Ceci n'est pas une chaise verte.

From Miss Chez Shoes comes the following meme:

1. Go to Career Cruising
2. login: nycareers, password: landmark
3. Take the Career Matchmaker quiz and list the top 10 responses

Here's my top 10:

1. Fashion Designer
2. Sign Maker
3. Animator
4. Desktop Publisher
5. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
6. Costume Designer
7. Makeup Artist
8. Graphic Designer
9. Artist
10. Computer Animator

It's actually not that bad. My actual job is listed as #8. I find #7 pretty amusing seeing as how I don't wear make-up, but I suppose that doesn't mean I couldn't put it on other people...

We're having "purple day" at work next Friday, because our company color is, you guessed it - purple. So this means we should not only wear purple, but be creative in how we do so. Naturally, I'm on the hunt for purple shoes. A few years ago I actually had a pair of 10-eye purple Dr. Martens, but they were a bit on the small side, so I eventually got rid of them. Earlier today, I was regretting that decision, until I found these:

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There's a really nice girl who works in an area of the building near me, and she always says hi, but she thinks my name is Wendy. I don't have the heart to tell her it's Whitney. I never see her for more than a few seconds at a time, so I figure it's okay. Though, if someone eventually corrects her, that could be embarrassing...

However, I think this situation is marginally better than my sophomore year of high school when one of the peer counselors called me "Courtney" for about 2 months because I was too shy to correct him.

At least "Wendy" is close...

I have a job! A real job! No more contracting! I signed an offer on Friday!

Today is my first day of work as a real employee.
Now if I could just get rid of this badge that says "CONTRACTOR" in big red letters, I'd feel even better.

At work, my group is in their own little room, but we're next to the sales training team. Who do training. So they provide food for the trainees. Lots of food. Guess what they do with the leftovers? They put it in the kitchen. Free food for the taking!

About half an hour ago, there was stuffed french toast, sausage, and bacon. I am not kidding when I tell you that I RAN to the kitchen. Because, Hello! Bacon!

I'm going to gain 10 pounds while working here.

It's another edition of "The Shoes I Am Wearing Today".

ChunkChange

I found these first on a clearance rack at Macy's. The clerk couldn't find the mate to it in my size. So naturally, I went to the interwebs the first chance I got, and found them at zappos and online shoes. I ended up ordering this style (chunk change) and a similar style (slam chunk) that was more of a slide than a strappy sandal from online shoes.

Here's where I have to digress for a moment and say that online shoes may have better sales and prices sometimes, but are inferior to zappos in other ways. Shipping can sometimes take forever, and returns are not free. Exchanges are, but not returns.

The sandals I ordered? They took almost 2 weeks to get here. Regan ended up finding the same sandals at DSW for 40% off. So she bought them for me while she was there one night. If she hadn't done that, I wouldn't be wearing them today.

And I am indeed wearing them today, and they are comfortable! The sole is a little bit narrow, and that took some getting used to, but no feet pain what so ever. No pinching of the pinky toe, no heel pains, just comfortable feet. I think I have finally found sandals that are not too dressy, but not too casual. Hopefully they'll hold up for a summer or two.

I'm wearing heels today and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. They're a low heel, so it hasn't been that bad, but I still have back-up shoes in the car, just in case. I figured they'd be a good way to dress up the jeans I wore to work today, but something about them feels not quite right, which I think has more to do with me than the actual shoes...

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During a meeting with my co-workers last week, one of those "tell us something about yourself" questions came up. I blurted out that I liked shoes. "How many pairs do you have?" someone asked. I haven't counted my shoes since sometime in 2000 when I was cleaning out my closet in preparation for an impending move. At that time the count was somewhere near 60, give or take a few. Since then I've bought and purged many times, and haven't bothered to keep count. So my boss tasked everyone on my team with going home and counting their shoes.

I knew it would be a bit of a task, so I waited until the weekend. I also made sure Cyrus wasn't around, because I think his eyes would have popped out of his head when he saw this:

10:42am - I counted my shoes.

Regan and I went to see Grant Lee Phillips at the Great American Music Hall last night. Since we've both got the shutterbug bug, I googled "camera policies in SF venues" (or something like that) before we left and came up with the following link:

To use in place of the blobby heads with the question mark?

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What say you, CSDC companions?