morning miscellany

[asimplechord]

• Callus ≠ callous. One is a noun, the other an adjective. They are not interchangeable, no matter what people seem to think.

• MrIris's grandma is ten kinds of awesome. She's a Democrat in a very Red part of Iowa, and as such she is inundated with calls and info and requests for cottage-meetings for campaigning candidates during the election season. Her comment about John Edwards? "He has really nice buns. I kept staring at his jeans, the whole time we spoke." That doesn't mean she favors him, though.

• John Cusack on A&E this AM. Yum.

• Talk to me about earlobe stretching/gauges. I got into a discussion with a barista (baristo? is there a difference between masculine and feminine? plural is baristi, isn't it?) the other day about his gauges, about how long it took him to work up to his (his next stretch will up to the 10mm size), and how he'd gone too big to begin with and messed up his ears, and then one of his friends came in, and his gauges that were HUGE, like the size of quarters, and he wore eyelets because the solid gauges were too heavy. Gauges that big make me think ouch, not ooh, cool. So, would you go that big?

Comments

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

No. No, no, no. I would not go that big. And not because of the pain involved. Mostly because when I'm 80, either I will have dangly weird bits for ears, or look ridiculous with gauges in.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

You know, I wondered about that. Because it's not like that flesh stretches back, does it? I have the same thoughts about my tattoos, actually, and that's why I get them in places that don't change much. Because, seriously, one of my friends in grad school got one around her bellybutton. Cute, and sorta hot when she wore a short shirt and jeans low on her hips. But when she was hugely pregnant? NOT SO CUTE. So I can imagine how ink on my belly or on a breast would look when it's gotten saggy or wrinkly later in life. Ick.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

Exactly. At the very least, if/when I get a tattoo, I'm not getting one where it can be seen at any rate.

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

My friend Steph has a dragon tattoo on her belly and through her first 2 pregnancies it wasn't bad, but with her third she had to have a c-section & the incision was over part of her tattoo & now it's crooked.

Also, I'm too chicken to get a tattoo or piercing at all. I had my ears pierced once but I quit wearing earrings when I worked in the call center.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

That would totally suck, because that shit's permanent. I'd be pissed.

I had three sets of ear piercings, but the third set was never healed well, and when I stopped wearing earrings because the holes were infected, they closed completely. I'd love to get my eyebrow pierced, have wanted to since I was about 16, but first my mom hated it and wouldn't let me, and I couldn't afford it when I was a poor student, and then A hated the idea, so I never got it done.