The joint graduation party went well.

[hermionesviolin]

People came and stayed lengthy amounts of time. A couple of my friends showed up, and a good number of my brother’s friends showed up (the latter being a surprise to all). Food was good. My mother has started telling people who ask about my quirky plans (bartending and massage school) “it’s all fodder for the novel” (tm Britta) so now people ask me if i really am writing a novel. *sighs*

[Edit: So, in looking through craigslist, i keep seeing positions i think i would be qualified for posted by PSG. Now, i'm registered with them, so shouldn't i be getting calls about these? I e-mail the woman tonight and get an AutoReply saying she's out of the office June 6-13. Now, shouldn't i have been told about that? Grr.]

The best gift of the day was probably my Firefly DVDs arriving. Including the cards that came by mail, i’ve gotten $305, so that was pretty hot, too (and made me feel better about the state of my bank account). Plus Tim&Carla got me a nice bouquet of flowers, and Heather gave me a nice bookmark (flat metal, moon, says “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton”) and also gave me the best card. It says “Congratulations, graduate! Don’t let anything stop you! Reach for the stars!” on the front and has a chipmunk stretching up; then inside it says “Okay, they’re walnuts. But reach, damn you. Reach!!”

The Poussaints’ gift [to me; my brother got an ipod shuffle] came in a Tiffany’s box, which with the ribbon obscuring the logo i wouldn’t have realized prior to opening had my mother not explained it to me. (Tiffany’s has a signature color? Total news to me.) I thought it was a joke, because Tiffany’s is anathema second only to DeBeers (DeBeers wins with the “make six months salary last forever” diamond commercials, but Tiffany’s is a close second with the obnoxious Audrey Hepburn movie) but then i opened it. And okay i searched the online catalog and as Tiffany’s necklaces go, this was actually sanely priced [this, for example, is attractive and classy, but not a sane price] but... i’m not Tina. It’s the one that has a lowercase letter as a pendant. Heather has one, and hers actually looks nice, but a lowercase (script) “e” just looks like a little loopy thing (see). I would have much preferred a check for the cost of the necklace, and if Tiffany’s will give me anything without a receipt it would be store credit which is of course of no help to me.

In other news:

Online shopping, i think the closest to what i want is push-up bras, but from trying on bras and looking at the models in the online catalogs, i think one problem is that bras just aren’t made the way i want them to fit. I want them to literally cup the bottom half of my boob -- starting where it stops being chest and starts being boob. I feel like that’s how i used to wear sports bras (back in like 7th grade when i used to wear bras) but trying to wear real bras that way doesn’t seem to work, and from what i can glean from catalog pictures it’s not how they’re intended to work. Not wearing a bra doesn’t hurt, so i think i’m just gonna wear camisoles under my see-through-y shirts.

Continuing my trend, i was underwhelmed by Saved!. I mean, it’s not a bad movie, but i remember it getting raves and it’s just not that awesome.

Go discuss “Restless” over in Kate’s journal.

Comments

[pardalis05.livejournal.com]

Here's to the Bra-less among us! Hear, hear!

btw, I have been reading along these last few weeks; just haven't thought of anything to comment in a while.

Hope you're having a good summer.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

*grins* I'm beginning to think i should make a poll of some sort.

And thanks; it's always nice to hear people are in fact reading even when they don't have comments. (I know i read everyone on my f'list and definitely don't comment on every entry.)

[moxiemuse.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I'm surprised you can go around without wearing a bra. I'm much, much less well-endowed than you, but they just start to ache if not supported. And if I don't wear a sports bra while working out, I feel like I'm going to knock my teeth out. :-D Check into custom-made bras, if you can't find any that fit. Expensive, yeah, but a well-made bra is heaven.

The Tiffany's necklace is nice. The lowercase "L" is just a bigger loop than you "E". -_- Oh well. I don't wear that kind of jewelery anyway. I'm so hard on everything I wear, I'd just break it.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I started getting lazy around 7th grade, at which time i think i was still like an A cup (which is part of the reason why it's weird to think of myself as the size i actually am) so it's entirely possible that there's something to that theory that if you don't wear a bra you build up muscle there, but really i have no idea how it works and am mostly just grateful -- being cheap and lazy as i am -- that i don't need to wear a bra. Two of my friends are about the same size i am (though i think of one as being smaller than me and one as being larger than me, further proof that i have no sense of the size of other people in proportion to myself) and both claim it hurts to not wear a bra.

I would probably be investing in sports bras if i did real running or other such activity, but given my sedentary lifestyle the bounce thing isn't a real issue for me.

I like some jewelry, but this one feels stupid to me, and anyone who spends more than $20 on a piece of jewelry for me is just not thinking. (This whole line of pendants confuses me. The "c" looks like an "e" 'cause it needs that loop to hang, and the "r" looks like it should be some sort of mathematical symbol, and so on. Somehow cursive lowercase letters never screamed "exciting and attractive pendant option" to me.)

[hedy.livejournal.com]

You could always ebay the necklace, or get a Tiffany's gift card and ebay that.

I'm touched that you liked by card (I was looking for a gay card, but aparently Hallmark in Braintree has not deemed that gay market, unlike Latinos, Blacks or Jews, is worthy of its own cards. However, I think the Elders would not have appreciated it.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i'm seriously considering ebay-ing the necklace. I don't really have E-name friends (not that i think this pendant looks like an "e" anyway) but it did occur to me that Emma might want it, so i'm gonna run the idea by her first.

Would have been interesting to see the reaction of the Elders to a gay card :)

P.S. Last night my mom read your "I'm house-broken, etc." comment and cracked up laughing.

[hedy.livejournal.com]

You could also try selling it (or I could sell it for you) on some of the rich-girl, designer fashion lj communities

[diadeloro.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your party went well. Sorry I could not attend; I had to work :(

Are you going to mention me in your novel? I think you should. I'm pretty cool :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I too am sorry you could not attend. We still have the rest of the summer in which to manage to get together, though.

If i ever do write a novel it's likely that i'll be able to point out exactly where i drew from people i knew. Not gonna make any promises of inclusion in a novel i haven't actually started yet, yhough :)