I got a rock.

[prillalar]

Happy Halloween! I've got nothing for you. Because I am busy like a busy bee who has too much contract work to do in too little time plus fanfic deadlines and a visit to its parents looming in the not-too-distant future. A bee that is somewhat stressed, though still cheerful, possibly due to the amount of caffeine consumed in the last 24 hours. Bzzzzzzzzz!

I don't know if you dressed up today or not. I did. As a tool.

♦ My glasses make me look like a tool. This is because today was the day that the optical place called me up and told me to bring in my oh-so-cool Inui-esque frames (with the secret black racing flames, as lj user kormantic calls them) so they could ship them off to the place that makes the oh-so-expensive Nikon lenses that are my only option and which set me back a cool $600+, and that place is not in town, so I am making do with my old frames which are kind of a combination between Tezuka and Harry Potter, combining the least attractive features of each. I look ten years older. Also, I can barely see.

♦ My hair makes me look like a tool. I am in the process of trending my look from "butch tech geek girl" to "cool designer geek girl" with a side of "respectable business person" thrown in. So, I'm keeping my labret but wearing less clothes that are purchased in the Zellers Men's Department (though still roughly the same amount of clothes over-all) and growing my hair from a short sticky-up cut to a chin-length bob (which I've had before and which looks pretty good on me). But right now I have in-between hair. I have "middle-aged woman" hair. And the Tezuka-Potter glasses do not complement it at all.

♦ My trenchcoat makes me look like a tool. I pulled it out the back of the closet today to wear to a client meeting instead of my black hooded raincoat. Never again. That trenchcoat? Has shoulder pads.

But I'll get my cool glasses back soon, my hair will grow out eventually, and I'll never wear that coat again. And my ass is looking pretty good these days, so that's something.

Comments

[prillalar]

Okay, they are not so bad as, say, the ones I had in junior high before I got contact lenses (which I no longer wear). But the frame colour kind of disappears into my face and the combo with the hair is not kind to me.

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

Well, I still don't believe it [pending pictorial evidence] but I tend to think that glasses look good on others unless they are horrendously awful. Like, cotton-candy pink with unicorns on them awful. And even then, a small part of me still thinks that is cute.

I can't wait to see episode 07 of akihabara@deep. The preview given in episode 06 is just beautiful. I did a little chair dance when I saw it. I really want to pimp this show out to my friends list, complete with pictures and insane babbling.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I almost bought a transparent pink pair with diamantes in them once (ok, last month), from Chanel. They looked awesome except that I didn't think anyone would ever take me seriously if I wore them.

I tried this akihabara@deep show on youtube. I'm not really feeling the love - well I loved that shy guy (I can't remember his name) but it just seemed really cracktastic to me. Is that why you like it?

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

Heck, transparent pink sounds awesome. You should've gotten them anyways!

Page is the shy guy and yes, the first episode was really cracktastic. But in each episode, the writers are taking weird, geek things and making fun. Like cosplay and battle maids and hackers and girl goth bands. Admittedly, it's been more on the guy side of weird geekery but I have hopes for girl geekery too. I also like how the characters [except for Akira, really] are all the painful geek stereotype, not the cool stereotype. And I really, really like that they band together to try and protect what they love, even if the "normal" world doesn't understand what they love.

Plus, the characters are starting to grow on me something fierce. Particularly Page, Box, and Taiko. So yes, the crack is a draw because I adore humor but there's an underlying earnestness that is really sweet as well.

[prillalar]

I CANNOT WAIT FOR EPISODE EIGHT.

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

WAITWAITWAIT, EPISODE 07 CAME OUT? WITH THE ZOMBIES? SORRY, CAN'T TALK NOW, GOTTA DOWNLOAD.

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

It did! I love you TV-Nihon!

Now I have something to look forward to watching this evening when I get home from work. Zombieszombieszombieszombies...