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[vicarz]

Am I gay because I'm so excited about my new shoes, or straight because these are them? Technically they're mesh running shoes for overpronated runners, but as you see they're also mostly black. I will be wearing them in the club on nights I wear sneakers to the club. I experimented with them yesterday, and they are both very comfortable and airy enough to not be a liability in terms of stinky-feet. I thought maybe I could get away with them at work, where I already just wear khakis and a mock turtleneck. Nobody noticed, and at prompting it took a minute to notice I wasn't wearing business casual shoes - so these are my new work shoes. It's like barefoot, only slightly less tacky.

I work out like mad to make my body functional and pretty, but then dress in rags. I know people like good dressers, but I don't think I care about someone who cares about outfits. I mean slut clothes I understand, because ultimately the showcase is the body, and t-shirt statements may reflect the wearer a bit - but when someone thinks I'm hot in a suit it just creeps me out. If you like that, cool, but it's not me. I refuse to wear certain clothes just because others like them. Somehow the shallow at the costume level creeps me out, while shallow like my body does not.

So it seems normal people, or my friends, really do get home from work, eat, watch tv, and go to bed. For 2-6 hours. It just feels weird. I don't think I'm going to do that - I'm going to sip decaf in murky, hit movies, drink, eat out, work out a good long time, and sometimes chore or bum around the house. I guess you get used to it, but after all those years of school, then months of hospital crap, it seems bizarre to just rest for 4-6 hours a day. Of course, I don't read much - it still feels like work or what you do when there is nothing else to do. I don't have any burning wanna reads right now.

For Dawn:
The janitor passed by today, and bypassed my trick of avoiding conversation by putting my trashcan outside the cube (that's right - 6 figures but I work in an open cube) He hollered to start a conversation by saying "Do you have HD TV?" Short version - I ripped him a new one for thinking because he happened into a grand that he should blow it on a luxury when he's some poor schmuck who empties trash cans for a living. I left him with "Well hey, if it makes you happy then do what you want, but as an attorney who isn't buying a fancy new tv - I'd really think about other bills that need paying before I blew a grand on a TV." I don't think he'll try starting conversations with me for at least a week!

I busted my whiny coworker again today. She, like many of my 6-figure coworkers, has spent over 4 hours trying to pass the mandatory computer security training crap at the last minute (so it's slow as everyone is on the same site). Even though I told them how to cheat, they keep messing up, failing to print, failing to save, and crashing their systems as they grow impatient and repeatedly click on links after already having clicked...
She noted "My stuff wasn't saved so I have to do it again."
So you didn't save it?
"The computer didn't save it."
So you didn't save it?
"It wasn't saved even though I did it. I did it, it just wouldn't print and when I went back in it wasn't saved."
Oh, so you exited without saving it?
"I didn't exit it, but it wasn't printing so I had to try and print it but..."
Why don't you just say it like it is? Why don't you just admit "I didn't save it," or "I made a mistake," or "Wow I really fucked up by waiting for the last minute when the original message specifically warned that if you waited to the last minute that the system would overload and run slowly?" Who do you think you're fooling by trying that passive voice thing? You either did something, or failed to do something, that caused this. You did that. It didn't just happen out there in the stratosphere - you did it, or you failed to do it. Take responsibility for your actions and the consequences thereof!
Lawyers are a bitch to work with. Or maybe that's just me.

Comments

[bentrazor.livejournal.com]

I run into the same thing, when I put on a suit or dress up for something. People tell me something to the effect of "Wow, you clean up well" I tell them "Yes, I know." sometimes it's followed by "You should do it more often" which I am confused by. Why the fuck would I wear a suit if I didn't have to? I can suck my stomach in and puff out my chest to appear bigger, but I'm not going to do that all the time either.

[coronalrain.livejournal.com]

Niiiice. Maybe I will try that next time

mileage, varying

[minniethemoocha.livejournal.com]

In limited contexts, suits are kindo fetishy for me, but not in an overtly sexual way. I find it pleasantly exotic when someone someone familiar and attractive who normally doesn't dress in "straight" attire wears well-made business drag. "Well-made" is key here. Naturally the effect only works provided the whole thing is cut well, fits, is the right colors for the person wearing it, and so forth.

To clarify, I don't really dig suits in general on men or women, especially boring or cheap ones, and it's not as if I get turned on walking down K Street. Also, I would never expect anyone to dress in a way that made them uncomfortable just to give me eye candy.

Re: mileage, varying

[vicar.livejournal.com]

See, for a partner I would wear silly things.

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

I keep suggesting to Oscar that he buy a nice, sharp suit. Suits can look very nice if they've got some style to them. His line is he only wears suits because he has to, for work, so he doesn't care that they're style-less hand-me-downs, he just HAS to wear them. I think, if you have to wear one, may as well wear one that looks nice and has a bit of personal touch to it.

Then again, I'm the one sitting here at work in trousers with safety pins all over, a long sleeved Convergence T-shirt and New Rocks...