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August 18, 1998
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As reader's may have noticed, last night's entry finally made it up onto the web site this afternoon now that world.std.com seems to have recovered from its upgrade. So, world is back up and the rain stopped and I'm in a much better mood having just returned from therapy. It is still beastly hot and unbearably humid and I am still not model-gorgeous. I am currently wearing light blue shorts and a plain black t-shirt - still no socks or shoes. I am experiencing no further inclination to wear a little black dress at my keyboard. I've had coffee and a healthy lunch from the Earth Food Store. A flock of house sparrows just flew across the parking lot very close to my window. If I pulled the shade I could work naked but I wouldn't get to see the house sparrows. A trade-off. I just walked into my bedroom to turn on the radio and change t-shirts. While I was doing that, there was one huge thunderclap and the rains descended again with great force. I wouldn't mind but it is still unbearably humid. The local pigeon flock just wheeled by in the rain looking gray and bedraggled. The rain intensified a minute or two ago and it is now a deluge. The radio is tuned to NPR and for once they are not talking about Clinton-Lewinsky. Nope. They're talking about the experience of religious conversion. It's cooler in my bedroom and I'm fascinated by religious experiences of any kind, but I must sit here by my computer on account of some compulsion I barely understand. I am typing with one hand. The other hand is shaking a bottle of carpet cleaner. The directions say "Shake container vigorously before each use" and I am very obedient. Richard Avedon can photograph me half-dressed with a keyboard in one hand and Resolve High Traffic Carpet Cleaning Granules in the other any time. Later on... I don't recommend working with any cleaning product packaged in granules when it's this humid! The carpet cleaner clung to the sides of the bottle and then came out in clumps not granules. I have however applied it and brushed it in. I now await its drying so that I may vacuum it up. This could take awhile. Meanwhile, the rain has stopped but the humidity hasn't. Still later... The carpet cleaner only partially removed the stains I've been working on. The next step is to get a different carpet cleaner from the same company (the "trigger" version instead of the granules) at least according to the package directions. The rain has stopped completely for at least awhile. The sky is deep deep pewter gray and the forecast is for more thunderstorms tonight. More on dressing for success... I was going to write that I don't care what Katrina Garnett wears to work, but after re-reading yesterday's entry I think I do care a little bit. I don't know what the male equivalent of the low-cut black dress is. I'm curious to know what men at CrossWorlds wear to work, though. I guess I'm an old fuddy duddy, 'cause I think dressing for a party or a night of clubbing is way different from dressing for work. The Constance Casey column I mentioned yesterday does claim it's not about the dress, but it begins and ends with the dress. I dunno. Those who know me in real life know I have two modes of dress: suits and jeans, nothing in between. I don't own a slinky black dress. If I were going to a fancy party I'd wear a suit. If I were going clubbing- well, I wouldn't be going clubbing,so I don't know what I'd wear. So I guess I'd look pretty silly at a party in a suit, but I like suits - what can I say? Now that I don't work in an office, I wear jeans (or shorts in the summer) most of the time. I wear the suits to weddings and funerals and the odd testimonial dinner just so they won't accumulate dust in the closet. But this isn't about me, or is it? I am very confused about what is acceptable workplace dress in the 1990's. I guess people don't wear bikinis to work. What about pajamas? Another question: do men dress differently to attract women at a party than they do to go to work? Meanwhile, I've taken another shower and changed shorts and t-shirt again. The current wardrobe is gray terry cloth shorts and a gray Toledo Mud Hens t-shirt. Bring on Richard Avedon! |
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