You do NOT ask a LADY her Atomic Weight.

I’ve always been an advocate of casual business attire, but my thoughts on this are more liberal than most. For me, casual should be pajamas. Or sweats. Sweatshirts, anything comfy. Because, unless you meet with clients, who gives a shit what you wear? The girls in sales look like they spend a fortune on clothes and I end up grudgingly following the rules and coming off rumpled and…well. It’s quite obvi that I don’t care much about work attire.

So, today is my chance, my dream!

Today’s Halloween costume: I’m Xenon. I’m somewhat rare (smile, gleaming teeth with star), first of all, and I’m inert, so, pajamas. My pajamas are just a comfy sweatshirt and PJ pants anyway, but I did bring my slippers. Xenon is also extremely stubborn with her electrons and doesn’t give them up easily. It will fight you. (And that’s not like me AT ALL.) Also of importance is that it doesn’t like most other atoms. (And that’s not like me AT ALL.) Xenon can, however, be Florinated. But that doesn’t really count because it will resist. And anyway, everyone knows that Florine is the Russell Brand (or Sienna Miller, depending on your sexual preference) of the periodic table. It’s, how you say, “indiscriminate.”

Other things I can be, if I don’t want to be seen as a complete dork (and that’s not like me AT ALL): a grad student, or, “Me on Weekends.”

Pictures later.

And yes, Boyfriend has his hand in this. Do you think I could come up with this on my own? We do the cutesy name thing, but he also calls me other things, like his Dee, thinks that Walter Sobchack and I have more in common than not, and, most sweet and romantic of all, I’m his Argon. (Let’s just say that Argon doesn’t play well with others.) I love all of this, of course. At any rate, today I’m Xenon. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea.

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