I wanted to make the whole blog green. Because that's how you celebrate St. Patrick's Day-- by making random un-green things temporarily green. When we were little it was the mashed potatoes in the cafeteria at lunch and now it's the beer in the keg at happy hour. But it turned out to be much more of a pain than I anticipated to change the color of the whole thing so you will just have to imagine that when you loaded my blog today-- SURPRISE! It's GREEN! HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! Anyway, my cubicle neighbor just commented on my lack of St. Patrick's Day spirit as evidenced by my blue-and-white plaid shirt and jeans, but I pointed out that his olive cargo pants, while they are technically a shade of green, are not exactly a GREEN "HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY" green. I figure if you're not wearing something that is obviously green for the sake of being green then what's the point? For example, I still am not completely sure whether aforementioned co-worker was attempting to be festive or whether those pants were next in the rotation.I always feel kind of lame when halfway through the day I realize that I just happen to be wearing an article of clothing that nominally fits the holiday color scheme because then it doesn't look like you forgot or didn't care-- it looks like that's the best you could do. That hasn't happened to me in a while, but interestingly enough I had an exactly opposite experience just the other day when I got to work and realized that to the objective observer it looked like I was all decked out to celebrate Carrot Day (yeah, I don't know either, but for what holiday would you wear lots of orange and a bright green vest?).
It's a lovely day for a Guinness.
4 comments:
totally know how you feel... i'm coincidentally wearing a blueish-greenish shirt today... also, i just noticed that i can change my posting name to anything i want. so it looks like you have TONS of readers, cecil. :)
I just checked the blog, so I missed 'all this', but what I would have said was 'Im wearing a green sweatshirt, shirt, pants, socks, shoes and jewelery. (thats right, ALL green) i am feeling ridiculous b/c the other chick who would dress up with me was fired... there are a few people with green shirts or something, but come on, whats the point?'
it reminded me of when I did that 'experiement' in HS about whether the color you wore affected your mood and I did the yellow dress with yellow tights.... sigh. at least people then noticed. i feel like everyone at work is unaware, me included. how can you be aware when you stare at a computer for 8 hrs?
haha, actually, writing this reminded me of your "experiment" . . . and your theme parties.
"at least people then noticed." ...noticed? laura, we gave you AWARDS for that creative dressing. :)
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