Wearing Shorts. Is Summer Here?
May. 2nd, 2024 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've been wearing shorts the past few days. I've quipped before that's a sign it's summer. Of course, summer technically doesn't start for another 7 weeks. Though it's part of our usual weather pattern here for it to start getting reliably warm by this time of year.
...Actually it's kind of late for it to get warm... and it's not even all that warm. High temps the past few days have only reached into the low 70s. This weekend it'll be cooler... and rainy. (Good thing I'm traveling to Mexico!) So I'm wearing shorts partly because the weather is (somewhat) warm and partly because I... want it to be summer. It's like if nature won't bring me summer I'll manifest it.
How does wearing shorts square with working the work week? Well, with remote work it squares pretty well. Although I'm on camera via Google Meet, Zoom, etc. hours a day, both with colleagues and with customers, I can wear whatever I want below the belt. It's like a TV newscaster wardrobe. Have you ever seen the "behind the scenes" things they do when, occasionally, a seated newscaster stands up? Despite their forma business attire from the waist up, they're often wearing shorts and casual shoes below that.
...Actually it's kind of late for it to get warm... and it's not even all that warm. High temps the past few days have only reached into the low 70s. This weekend it'll be cooler... and rainy. (Good thing I'm traveling to Mexico!) So I'm wearing shorts partly because the weather is (somewhat) warm and partly because I... want it to be summer. It's like if nature won't bring me summer I'll manifest it.
How does wearing shorts square with working the work week? Well, with remote work it squares pretty well. Although I'm on camera via Google Meet, Zoom, etc. hours a day, both with colleagues and with customers, I can wear whatever I want below the belt. It's like a TV newscaster wardrobe. Have you ever seen the "behind the scenes" things they do when, occasionally, a seated newscaster stands up? Despite their forma business attire from the waist up, they're often wearing shorts and casual shoes below that.
