Congrats, shrift!

Slut Walk is totally different, IMHO. You don't have to dress slutty at a Slut Walk, and the underlying message is provocative clothing does not cause rapes (or something along those lines).

If I had not been struck with a migraine, I would have gone to the Seattle Slut Walk wearing my usual gothy-Victorian-cupcake wear, because I've been sexually harassed by wearing it.

I understand that cosmetics are historically fraught. But dammit, I'm with Allyson in this: my personal aesthetic is for ME. Other people seem to like it, which is a nice perk, but I do all this for my enjoyment and amusement.

Yay, shrift!

IcompletelyON, this is depressing for us U.S. workers:

Statutory holiday entitlement is the amount of time off work that an employer must provide its employees by law. Workers in the U.S. have no statutory holiday entitlements while employees in the U.K. have 28 days. U.S. federal law does not mandate pay for time not worked and holiday policies vary widely.

I see encouragement, which they're totally supposed to do

I don't like the thing they're encouraging, so I wish they wouldn't do it. How is that unclear?

I have no issues with individual people wearing any amount of makeup for individual reasons. But I think the idea of an organization ostensibly celebrating women's power by telling us all to wear lipstick is really fucked up.

I don't like the thing they're encouraging, so I wish they wouldn't do it.

Oh, okay. I just didn't see the harm or pressure in it, so from where I was standing, I wouldn't have cared if they were encouraging people to do it--I'd just skip it myself. I was over-reading into you wanting them to stop. I thought you meant they were doing a bad thing, not just a thing you weren't interested in doing (regardless of the cause they're talking about).

Yay shrift! And did you ever email about the military thing? Because I haven't seen one. I had lunch with my dad (which involved a long discussion of some admiral I'd never heard of) and it reminded me.

I just won a Yankee swap! By "won," I mean that what I brought was the most popular -- traded the most times, and ultimately taken by the person who could choose anything -- AND it cost me $2.50 at CVS just prior to the party. AND I ended up with microwave popcorn which I will totally eat, and a scratch-n-sniff book, which makes me laugh. Sweet.

Jesse. You have like the best attitude of any human being I've ever known. You're my favorite Cowgirl. Which, saying a lot, considering how much I love Cowgirl Creamery cheese.

Thanks, guys!

I guess that means you're succeeding in raising your visibility?

I hope so. That's a work in progress, but it's definitely an incentive to keep working on it.

Oh, BTW--there were apparently profuse apologies in the restaurant on Monday by the skeevy-guy-with-a-hat.

Skeevy-hat-guy needs to work on not being a cautionary tale.

shrift, CONGRATS on the raise and bonus!! And keept it quiet from the family, Ms. Moneypants!

And did you ever email about the military thing?

Not yet, but I should do that this evening. Thanks for the reminder!