From the annals of Fashion Can Be Scary: Thom Browne Mixes Preppy, Punk & Fetish Styles In His Fall 2012 Menswear Collection

Watching Set It Off. Well, for at least the next few minutes. I can't believe I ever liked this. It's really stiff and awkward.

But it has gay Queen Latifah!! What's not to love there??

Lancome's Primordiale serum (when I worked for Lancome, I got addicted. SMOOOOOOTH skin. LOVE), and Smashbox's Tinted Moisturizer with SPF for day, Philosphy's Miracle Worker Miraculous Anti-aging Retinoid Pads and Clarin's Super Restorative Night Cream for evening.

I get so confused by the multiple layers of stuff, and the different things for day and night, and so on.

Ok, I also wanted to gripe earlier that I went all over and couldn't find jojoba oil. But ita !'s "ask" approach never occurred to me. However, I still have ten bucks on my gift card so I'll try again. Or get nail polish.

Great news, Theo!

Yesterday I learned not to order bananas foster cheesecake at Longhorn Steakhouse unless you haven't eaten in several days. It was heavier than the rest of my meal combined! Fortunately I found the willpower to eat only about 1/4 and gave the rest to my folks to avoid temptation. (Not as evil as it sounds - my mom is still underweight, though no longer dangerously so, and anything I can do to encourage gain is of the good. Passing that cheesecake on to her is the closest I can come to the direct donation of pounds that I've joked about.)

I just ate a third of a pie. Blueberry pie. So yummy. Omg. I like the crust, but I could just do the blueberries alone. They were "boreal blueberries" from Quebec, via trader joes.

Cindy, Strega, you guys need to stage an intervention and get TWoP Howard to seek professional help. S/he is editing poster's comments all over the place to delete things like "Am I the only one?" as boards-on-boards discussion, and is apparently staying awake about 23 1/2 hours a day to do so. There is no longer ANY sense of proportion or appropriateness to this person's oversight.

Well, today started off badly. Groggy, achy ... and the bus I wanted to transfer to went right by the stop without pausing, leaving me and another person standing. Which meant I had to transfer to the train, which meant another whole fare. And the machine lied about how much was on my farecard, so I added some money to it when it turns out I didn't have to.

Luckily I stopped and got half and half to put in the (otherwise undrinkable) office coffee, so I can get properly caffeinated.

Well, today started off badly. Groggy, achy ...

I feel ya, Todd. My mild cold has gotten to the feathery cough and queasy stomach of sinus drainage. And I've got to hike over to the East Bay to collect Emmett because he's got strep and I need to get him to the doctor. Poor guy. I remember how much that kind of sore throat hurts.

I am so overwhelmed at work, I seriously can't decide what to do and am paralyzed. I hate that.

I think I might have said something about the top news story in my city being the remodeling of the cafeteria where I work. Well, in addition to the remodeling, they have launched this new healthy food initiative, where we can make healthy choices based on little signs by the healthy food. Which is dumb, because I think people pretty much know what is good for them and will not be helped by little signs.

But the funniest part is that they haven't changed their menu at all yet, and apparently the guidelines for healthy are very stringent because in the past 2 days, only 3 menu items have qualified for the little symbol and they are all vegetable sides. So literally no entree that they serve is healthy. Which sort of defeats the whole purpose of the campaign!

Which is dumb, because I think people pretty much know what is good for them and will not be helped by little signs.

You do. Don't underestimate what other people think. I've had the weirdest arguments with people about nutrition, and it's not like either of us was talking about anything niche like Paleo, or anything. It was just basic food group stuff.