Otters! That so totally rocks.

In my office the denim trousers would only work on the rare days when we are allowed jeans.

I wonder if denim skirts are allowed. . . .

When I was in the 7th grade, I had a teacher who in retrospect was a fashionista (even if that term didn't exist in 1983). Once, on a field trip, one of the girls in my class caught all kinds of grief from another teacher for wearing jeans. Fashionista teacher jumped in and corrected her, saying that "jeans" is a style of pants, NOT a type of fabric, and one can wear corduroy jeans, for example, and what the girl was wearing were denim trousers and not jeans.

IIRC, the girl still got a note sent home for wearing jeans on a field trip when she wasn't supposed to, so apparently strict style definitions were not part of St. Bernadette's grade-school curriculum.

And we wear jeans all the time here. I'm wearing them today, with a sweater. I don't wear them with t-shirts or fleece jackets or anything (although I *may* wear my Cosa Nostra Grammatica t-shirt to work when I get it).

...am working still in my pjs. But it's technically a snow day!

Damn it's good to be a developer.

I don't know if that's because you're a developer, and not because you've worked where you've worked. This is my fifth company, I think, and the first where developers can wear jeans every day. And the every day is only about a year old.

I've also never worked (or heard of) anywhere where denim was allowed and jeans not, so trouser jeans are not a separate concept I've had use for. It's not that jeans were prohibited at these places, it's that denim was.

On the Lucky website they have two Easy Rider jeans. One pair is $80, and the dark wash is $99. I'm not sure what that's all about, and am trying to hang on in there until they make it back into stores, because I currently wear two sizes of this style, and I don't want to have to buy both sizes to experiment, especially not if there's some difference between the two washes that I'm not getting.

At that job I also had a chambray shirt that I got in trouble for wearing. I don't think they had a concept of denim as a separate concept from chambray. Also, looking back on it, I am not sure why a normal person would!

I don't know if that's because you're a developer, and not because you've worked where you've worked.

I think there's a cultural difference between software shops that sell software products as opposed to software services.

I wore jeans to work yesterday, but it was cold and wet so I felt totally justified.

I'm trying to light a fire under my ass about grading, but my espresso isn't working. Darn it!

Yup. I have definitely reached the MOAR COFFEE portion of my morning. Since it's almost afternoon.

I think it's that I accidentally left the coffee on the burner too long and it isn't as delicious as it could be.