All kinds of job~ma, msbelle. I'm sorry.

Do you think people (mis)use "Victorian" as a synonym for "fancy, especially fancy with lace and/or ruffles and sort of old-fashioned looking and maybe poofy"? I'm starting to think that's the reasoning behind the misuse.

Yes. I know I'm guilty of misusing the term sometimes, but I usually try to say "Victorian-inspired".

Argh! I'm very sorry, msbelle.

Hmmph. Sorry, msbelle. Jobma.

I wonder if I'll have time to read the "making it" article before the consultants come back. I have no idea where they went. I hope they're not lost.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, msbelle.

msbelle, if I win the $150 million like I"m TOTALLY PLANNING TO tomorrow, I will hire you as a personal assistant. :)

I'm sorry, msbelle.

Victorian is not the only era so abused, although it's probably the most frequent. I spend a lot of time on eBay saying, "No, it's not" to the description.

I was volunteering on a home tour, and the owners had descriptions of all the furniture, including a secretary that had been in his family "for generations," which was certainly possible if he meant two to three generations. It was a '30s reproduction.

Sorry to hear the news, msbelle! What crappy timing.

I'm sorry msbelle, I hope you find something soon!

Oh, ye gods and little fishhooks, msbelle. I am so sorry, and enraged at the stupidheads on your behalf. How any employer could have the great good fortune to acquire a msbelle and then just squander her excellence is beyond me, and also makes me kind of want to punch someone.

ION, I have complete and utter laryngitis. Fine and healthy otherwise, but oh so silent.

And I love that Tumblr. "Victorian" has the multiple pitfalls of not only being abused, but of itself covering so many decades that it really needs to be subdivided to make any sense. A fashionable woman in 1838 would have thought the fashions of the other end of Victoria's reign came from another planet.

Tim Tebow is just annoyingly public and super vocal about his religion. It was a big thing when he was at UF and he was much more public about in ways he can't be in the pros.

For example he wore a different Bible verse on his eye black at every game.

I think he writes one on his wrist band now but I'm not sure.

Besides the Prop 8 stuff Tebow and his mother made a pro life ad that was going to air during the Super Bowl (but I don't think did) about how when she was pregnant with him she was advised to have an abortion but because of her faith she didn't.

One of the issues of the ads is when she was pregnant she and her husband were in the Phillipines where abortion has never been legal.

I recently read an article about how other pro players are very religions but aren't in public about it. For example Troy Polamalu is Greek Orthodox and very devout but most people know him more for his hair than his religion.

I will note some additional bias on my part against Tebow - I'm a fan of FSU, a rival of UF, and UF and Tebow had great years while FSU really struggled.