On Never-Complainers, Workaholics, and the Balding-and-Manly
@themegnapkin Also: I think it's relevant how senior this guy is. If he's a year out of law school, then he is lucky to have a job while many of his classmates are still unemployed and being crushed by crippling debt. In that scenario, his cutting back on his hours could mean he loses his job, and his workaholism could be temporary, lasting just long enough to put him in a good position with regard to his loans. If he's been working at this pace for several years, though, then unless he absolutely sucks, at this point he has enough experience that he can find a job that will not swallow his life.
But, either way, skipping your rehearsal dinner for work is lame and a huge red flag.
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On Never-Complainers, Workaholics, and the Balding-and-Manly
@Reginal T. Squirge seriously, I know attorneys whose wives are effectively single mothers raising 2+ kids. At least they don't have to worry about money, but still. . .
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On Never-Complainers, Workaholics, and the Balding-and-Manly
@Lily Rowan I agree, and (@LW) I say this as an attorney at a big firm: if you're getting frustrated, now, with the hours he's working, then you might reconsider marrying him. Unless he has concrete plans to leave his firm or go part-time, it is not going to get better. If his working 15-hour days forever is a dealbreaker, then better you get out now.
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On Naked Came the Stranger
Here is the WashPost obit for McGrady, it is awesome, and includes such snippets from the book as:
“Faster and faster they communicated,” went one passage. “Fingers on skin, teeth on skin, then great shudders of total communication, and explosions of understanding. Afterward, Morton said, ‘I’d forgotten there was more to life than mowing a lawn.’ ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/mike-mcgrady-journalist-and-leader-of-naked-came-the-stranger-spoof-dies/2012/05/15/gIQAFzGQSU_story.html
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On New Music: Sigur Rós, Regina Spektor, Kelly Clarkson, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
@alebee Mine (asking question about residual crush) is, you are a gossip who doesn't think of others. Get ready for some upheaval (b!tch).
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On New Music: Sigur Rós, Regina Spektor, Kelly Clarkson, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
@alebee Try, try again! You're bound to get at least one good reading out of ten!
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On Friday Open Thread
@likethestore you're not in your late twenties until you're 29 1/2 (applying this logic to my 30s). Happy birthday!
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On Beauty Q&A: ID Photos, Gaudy Shoes, and Looking 10 Years Younger
@namemeansgazelle I have a great passport photo and terrible driver's license photo. What worked for the passport photo: going to Walgreen's when they weren't too busy so I could get multiple re-takes, and wearing heavy eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick. They did something to photos that completely washes them out, and only by exaggerating my features did I look like I had any features at all.
Driver's license: There was no hope for this one at all. In Delaware, you can't smile and they make you look down and to the right. I look pissed off and lopsided.
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On Beauty Q&A: ID Photos, Gaudy Shoes, and Looking 10 Years Younger
@je suis un ananas well, why not do what LW1 appears to be doing? Use matte foundation + powder, and berry or taupe colored makeup?
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On Never-Complainers, Workaholics, and the Balding-and-Manly
@S. Elizabeth I'd love to write that. . . I feel like we have enough lawyers here that we could cover a bunch of different angles - Ask A Public Defender, Ask A Small Firm Lady, Ask An In-House Lady Lawyer, etc.