My secret personal theory: in Starfleet in the reboot Trek universe, male Starfleeters are forbidden by regulation to wear the skirt uniform. Starfleet catches a lot of flak for this, but they're a traditional kind of organization in some ways, and the higher-ups have stuck to their guns- young men can't wander around with their bare thighs visible ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about princesses.

The Halloween costumes on sale for girls still a bit too young for fishnets (under age five, say) look to be about seventy-five percent princess dresses. Which seems like a lot, though I can see the appeal of a pretty dress, and I went as a princess myself one Halloween when I was a kid- I was Princess Leia, ( Read more... )

I can't find my phone.

I say this precisely: I can't find my phone. I have not lost my phone. It is somewhere in the middle of the north quarter of our living room. In the couch, I think. Three times now I've been called on it, and the ringing gets louder and clearer as I throw the cushions frantically off the couch (again), and yet I never quite ( Read more... )

The triumphant cry of the huntress home from the hills: I have acquired a swimsuit, and it fits, and I like it. This is the kind of event I felt was worth commemorating.

Also, I am now something like four-fifths done with the kneesocks I've been knitting since, I'm pretty sure, 2007. Maybe 2006. (These, if you're curious.) I know I've thought " ( Read more... )

2009! *\o/* Less than a year until we can start saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand and"!

Voted. No lines, which doesn't seem natural. Gave the poor guy with the stickers a bad moment, as I was wearing my racktacular Green Lantern tank top, which offers basically no place both flat and respectable- he eventually settled for sticking the sticker on the top of my shoulder ( Read more... )

Went to a Halloween party last night dressed as Black Canary, Golden Age version. Won 'Sexiest Costume'. Feel pretty smug about this ( Read more... )

Y'know what? Jetpacks, zeppelins, and flying cars get too much press. I love them all, of course, don't get me wrong, but- it's the future. I want to commute in a powered parachute. I want to get a job in order to commute to it in a powered parachute.

Aren't they lovely? I want to see the alternate universe where those things are puttering across ( Read more... )

Look! It's Black Canary's socks!

I've started doing origami in class. This is working out very well- it keeps me awake and more or less on the same planet, but requires so little focus that I can still listen to the lecture. My previous strategies consisted mostly of zoning out, reading under the desk, or both, so this is a marked improvement here ( Read more... )