Fashion glee!

[icepixie]

I got a pretty skirt today. (I went for the black one. Liked the white a whole lot, but ultimately decided that black would be easier to find a top for, and lo and behold, the black blouse I bought yesterday goes very nicely with it.)

I'm in the process of getting together a week or so's worth of clothes I can wear to my job. The dress code is essentially no jeans/no t-shirts/don't be sloppy, except on Fridays, when jeans are allowed, so I have a lot of leeway, but...yeah, most of my clothing consists of, well, jeans and t-shirts. (And all my existing business-casual stuff is heavy and long-sleeved, because I got it for my internship at the Parthenon last January.) There's been some controversy over whether capri-style pants are allowed, so I'm going the skirt route until further notice. It is warm in that building, and in the print room, it can get up to 80F in the afternoons, so I'm trying to get clothing that's as lightweight as possible.

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Nearly 3,000 words so far on my Fraser and Thatcher go to the Yukon fic. I'm trying to do 300-400 words a day, minimum, again after falling off the bandwagon early this winter. Fell off the bandwagon on a lot of things this winter, actually; for a number of reasons, it was something of a winter of discontent. (Almost no writing, no interest in photography, lots of rejections from jobs I applied for...I got into a watching-lots-of-TV-and-sleeping rut. You might have noticed from the content of my LJ entries.) Spring has been good to me. I took pictures yesterday, for the first time since December. I'll upload them soon, so those of you still covered by snow can have a few flowers and budding trees to look at. *g*

I also have a new stuffed panda, which my mom got for free when she ordered something from this art store. They also gave her a really nice Chinese calligraphy set, again for free. It's really pretty, and has lots of little pieces to it. Neither of us really know what to do with it, but it's...nice to look at?

Comments

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

heh. i wear t-shirts with skull on it at work sometimes. And always jeans XD... which is good cause i'm not a skirt person.

[icepixie]

I like skirts, I just prefer to wear jeans. Take away the option of jeans, and I'm all over the skirts.

But I'm hoping that my next place of employment, wherever that should be, will let me wear jeans all the time. Not holding out a lot of hope, but...

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

I dunno if I've just been lucky with my job or not, but I can wear what I like up till this point XD, I suppose as long as it's not dangerous in the lab, I can wear it?

I have ugly knees/legs, so I stick to jeans, plus they have pockets where I can put keys, phone and wallet while I work. Oh and pens too :)

[icepixie]

Labs are much less strict than offices about dress code.

My legs are full of scars from old mosquito bites, but I don't let that bother me. ;) I do miss pockets on skirts, though. Then again, once my training is over, I'll be sitting at a desk all day, so I can put all the things I need in my purse and have it next to me, and it's just as accessible. What's truly irritating is the whole dress-pants-without-pockets-or-with-pockets-sewn-shut meme that's spreading throughout the clothing industry. Argh. So dumb.

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

Plus it's a university lab XD. But yeah where I had my internship, I also could wear what I liked... which usually had lots of pockets to put stuff in.