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What is your party personality? Upon entering a social gathering, do you quickly find yourself surrounded by adoring fans as you fall into a story about your hilariously bad work week ? Or do you immediately head toward the drink table, the bathroom, or, if need be, any piece of furniture that can shield you from view? Anything to avoid human contact .  Bangalore- based illustrator Neethi identifies as the latter. “I’ve grown into a 27-year old who looks for benches to crawl under, or curtains to hide behind at events involving more than three people,” she explains on her website. “Every brave new venture with people goes down in the same way ― a cyclical uneasiness resulting in sweat and silent tears rolling down the cheek.” In her series of illustrated GIFs titled “The Socially Awkward Adult ,” Neethi explores the peculiarities of life as a grown woman who still, when confronted with the possibility of group socializing, feels the urge to run ― or at least awkwardly mention that ...

Chelsea Bolan Snow.  The first of the year.  I pull on my boots and coat, walk through the streets made suddenly unfamiliar and find, with my toes, that particular edge where the road gives way to path.  The path leads up from the village and into the countryside.  Farmland curves around hills like a blanket, hemmed in by thick, black forest.  Then I am there, at the field, at that particular, unmarked corner where I used to meet him in the evenings.  Now the corner is defined by a private owner’s fence, which stretches all around the long, white plain.  The fence is new, raw wood.  I put my boot on one rung and then the other, and for a few seconds before I leap I balance on the topmost beam, arms out. I walk towards the forest, now a protected region, and in the forest there is a place we were never allowed before.  Through the trees there is a little valley with a stream wending its way riverward the way it has always done, carrying anything that lands in its waters to the Vltava. ...

Design May 31, 2017   Share To create a winning master bath with limited square footage , assess the space, identify the client’s functional, aesthetic and stylistic preferences, and focus on incorporating unique and spectacular design details . authors Ellen Cheever   All too often, designers across the country tell me that, when offered a master bathroom project , the clients’ dream of an adult oasis is limited by the existing bathroom space and their unrealistic budget. While this may be the reality we all face with our “post Great Recession” clientele, let me suggest you not spend your energy complaining…but be energized by the challenge presented to you. Several strategies can help you create an exciting solution for a master bath space that must be completed within the confines of the available square footage . And, while they may not all fit within the client’s budget, these strategies will at least help you justify a recommendation to increase the initial budget! While the...