No, seriously. She basically dresses like me, but with a gel manicure. I love her, but I think she's higher femme in her head than she is in execution.

Hah. Yeah, I think anything that involves Birkenstocks, even the fancy ones, is not very femme.

OTOH, my brother swears that even very sedate facial piercings are off-limits in a medical (patient-care) context for doctors, so I'm no sure how hair charms would go.

If the reason is patients not entrusting their pain management to someone who thinks having sensitive areas of their face pierced with a big needle is fun, I can see hair charms being much less of an issue. If it's MRI-related, NSM.

I think on GP, I would choose a doctor with gauges in his/her ear.

I already feel like doctors are too young! And the new-fangled body art would just emphasize that for me, even though I think the (for example) dimple piercings can actually be cute.

Or is she using high femme to mean higher maintenance with an excuse?

Oh Kat. I am usually horrible about remembering my dreams but occasionally a thought or a picture lingers when I wake up. Today it was Grace, very forcefully, telling me that we needed to sell CJ's toes for celery.

This is hilarious!

Two nights ago, I dreamt the end of Downtown Abbey. It included a massacre where all inhabitants died because of some monster. Seriously. Then when I woke, I remembered that the current policy zero population growth and I had to think to remember who had died and who had been born. Then I began to speculate that perhaps they were going to set up Mary and Tom which seems improbable. But still possible. Also was Mary's baby a boy?

I think on GP, I would choose a doctor with gauges in his/her ear.

No way. Nose piercings on a doc? No problem. But gauges, like Ed Hardy clothes, are a good douchebag indicator. Perhaps because of the student population I work with.

(laughing out loud)

Kat, you probably aren't wrong. But I would be so startled that a medical doctor would have dramatic piercings that I would need to investigate.

my brother swears that even very sedate facial piercings are off-limits in a medical (patient-care) context for doctors

I can see that, most times. I have one doctor relative with her nose pierced, but she's in the sort of role where people go to their dermatologist to have rogue tampons removed, so it's all about devotion and not conventional selection processes.

Tj's has just informed me that the Ezekiel people make a low glycemic raisin cinnamon bread, so my snacking needs may be ALL covered. I was enjoying the whole wheat raisin cinnamon bread from Sprouts, but this is live to boot.

And, good lord, my elevenses nectarine could not have been more ambrosic. Nngnargh. For the first time I waved off a guy holding a door for me because I wanted to stand still and finish my snack.

I got dinged in the elevator for not taking advantage of the relaxed dress code--cited as "the girl wearing boots"--I showed them they were Mary Janes, which they were willing to describe as Docs, but whatEVs. Standards, people, standards.

I do continually comment to the other J'can woman that she's always impeccably dressed--even jeans are part of an outfit for her, but she swears sometimes she even wears baseball caps. If she saw people ribbing me for what I'm wearing she'd laugh harder.

JFC, my father didn't make it to his day program today, because my grandmother didn't make sure he got in the cab. He was home safe and they hung out, but fuck. I don't think either one of them should be home alone at this point. My grandmother's too dizzy to do her PT exercises, but still thinks she might walk to the store. Yeah, no.

Timesheet submitted. No work until Monday. Even turning off my work e-mail on my cell phone (actually just did that so I didn't forget).

We don't have any real plans for tomorrow, but we are going up to a friend's cabin in Wyoming for the weekend. And my foot is feeling better so I might be able to go hike even!