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[abilouise]

Uck. I don't know whose idea it was for me to become lil' miss self-employed (am I now lil' ms. self-employed since I married Jake? or did I take his name and become Mrs. Grad Student Stipend? I don't think I did that somehow...) but financial record-keeping is an amazing pain in the ass. Some fun facts:

-this year I spent $222.48 at Bob Slate in business-expensables. I love Bob Slate. I would be Mrs. Bob Slate if that were even possible.
-I have no idea how much was spent on car-related expenses in the past year and have no idea where those records are because I don't pay them.
-I finally grossed a 5-digit number this year! Barely...
-I am officially (sorta, almost, without aforementioned car data included) in the black this year for the first time EVAR! Working at MTI helped a lot...
-Excel and alcohol do NOT mix.
-I put up exactly 100 posters today around Cambridge and MIT.

Oh! One other fun not-financially-relevant fact is that I attended another birth last Wednesday! It was awesome, and I learned that when baby boys are born they have disproportionately large testicles. Nobody believes me.
Also, I have discovered a new person-you-could-end-up-stuck-talking-to at a party, by being that person: the person who enthusiastically pimps the Diva Cup/Keeper and also talks in detail about all things vag. I'm not sure how I feel about being this person, but it seems like it may have been inevitable. Besides, someone has to spread the Good Word about the Diva Cup. Last night I wanted to make a Diva Cup little mini-comic to distribute. That would involve having free time though.

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[jadia.livejournal.com]

Hey, that was one of my more enjoyable conversations!

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad, because I worry about being one of those people who doesn't know when to shut up about something, especially something that not EVERYONE at the party is probably interested in

[jadia.livejournal.com]

Nope! You weren't even monopolizing a whole room! You can't be one of Those people without at *least* doing that. ;)

Anyway, I may buy one now.

[mangosteen]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a mini-comic about the Diva Cup in the form of a Chick Tract.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Viva la Diva!

[mistergoat.livejournal.com]

You should meet my friend Miriam, who used to take that role around the Keeper (back in the day before the Diva Cup existed, harumph harumph). I remember her telling a story of a woman approaching her to announce that she was using a keeper at the time, and her not being sure how to reply--pat her on the head and say, "That's great, dear"?

I actually do believe you about the testicle thing, as I was there when a close firend's son was born. Her midwife said that it had something to do with hormone levels in the womb, I think.

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

I used to do it about the Keeper, but then I developed a rubber/latex sensitivity and fortunately, the Diva Cup existed by then.

Yeah, the testicles is a hormone level thing. I've heard also that sometimes newborn girls have little microscopic periods.

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

Having seen enough small boy bottoms to last me a couple of lifetimes, I can believe it. (My mother still talks to me about grandchildren. One of these days I'm going to lose it and explain in no uncertain terms how her doing daycare out of the home caused me to never want kids. It won't be pretty.)

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

You may want to add to you list of menstrual cup factoids that it might not be a good idea to use it during plane flights. In particular, one should avoid having it be at all full upon descent and ensuing pressure change. No injury or anything, but unpleasant blurping out of contents...