Red-Handed Jill

You should try looking in the SF Bay Area if you want to see expensive housing. You couldn't get a condo for three or four hundred thousand up thisaway.

Nothing as in what? Oftentimes it takes longer than a year to either make the job into something you like or to manoever to a job that fits more of what you want. Are there no opportunities where you work now?

emasculate

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fruit cocktail

My point as well. I never meant that the ships were teeming with women disguised as men; I meant, as with many things, that there were more than were documented. I don't think there were lots of disguised women at sea during the GAOP or afterwards, with the additional hardship and stress of disguising oneself added to the hardships of being a sailor, but I think it's a safe bet that a number of women were able to pull it off and were successful - meaning we wouldn't have read about them being WOMEN at sea. In the case of Mary Read, from the accounts I read, she went undetected at first. The man she challenged was apparently unaware she was a woman - that could have prompted the story of her baring her breasts at him after she had him down and close to death. And in terms of my own experience being a woman who has done a number of jobs that were considered masculine, I can tell you that back in the day when I cleaned sewers and storm drains (using a Vactor - you've probably seen them: large trucks with tanks on the back and hoses on the tops) oftentimes, I was mistaken for a young man, even though I was 5'4" (163 cm) tall and weighed 110 lbs (50 kg). The fact that I wore a yellow rubberized jumper and coat which disguised my figure may have been a factor, but I think a lot of it was that people were just expecting me to be a man.

harmony

Bet it feels great to have that out of the way. How are you doing, though?

unruly

Only if you go there strictly for the articles.

They'd need to dress up?? Looks like they already have the mindless zombie thing going for them already!

stars

Italian suppository

I'll be keeping you and yours in my thoughts as well. I've been through this with close family as well, so know how tough it can be.

Damn - don't they have anything better to do??? Bunch of narrow-minded busybodies!

Toxic Avenger

Hi-Fi

Putting together a demo CD for the Bloody Scupper Plunder Club (my group), making a plethora of slops, breeches, corsets and shirts (gotta expand that piratical wardrobe) and helping to build cannons (Jack's project - he's making a battery of four). I'm sure there are more projects; I just can't think of them.

cloth

Wow - I wonder if you were really floating, then??? When I was a kid, I would dream about soaring through the air. As I got older, those dreams happened less and less - either I couldn't get off the ground, could get off the ground only with serious effort, or there had to be a huge reason why I had to be off the ground. I'm told that's fairly common. Yours definitely sounds unusual, though.

That's a heck of a burden to face alone, Siren! If your husband won't listen to you, then post 'em here. Get them out of your system. I have prophetic dreams, but other than the Apollo One disaster, they weren't about really bad things. Not like yours.

stake

That is SO cool - why can't they have ads like this in the US??

Mine are a mixed bag. Some are prophetic, some are wonderful "adventure" dreams that I don't want to end, some are scary (like Sir Eric's things that want to break into the house), some are so surreal that I don't know what they were about, some are anxious and some are so irritating that I wake up extremely pissed off. Probably just like most folks. One area where I seem to be unique is I've never had that dream where it's test time and I'm not ready. One dream that I used to have more often but not so much now was trying to find a bathroom or someplace to change (i.e. somewhere where I could have some privacy) but every place was either not suitable, occupied or when I'd find a place, someone would rudely barge in. Do any of you still have the "flying" dreams?

Pyrat Pistol