Any more cupcake suggestions?

Vanilla with colored sprinkles inside?

Since we're a publisher, we never see clients/authors/other humans, so we can dress pretty much however we like. In practice, this means mostly business casual, but also jeans frequently. Women (me included) often wear solid-color t-shirts (I wear mine with long hippie skirts in the summer). No shorts, although we used to have a fashionista who worked in the office who did once wear long shorts (are they called "city shorts" now? whatever, long shorts) and heels. Disconcerting.

I keep meaning to wear the semi-colon shirt one day, but I'll probably bring a button-down shirt to wear over it.

But I have one skirt that I got slapped for wearing to work in Michigan that I'm now shy about trying to wear to work here. But I like it! It's such a lovely shade of purple. Polgara has given me a pass on it, but I'm still askeered.

I, personally, don't care, but being hit by crazy relative bosses and forced to wear a trenchcoat all day has scarred me.

Okay, when you said "slapped" in the first paragraph, I thought you meant verbally. But *actually* physically HIT? I know you said they were insane, but DAMN.

In my department, jeans without holes and a shirt without stains is considered dressed enough for teaching. I've seen one professor who wears that to teach, then strips down to boxers and an undershirt while he's in the office. I wore a suit for the job interviews at the conference in SF, but for this last interview, it was just way too hot to wear a jacket, and the campus seemed super-casual, so I wore gray slacks and a black shirt with some ribbon detail (Ann Taylor is my savior for interview clothes), and that seemed fine.

Call from the school counselor - he tried to run out of the school building.

I work in education, so it varies widely. I usually wear a suit to work. I dress a little more casually in the summer, since I don't deal with students. Today, I'm wearing a black skirt with a grey, blue and cream striped button up shirt and closed toe slides. I didn't bother with a jacket.

My favorite cupcake is yellow cake with chocolate frosting, so I'm no help, but I'm pretty sure a recent Woman's Day or something had a big cupcake story, unless my mother's just hanging on to old magazines (which is always possible).

I have no indication that the temperature here varies significantly with the temperature outside, so I can't see my clothing varying too much.

Yeah, it does seem kind of stupid to dress for summer and then come in and put a sweater on top of it, but my commute has me outside long enough that I need to dress for that, too! Mostly I wish they would turn the a/c down.

Oh dear, msbelle.

I work at a Weil competitor

Ha! No you don't! Not Weil publishing, but Weil the law firm.

But next week we have our rep from your company coming by to show us changes to the online product - we'll see if he's in a suit.

eta: Oh, msbelle.

eta2: Speaking of legal publishers- SuziQ, I will be in Denver next month and ready, willing and able to run away from my work obligations if you're around!

But *actually* physically HIT? I know you said they were insane, but DAMN.

Most of NINE YEARS. Obviously I was crazy too. The really crazy one tried to Facebook friend me the other day. Sure honey. All over that. In a hot second. My sister asked if FB had a "Fuck Off" button.

In my department, jeans without holes and a shirt without stains is considered dressed enough for teaching.

I think my sister might teach in shorts. Yet, apparently corporate Jamaica is sufficiently conservative that women in red suits is a no-no.

he tried to run out of the school building.

Ah, damn, msbelle. Do you know what triggered it?

Mostly I wish they would turn the a/c down.

God, me too. Last job I went on a big binge of really cute shirts with short sleeves that I can now only wear with a cardigan. What a waste of puffed sleeves...

Completely unrelatedly...coolest geek on TV? I'm biased by my overweening current crush, but Alec Hardison? What's his competition? Chuck Bartowski? Sam Winchester (but he's a bit busy being...other things)?

Hardison, and the others don't even come close, geekwise.