Mamarati

Austin was a good time. Makes me wish I’d made it to guide events past. It was really amazing meeting the folks I work with. We’re all sort of isolated not working in an office together…

Clothingwise, I’m glad I decided to just say screw it and wear jeans. Haha. Everyone else did, too, for the most part. One of the editors did have on one of those cute, tie-in-the-front shirts though, but it was very casual and I felt comfortable. I have a real deficiency in the area of personal fashion. I’m a bit like Gilda Radner who said:

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”

Boyfriend actually had to Google once about the apparent (to everyone else in the world but me) faux pas of wearing black and brown together. See, to me, those two colors look great together. It’s very soothing to me, in fact. Much better than say, black and white. That makes me think you’re a Mormon doing your door-to-door mission work or that you’re going to refresh my tea and ask me if I “saved any room for dessert.” Yet, there’s a whole store devoted to that color combo.

Whatever.

Gilda said something else, too:

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die — whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

Black and brown. That is my gloriously unique gift to the world.

Maybe not, but screw it. It’s just how I am and I’m not going to let it die just because I’m being forced to leave the house and play with my peers.

More later, time for school.