This evening, I just noticed that the light sweater I had been wearing all day happens to be inside-out. Now I’m wondering why no one mentioned anything.<\/p>\n
Theory 1: Nobody noticed or cared, kind of like nobody notices or cares about your bad hair days either. On even a casual inspection, it’s obvious: the seams on the sides are showing, there’s a little tag on the side, the buttons aren’t visible, and so on. But on the other hand, people really don’t look that closely at these things, the sweater is a basic dark grey all around and so who else would ever<\/em> notice? Particularly since I work with engineers. God bless engineers.<\/p>\n Theory 2: People did notice and decided that I was going crazy, since I’m really too young even for early-onset dementia. Just smile and nod and back away from the crazy writer guy and hope you don’t need to flee the building later that afternoon.<\/p>\n I’m leaning towards Theory 2, since I haven’t shaved since Monday. Plus I was having a bad hair day. My job depends on establishing relationships with my engineering colleagues based on mutual respect… but failing that, fear works too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But on the other hand, people really don’t look that closely at these things, the sweater is a basic dark grey all around and so who else would *ever* notice? Particularly since I work with engineers. God bless engineers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}