well hello there

[lianhanshee]

I just got knocked on my ass for a week with an awful, awful cold -- although it felt like maybe a touch of the flu, too. I'm feeling about 75% and I have something resembling an appetite again, so I'm back at work (I was out for 2 days! That's almost unheard of in my group - normally you have to be on your deathbed to do something like that. But

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[lianhanshee]

Okay, yes! I can't pick anything up and I'm often dropping things. They might look pretty, but there is a huge price to pay, as far as I'm concerned! I can handle stilettos better than long nails! ;)

Yay, portrait-gazing! I wonder how crowded it will be. I'm sure the security guards will be totally unprepared for the flood of college kids who would never otherwise go to the NPG. I've actually been meaning to go anyway, it was closed for like, 4 years to undergo renovations and it just recently reopened. Plus there's a Chipotle across the street from there. Yummmmmm. (although that must sound silly to a Texas gal).

[agate]

Oh man, I wear acrylic nails for the exact same reason (bare nails result in nails bitten to the quick and epic hangnails and after two and a half decades of biting, quitting is just a pipe dream) and nail technicians NEVER BELIEVE ME when I tell them how short I want the acrylics. Nor when I tell them that yes, I really do want that neutral polish color, and no, we can't do magenta just this once, and no, I don't need flowers airbrushed on my thumbs.

[ratphooey]

The thing about long nails is that when you grow your own, they grow gradually, and you have a chance to get used to them.

I don't understand why people who are sick don't take sick days. Unless your presence at the office will literally save lives, stay the frak away from me with your germy germs!

[firthgal]

Hee, that security alert thing made me giggle. And OMG YOU'RE GOING TO SEE STEPHEN'S PORTRAIT!!!! See, I'm such an embarrassing fangirl that I would take a bazillion pictures of his picture. Definitely one of me doing the Stephen pose from last night (just modified a bit since the portrait would be above me rather than next to me). Anyway, wish I could go. :( I'll just live vicariously through you. ;)

[paper_jam11]

I swear, everyone in North America got the EXACT same cold this year. I'm just finishing mine off. Be careful, though, it comes back if you push yourself too soon.

You'll get used to the nails eventually. I have the opposite problem. Mine grow and grow until typing becomes too challenging and I cut them off. Then everything is weird and awkward and hard to grab until they grow back. I'm learning to just file them now so I don't have that weird phase of typing like a chimp.