy carp, yes. I took a buttload of nice shoes and boots that I'd worn maybe once each to a consignment store here, and the girl *turned up her nose* and said they only wanted *current* styles. Nothing like having the shoes you thought were really nice dissed by a college girl.

Oooh, I would be SO annoyed with the clerk. But I bet that's why I can't ever find any Fluevogs in consignment boutiques, dammit.

I have to draw things in meetings or I start falling asleep, which I think would be even more obvious. I play with drawing new fonts and draw the things on the table. I've drawn a lot of coffee cups and water pitchers over the years. I suck at people, but I'm okay at inanimate objects.

meara, you just haven't done the right consignment shopping. Kat took me way back when, and I scored some nifty stuff. My main interview suit apparently belonged to Mrs. Magic Jordan.

If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I get paranoid about that, but can't stop making stars and spirals in the margins regardless.

meara, you just haven't done the right consignment shopping.

I swear, I am going to give all of you L.A. and SF peeps my phone number, wishlist, and shoe size, and have you call or text me if you find anything good.

If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I worry about that, too, but it doesn't stop me from sketching outfit designs while I'm listening.

I've drawn a lot of coffee cups and water pitchers over the years.

All we have on the table are conference call phones. I have done some heavily modified pictures of attendees. I hope to never get busted on that.

If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I assume they're like me and need a controlled distraction so they have at least a hope of paying some degree of attention to the speaker.