I have a large amount of my cutoff yellowish platinum hair somewhere. what the hell to do with that?

Oh my gosh, we found a box full of our baby teeth after my parents died! Undifferentiated, of course. We threw it out immediately as gross, but then lo and behold, our own kids started losing teeth and my sister said she suddenly understood why my parents couldn't throw them out. We have Franny's and Isaac's stashed away too, in case they want to make a necklace or something out of them. But at least they are in separate baggies.

Okay, and as for grapples? Who is the kid who doesn't eat apples because they aren't sweet enough? Not my kid, that's for sure.

[edited to correct spelling. ahem]

Huh. They're about to vacuum out a storm drain by my house. I hope it doesn't stink too badly, I'm drinking on my porch.

I took it by accident, if that helps?

Well. How... by accident? Like, how does that work? Then we'll see if it helps.

A baby tooth necklace would be awesome! Pretty sure ours went the way of the garbage.

Timelies all!

We had a farewell lunch for one of the post-docs at an Indian restaurant. It was a buffet, and I managed to not eat too much.(Though maybe I shouldn't have had the second bowl of rice pudding. Oh, well.)

Well, this is damned depressing. You know how all those career-advice columns say women should just get over their (culturally-imposed) modesty and ask for the raise and the promotion? The gender gap in careers and salaries would go away if we all just expressed our ambition in the same way that men do!

Apparently that advice is wrong: women who do ask, still lag behind men. Isn't that just awesome?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?

Well. How... by accident? Like, how does that work? Then we'll see if it helps.

It fell into my purse the day of the big haircut, and then I kept it when I found it.

msbelle: [link]

It helps. Because I know you wanted to know. MmmmHmmm.

Apparently that advice is wrong: women who do ask, get punished. Isn't that just awesome?

Of course they do.

The "women are generally socialized not to make waves and ask for more" thing accounts for some of the gap, for sure. But it's less often that people acknowledge the flip side of that - bosses (male and female, though I would hope to a lesser degree) are socialized to see those who do make waves in a negative light. Pushy, instead of ambitious. Bitch, instead of driven. Same coin, different side.

Not that that's all there is to it, by any means.

To be fair, I misstated the results--it doesn't seem as though they get punished, but they also don't get the raises.