tiniest marriage announcement EVER

Printing marriage announcements (the cartoon is by my little sister), and Wax accidentally printed Test #3 13 millimeters high instead of thirteen centimeters. That little square of text next to the 20 Euro coin for scale is it.

LOL.

Dr Martens Diva "Regina" wingtip & Draven "Devotion" wedge

Two of my favorite things: shoes and linguistics

languagelog_feed just posted on The Communicative Properties of Footwear, linking two not-funny Cathy strips about the "language of shoes" to scholarly projects that actually are about the language of shoes. You'll find links to a website and a few individual scientific papers there:

• A small study using US graduate students tested perceptions of female physicians using transcripts of an outpatient interview either with or without a photograph of the female physician wearing conservative vs. trendy boots. (That study found no statistically significant effect of footwear on approachability, professional image, ability to empathize with the patient, or amount of specialist experience; but they did find a "near-significant" effect on approachability, with "trendy" boots being less approachable.)



• A British study found university students' "free response" to female airline attendants' footwear favored safer, practical styles - like aviation safety guidelines but unlike the styles prescribed by airline corporate policies (according to the abstract).

One of my favorite books to browse through when I was home alone and feeling nervous (I was home sick a fair amount, and the library is one of the sunniest rooms in my parents' house; I felt safe curled up in the bed there, since it doubled as a guest bedroom for much of my childhood) was The Language of Clothes, a nonfiction sociolinguistics book about fashion written in I guess the 80s or 90s. My mom had probably got it used somewhere since it isn't quite her usual cup of tea.

déjà food

Here is my Real Cowboy Uncle, Bruce, holding up a plate of delicious hamburgers and fries from my Uncle Joe's favorite microbrewery restaurant in Lawrence, Kansas (behind him is my dad's red checked shirt). Wax and I shared a black bean burger that was incredibly delicious and I wasn't even able to finish my half, and still didn't have room for dessert.



I am dying to go back to this restaurant. ;_; AMERICAN FOOOOOOOD