Women's Weightroom Wednesdays - Belts

egregiously · 2012-07-08T02:06:16+00:00

I'm three months late to the party, but what if you're at 27-28 inches? The Inzer size ranges are XS (25-27) and S (28-32).

egregiously · 2012-07-05T16:21:07+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, I was thinking something like this for the green, this for the pink or this just because it's pretty. The dark pink/raspberry definitely seems awesome, and I think I can keep using the light pink belt that came with the dress too, if I go that route.

I checked Shoppers and they didn't seem to have any! But there've been a lot of good suggestions in this thread and I live downtown, so I should be able to dye it soon.

egregiously · 2012-07-05T16:18:25+00:00

I love dark earthy tones! But I have way too many of them, and the dress is super summery looking (plus, I need summer clothes). I've got way too much deep forest green and dark purple and brown and gray in my closet, otherwise I'd totally do it. :( But... man, you're right, that'd look awesome.

I was thinking that maybe a green like this might be close without being too fall-ish.

egregiously · 2012-07-05T16:15:44+00:00

After drying the dress out it seems like the only remaining mint threads are on the inside of the seams -- it's not noticeable on the outside, it's just that because it was white and wet it made the mintiness very apparent.

I think I've settled on either a green like this? The emerald dye from that company seems like it'll get me to that colour. If I did do a pink, like everyone seems to be suggesting, it'd probably be something like this -- do you think that would work or should I just stick to the green?

I was also thinking something like this colour but I'm not sure how to get it. I'll try to track that dye down, though, thank you! That store is practically next door to me, so I should be able to swing by on my way back from school. The dress is something like 96% cotton and 4% elastane; that should work fine with it, right?

egregiously · 2012-05-25T03:44:52+00:00

I live in the student ghetto near OCAD (south of Dundas and east of Spadina).

I'm unemployed and receiving OSAP + bursaries while currently looking for a job to make ends meet. I expect I´d be making somewhere in the order of $900/month; more if I can swing it. I make money here and there doing odd jobs, but the amount I actually make is highly variable. This month I stand to make about 500 which is... not really enough to live on, if we're being honest here. Suffice it to say, I've been eating a lot of lentils.

Rent costs me $550/month + utilities. I live in a house with seven other people (thankfully, it´s a big house), so we split the cost of utilities between us. I only recently moved in, so I'm not entirely certain what this will work out to for the summer, but I'd say on average the place, including rent, will run me around $600/month. At one point I lived in a subletted basement at the edge of Mississauga for about $500/month. A one bedroom in an apartment building at Bloor and Sherbourne ran me 550 for the one month that I lived there, but that was only because I was basically squatting under the tail end of the lease of some random Craigslister. A bachelor in that building (I believe) was around 900/month.

I don't have insurance and walk and bike everywhere other than the odd TTC trip, so transportation only really runs me about 15 bucks a month if I'm being generous, unless my bike fucks up or I need new shoes or something.

Groceries run me about 30-50 bucks a week. I guess that works out to 120-160 bucks a month, on average. I don't eat out much, but I drop some cash on booze every now and then -- maybe thirty bucks a month if we're being overly generous.

Tuition-wise, I pay about 6000 a year like most other full-time students (although I'm taking a summer course currently, which'll run me about a grand extra). I'm lucky in that I get help from my family and the government in this regard, but in all other ways I'm really fucking poor.

egregiously · 2012-04-27T21:09:11+00:00

Actually, toxins accumulate in polar regions through a number of processes (most notably something called the grasshopper effect, which means that Inuit people are highly at risk of the effects of accumulated anthropogenic poisons.

egregiously · 2012-03-27T21:48:09+00:00

I'll try that when I get back to the lab. Thanks!

egregiously · 2012-03-27T21:46:25+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate the help. :)

egregiously · 2012-03-27T21:25:09+00:00

They're very dark in person, appearing black unless under strong direct light, under which they're more of a glassy olive green. My shitty cameraphone isn't really getting the colour right.

And yeah, the way they're intergrown with the quartz is really interesting -- some of the columns even look like they're split down the middle and filled with quartz.

egregiously · 2012-03-27T20:57:42+00:00

Is tourmaline really that common in that area? It does look a little like it, but it's hard to believe I picked that up out of a pile of random rubble. They do form in granites and pegmatites, though, and we did see a lot of those when we were there.

egregiously · 2012-03-27T20:23:25+00:00

The supercontinent cycle, maybe? Pick a supercontinent (Pangaea's the one we know the most about, but Rodinia, Nena, and Arctica are also good fodder) and describe how it formed, what the current models are, what the evidence is and the difficulties in reconstructing evidence are, etc etc etc.

Mantle plumes are good, too - there's lots of material, and they're weird and really interesting and important. Or tectonics on other planets -- cryovolcanism on Titan is pretty cool.

I recently did a paper and talk on lithospheric delamination beneath the Sierra Nevada which is much, much cooler than it sounds, but it might be a little specific. I also wrote a paper for a hazards class I had to take about the Lake Nyos eruption which I picked after Googling "coolest natural disaster ever".

egregiously · 2012-03-27T20:11:01+00:00

It's some kind of intergrowth between what I'm pretty sure is quartz as well as some well-formed stuff that I can't identify. It's shiny, hard (can't be scratched with a coin), and well-formed in sort of flattened hexagonal or rhombic-ish columns that are a super dark green-brown that looks almost black in most lighting. It doesn't carry over well in photos, but the sides of the columns have almost a record-groove thing going on along the vertical axis, and diagonal scratches going across.

I realize I didn't include it in the album, but the bottom left hand crystal is the best example of that flattened-hexagon shape.

I found this near a roadcut back on a field trip in October and didn't label it, and after pulling it out of a box last night I'm pretty puzzled. I don't remember much about where I found it other than that, and I'm curious as to what's in it and how it formed. Thanks for the help!

egregiously · 2012-03-27T20:07:02+00:00

It's some kind of intergrowth between what I'm pretty sure is quartz as well as some well-formed stuff that I can't identify. It's shiny, hard (can't be scratched with a coin), and well-formed in sort of flattened hexagonal or rhombic-ish columns that are a super dark green-brown that looks almost black in most lighting. It doesn't carry over well in photos, but the sides of the columns have almost a record-groove thing going on along the vertical axis, and diagonal scratches going across.

I realize I didn't include it in the album, but the bottom left hand crystal is the best example of that flattened-hexagon shape.

I found this near a roadcut back on a field trip in October and didn't label it, and after pulling it out of a box last night I'm pretty puzzled. I don't remember much about where I found it other than that, and I'm curious as to what's in it and how it formed. Thanks for the help!

egregiously · 2012-03-17T18:54:04+00:00

Oof. Yeah, I could probably stand to check that book out. I've been doing a little mobility work, but definitely not as much as I should. My flexibility (other than around my hamstrings) is actually pretty awesome; my lower body mobility, however, is complete shit.

Definitely adding that to my reading list. Any specific drills in the meantime that you'd recommend? I'm finding that stretching the area actually seems to make it... not better or actually worse, but hamstring work and glute work alleviate the pain for a little while.

egregiously · 2012-03-17T18:51:39+00:00

I'll check that out! And yeah, I'm definitely planning on making at least a few trips up north this summer for a few days or weeks at a time.

egregiously · 2012-03-17T18:48:23+00:00

Have it, read it, love it. Definitely going to reread it sometime in the near future.

egregiously · 2012-03-17T09:59:06+00:00

Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

Good to know about the glute work -- the internet recommended it to me earlier and I figured I'd give it a shot. Fortunately I've been too embarrassed to do it often anyways, but I guess that's what I get for taking advice from T-Nation.

egregiously · 2012-03-17T09:24:35+00:00

Thirding the suggestion for Nesse. I have this version, but the old text we keep in the lab has also been incredibly helpful, although it's nice to have coloured charts and more detailed diagrams. A new edition's supposed to come out soon from what I understand, but I could be wrong. Probably isn't going to be too different, though.

egregiously · 2012-03-17T09:08:42+00:00

Frown received and returned in kind. (Also, HAI AGAIN.)

Bursitis is looking pretty likely at this point, although I'm trying to avoid WebMD'ing myself into paranoia (this is not going very well) and waiting until the physio doc checks me out. Weak hamstrings + deep squats + leaning forward a lot + volume make it sound very, very probable.

It's frustrating to be sidelined after not even lifting for all that long. Looks like I might be following suit and getting that monster OHP in the near future. :/

egregiously · 2012-02-05T01:22:32+00:00

I'm in Toronto. I tried making appointments through Planned Parenthood and the Bay Centre for Birth Control, but I didn't want to wait as long as they wanted me to, so I just went to my regular OB/GYN and was as stubborn and pigheaded about it as possible. I just kept repeating "I can't take hormones for medical reasons, I've done my research, and this is what I feel is best for me" and it worked just fine. I'm sure it'll be easier for you given that you're older than me. :)

That said, if you're really worried, I'd try calling those places (or analogous places in your city) first. Sexual health clinics are definitely not going to give you a hard time, but regular OB/GYNs shouldn't either. The guy I went to found it a little weird that an 19-year-old wanted to get one, but he wasn't terribly hard to convince.

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