what’s expected July 2, 2008
I had a funny experence today.
I met someone for the first time at a meeting today - someone I’d heard a lot about over the years. She had also read some of my writing and heard about me from here and there, but we had never met in person.
At the mtg, I was wearing some black slingback pumps, and this black Prada knockoff shift dress just bought. No make-up. Still working toward my Gwyneth-Paltrow-in-the-move-Sliding-Doors-haircut hair.
After she and I had chatted for a whle, she told me I wasn’t at all what she expected.
“I thought you would have long hair and birkenstocks and be all sort of earthy crunchy and stuff.”
II laughed, and told her that after a brief flirtation with some birkenstock wearing in the early 90s, I now have a moral opposition to birkenstocks and crocs and anything resembling such shoes on my feet (go for it if you love them - they just aren’t for me). They make my feet look all….hobbit-ey.
I found t really funny that - at least to one person - I have a very different “written persona” than I actually am in person.
It was a fun meeting, actually.
LOVE my Crocs
I too have a much different appearance then my very crunchy work, and liberal pov.
Clients are always shocked that I don’t look like a 60’s flashback! :-)>
When I first stared reading your blog I loved that you talked about shopping, clothes, good haircuts, and celebrity fluff. All that makes the misery in the world news manageable when you incorporate some fluff and pretty in your life.
I will confess I do own crocs. I only wear them while walking the dog.
Maybe going food shooping once in a while!