Onward and UPSward

Today was my first day as a "man in brown, oh wait, I'm sorry, woman in brown" as I was identified this afternoon by a woman explaining to her friend on the phone who she was opening the door for. After three days of being on call not getting called in to work, this seemed to be turning into just another non-job. But today I got the call. One of Santa's other elves hadn't shown up for work. I put on my brown UPS shirt, brown UPS pants, brown UPS pullover, and brown hiking boots. Waiting for the brown UPS truck to pick me up, I grabbed a purple pen off the dining room table thinking it would be good to have a pen, looked at it and saw it said "Queering femininity Seattle 2005" and decided maybe I'd find a different one to use on my first day of work.