Yeep!

[geminigirl]

My boss is out today (this was anticipated-she wasn't well yesterday and was having some family stuff going on) and now I've just been asked to sit in on a meeting with the executive director in her stead. (This is okay, although it does induce a bit of nerves.) But, I figured, I'd throw my ratty jeans on (the ones I really shouldn't wear to work, but did anyway today) because my boss is out, and I've got a group this afternoon. Blech. Now I have to go to reasonably important meeting and I look like a scrub.

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[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

No time to zip home during lunch and change? Eeks, good luck!

[geminigirl]

Unfortunatly no...I need the prep time that would be lunch to get ready for group this afternoon.
It would be the day I wear ratty jeans....not unwearable, just frayed at the bottom.

[tigerfemme.livejournal.com]

You'll be ok...no one will see (or focus on) the frayed hems if you're going to be sitting around a table! And if you're not sitting around a table - still, please don't worry, people really don't notice all the things we fear that they notice. People likely know you were called to be in this meeting because of an emergency, no?

[geminigirl]

Oh, I'm sure you're right. But appearances are so important sometimes, and even though everyone here knows that I was called in because it's an emergency, and that I show up in jeans when I've got groups during the work day, and that I can do a good job at what I'm supposed to be doing, it still comes down to my mother's voice in my head about making a good impression.

It's like wearing clean underwear in case you get hit by a car.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Y'know... every time I injure myself badly enough to warrant a trip to the ER, I'm always in desperate need of bathing. My hair will inevitably be looking like one big crow's nest, and I'm half dressed.

This is why I assume there is a god.

[geminigirl]

It's that whole thing about clean underwear just in case you get hit by a car. I mean it. It must be...it's just that now I'm finally old enough to understand the significance of clean underwear in the universe.