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Comment on Down With Casual Fridays by Lars

Lars — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:08:12 +0000

So if a company is able to have one day that is casual, why can’t it have every day that is casual? I just don’t get it.

Comment on Down With Casual Fridays by anne

anne — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:08:23 +0000

I am not understanding what you are saying - that it is NOT okay to wear jeans on Friday to work. Why not???
Do you like wearing skirts and hose and heels all of the time? I would like to wear jeans every day to work. It is nice that we get to wear jeans - at least every once in a while. And yes - workplaces dictate what you can and can not wear. They say that men must wear suits and ties and women must wear dresses or skirts and hose.
And yes, we have choices and choose not to work in that kind of environment - but jobs are hard to come by and a dress-up work place may be the only option.
Does that really make someone work better - to be uncomfortable? I am not advocating sloppy clothes or jeans - I just like to be comfortable while I am working, and jeans are more comfortable than heels and hose and skirts/dresses.
The idea is not to institute fun - the idea is that the work place recognizes the need for employees to be more comfortable and relaxed every once in a while. I feel so sorry for businessmen in the summer - wearing their suits and ties. There was a former city manager in San Antonio who was known for shedding the suit and tie image for a guayabera shirt, and he was still a respected and well liked businessman despite his ‘casual’ look. San Antonio is HOT in the summer - he was just dressing comfortably, not dressing that way to have fun.

Comment on Down With Casual Fridays by Mike

Mike — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:50:50 +0000

“What, you didn’t IRON your jeans? You realize this is a PROFESSIONAL work environment, don’t you?”

The following Friday…

“Oh, so now I see you’re just flaunting your flagrant disregard for the entire office! In my office!”
(consequence of wearing my usual slacks/button-down/tie monkey suit)

Comment on Down With Casual Fridays by Pam

Pam — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:59:46 +0000

Every day is a Casual Friday in my book!

Comment on Prada, Marfa and Talking to Chickens by ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:53:49 +0000

Oh, yes, I hate to brag — but we were in Wichita Falls for the tornado of 1958. Our mother dragged my sister and me into the bathtub to protect us. The whole experience left me with a fear of bathtubs and my sister with an obsession with tornado sirens. We still have photos of her standing proudly in front of the sirens, but none of me in bathtubs. Wichita Falls can have that kind of effect on you.

Comment on Prada, Marfa and Talking to Chickens by the blogger

the blogger — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:04:14 +0000

I had no idea you lived in Wichita Falls! I lived there for 4 very long years (high school, which are long years anyway, no matter where you live). And I was born in Graham, 60 miles south of W.F. As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls. And yes, that landscape is a killer, even though one might long for it a little bit from Madison Ave. If one had spent a lot of time there. And one did not have to live there ever again. Which would drive one insane.

I do love the landscape around Van Horn, and dream about it now and then, so I’ve enjoyed your Marfa posts (and not just because I can hear your husband’s cackle with his laser pointer). The one good thing I have to say about Pecos: cantaloupe.

Comment on The Marfa Lights We Didn’t See by ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:44:14 +0000

Well, as usual, I saved him from himself.

Comment on The Marfa Lights We Didn’t See by rachelbirds

rachelbirds — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:02:47 +0000

Your husband’s lucky
he left with laser intact –
ghost hunters aren’t kind.

Rachel
thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com

Comment on The Marfa Lights We Didn’t See by Sophie

Sophie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:07:03 +0000

I believe that’s considered a hanging crime ’round those parts.

Comment on See It On the Big Screen by ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:29:09 +0000

These are all excellent ideas. Also, we’d have to get rid of that old-fashioned song they insist on playing — and all that unhealthy smoking would definitely have to go. But who would direct?