Posts tagged with "fashion"

Usually It's Dress Shirts And Sweaters

From one of my inside sources, I found out that the hir­ing freeze at the old gov­ern­ment job might be on hia­tus and they’re look­ing to fill some CS‑2 posi­tions. Aaron and I con­tact­ed our old employ­ers to get togeth­er for some lunch tomor­row, and they end­ed up mak­ing reser­va­tions for 14 at the Mayflower. Aaron and I both know that this could be an impor­tant lunch, so we’ll be putting on the prep­py clothes. We actu­al­ly had to dis­cuss what we’d be wear­ing, since we dress so sim­i­lar­ly.

Like Toothpick Wrappers

Finally found some sweet pants, 28 28 29. They all need to be short­ened of course, one of the hid­den fees that always comes with my pants pur­chas­es and chick­en legs, but oth­er­wise they’re per­fect. I even found com­fort­able jeans that are wide enough at the foot. Orleans is a gold mine of mens cloth­ing.

Cause My Legs Are Like Toothpicks

On a good day I can find two pairs of pants that I want to try on. Today I found five, and none were right. Either they did­n’t fit, or the cut end­ed up dif­fer­ent when I actu­al­ly put them on. Why is it so hard for me to find pants? Nice, durable yet com­fort­able, bag­gy yet fits around my waist, wide-leg, plain-look­ing pants.

Talking to the Walls

Why do I write? Mostly because I feel like it. I can’t write with a pen because a com­put­er allows me to orga­nize my thoughts much bet­ter. I choose to pub­lish my thoughts online. Yet I don’t write for an audi­ence, I don’t care who reads, I don’t know who’s inter­est­ed.

Does it take a read­er to val­i­date my thoughts? Not quite. I doubt I’d feel as good as I do after post­ing an entry if I just typed it in a text file and saved it on my hard dri­ve. Everything I write is post­ed and made pub­lic. So why do I post if it does­n’t mat­ter whether some­one reads or not?

It’s the act of pub­lish­ing that makes me feel val­i­dat­ed, not the belief that some­one will read it. My sat­is­fac­tion comes from self-expres­sion, not pop­u­lar­i­ty.

This is sim­i­lar to my style of dress. The clothes I wear are a reflec­tion of my mood, even though I don’t think any­one takes notice or actu­al­ly cares.

An exer­cise in expres­sion is its own reward.