Poor Springer.
:(

Haven't heard from my parents today. I am taking that as no news is good news. Thank you all for your kind words!

Oooh, I should have done my own Springer update. After posting here yesterday, I called BTD's parents and did a house visit. The cat... after all I'd heard about how he was acting two days ago.... COULDN'T HAVE LOOKED BETTER. Honestly.

Cats can be so sneaky about disguising how they really are feeling. Knowing what I know about the situation, I'm still concerned - but he seemed to be on the up and up.

Keep your fingers crossed, prayers, vibes, well-wishes and good voodoo to your own liking are much needed and I'm sure will continue to be gladly accepted. :)

Thanks BE.

He's probably putting me through this for moving out or something. Talk about a grudge! ;)

Well, you and I both know he doesn't forgive so easily. ;)

Really, BTD - He did look super-good. You know I say that with concern, but he seemed so good and happy while I was there.

I'm really ticked that the student in charge of the law review alumni dinner decided to set the dress code such that all female members of the law review are *required* to wear skirted suits if they want to attend. I don't have a suit with a skirt, and I'm not going to frantically search for one and have it altered, all for a dinner AT THE SCHOOL. I have several nice suits. I have several nice dresses. I do not have suits with skirts because they make me look like a potato with legs and I'm not spending $300 on a suit I'll wear once. (Because by the time I had a second occasion where it was required, it would be either inappropriately out of style or the wrong size.) I don't know people feel it necessary to continue to set dress codes for professional settings that would require me to wear a skirt. I know there are hoity-toity firms out there where that's expected, but I would never consider working there. (It would be just one example of many of why that's the wrong place for me.) I didn't expect to hear out here, from a female student, that women aren't professionally dressed if they're in pants. Grrr.

I have a skirted suit I will never again wear. If you lived closer and it fit you, you could totally borrow it.

I was going to suggest maybe you could wear a nice long skirt with a blouse and a top from a suit you already have, but I think better advice might be to protest such a stupid dress code by not going.

Would they turn you away if you showed up in pants?

Right now I'm trying to muster the enthusiasm to add some error handling into a bash script that's otherwise working perfectly well. It's an edge case, and it's going to require a pretty significant rearchitecting, AND the script won't even be used in the form it's in. But this should be in there for future use.

This is why I will never be a programmer. It's not that I'm not good at it, I just don't care.

I can't do that, because it has to be matching skirt and jacket, with appropriately festive-yet-professional blouse underneath.

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Apparently. It's such a crock, as most of the female attorneys I know wear exclusively pant suits. Assuredly, there will be a number of female alumni attending in pants. Hell, last year I wore pants and a blouse, no jacket, and was fine. This year, for some reason, they're going all old school. Which is amusing to me because last year, the "look nice whatever that means to you" year the dinner was at a swanky hotel downtown. This year? We're expected to dial back the calendar a few decades, all for a dinner being served not in a hotel, but in some available lobby space on one of the floors of the law school.

That just sucks, Pru. :mad:

Why can't people take in to account other people when making plans like this. Sheesh!