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My office is kinda cold. I think we keep the A/C up a bit too high. Short sleeved shirts (still worn with ties) often leave me a bit cold even if they're reasonably appropriate outside. I'm not quite sure how the regs are on short sleeves, but for now I just limit them to days without important meetings and figure that my bosses would tell me if they were a problem. Not asking is my pathetically minor way of maintaining my fashion autonomy.

Also, for my lunch, I will once again be studying counter-insurgency methods. That is to say I will be eating soup with a knife. Over time I slowly lose utensils and I've been good about not hitting the food court for a bit so I haven't restocked. Apparently the trick to counter-insurgency is drinking directly from the bowl near the end.

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I lack patience with soup. First, I try to eat it while it's still too hot, and end up burning my tongue. After a while, I get frustrated with using the spoon and I just drink most of it anyway. I think in your situation, I'd actually try drinking as much as I could and just ignoring the knife.

In Japan, don't they use chopsticks to pick the stuff out and then drink the broth?

Well, the microwavable soups I've been taking to work actually tend to start at a pretty good tempature. They need a minute or two to cool down but then they're fine. I have more trouble with the soups I heat in a sauce pan because the amount of heating I give those is normally pretty arbitrary.

And I do tend to get bored with the kinfe fairly quickly. It depends on the soup.

Also, why the hell can't Thunderbird properly use the reply function that's in comment emails sent by LJ. This problem has been around for years. I wouldn't think it's all that hard to fix. I wonder which end the problem is on.

I tend to put soup in a mug and just drink it if I'm lacking utensils. Or even if I *have* the utensils. I tend to inevitably spill on my shirt if I use a spoon.

GAH! Do not wear a short-sleeved shirt with a tie. Seriously. Roll up the sleeves, wear a thinner shirt, but short sleeves + tie looks dorky. Maintain your fashion autonomy by getting cool ties or shirts.

What kind of soup is it you are drinking with a knife? It sounds difficult.

I can't agree with you enough here. A full button up light-weight long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up looks so much better on guys than a half button up short-sleeve shirt. Also the roll-up method is good for hiding things if your sleeves are starting to fray or you accidentally spilled something on the sleeve.

Well, I am dorky.

And I also have a competing ideal of spending about $50 a year or less on clothes. In the exception of years where I get suits. (I may have to buy another jacket at some point, that'd be another exception).

I used to be in your shoes when I was really budgetting myself in order to afford the house. What I did to cut down on clothing expenses is geat all my dress clothes from Value Village. For $50 you could get 4 sets of long sleeve shirts and khakis. Every so often you get lucky and find someone that donated the stuff with the tags still on. Just be sure to check the condition of the elbows since those tend to wear down the fastest. I've been using my Value Village attire for the past three years and just two weeks ago finally went out and bought some new first-hand dress clothes from a store. Even then I only paid about $20 per shirt.

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