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Compare! Light photoshopping provided by emmett_the_sane. If I do say so myself, the resemblance IS striking. If Emmett were to comment here in the morning with what edits he did (was it just the glasses and hair, or did he change anything else?), I'd be interested to hear about it.

( Questioner as Gillian Anderson )

Ding dong, the nipple rings are gone!

It's disappointing but for the best.

The details:

I went to Body Manipulations on 16th at Guerrero. Their facility was clean (though not as clean as Tribal Ways), and the guy I saw seemed very knowledgeable and handled the problem promptly and properly.

The left ring was almost all the way out already. Not offended particularly, but migrating out. The right one had been migrating on one side, but not the other, which accounts for why it seemed more tilted than I remember it originally being.

According to the guy I saw, I was not rejecting the metal. However, his shop does not have access to european surgical steel, so when I get them repierced I should go for the titanium.

It was apparent that the cause of the migration was the use of 14g rings on large breasts. The rings curving down along the breasts pushes the rings up and outward, which caused the migration. Next time, I should use 12g barbells.

Tribal Ways was concerned about inserting threaded barbells into a fresh piercing, but apparently there are barbells with INTERNAL threading. So this isn't a problem.

So in two months at the earliest, I will probably return to Body Manipulations and get them repierced with titanium barbells. Once those are thoroughly healed, I can use my rings with blue beads, which I've kept.

When I first got these piercings, I was conflicted about them and did not have the right motivations. But when and if I repierce them, I know I'll be doing it because I know what I'm doing and I want them. So I think this is for the best. The piercings be a symbol of my own independence and right to choose.

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babbling

the nipple ring holes are closing up amazingly fast.

take a vanilla mudslide. substitute nocello for the kalhua. mmm.

Perfect drink to get work done with!

I'm already finding people's responses to the math poll incredibly amusing. Like the people who inconsistently interpret the notation, yet claim that there is no inconsistency in the notation that makes it confusing.

It's also interesting to see the people who haven't done advanced mathematics think they are all addition. Which is exactly the confusion I am concerned about when dealing with my students.

But I guess there are inconsistencies in notation, by nature. I mean, you can't denote multiplication of 2 by 3 by writing 23, even though you CAN denote multiplication of a by c by writing ac. So sure. In some cases, you have to break down and write the multiplication sign.

In truth, the only one with which I believe there is any real ambiguity is the first one. The others are quite clearly multiplication.

I think I might finish this chapter and then do data entry while I watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which I've never seen. Life is so hard!

math question 2

OK, is it kosher for me to say the quality is directly proportional to the inductance when in fact it is proportional to the square root of the inductance? Does that still count as directly proportional?

That is, Q=const*sqrt(L). I want to describe this as directly proportional. Kosher?

So much for Hedwig

The dvd they sent us is practically cracked in half.

I guess I need to work more anyway.

*pout*

On another note, after his debut as a zealot-director, I don't think I'll ever consider Mel Gibson's presence in a movie as a recommendation. Icthth.