Are slacks predominant working clothes for women who don't have to wear a uniform? I work in IT, so what I see is pretty skewed. There isn't jackshit in the way of skirts around me unless I'm the one in it.

But I don't remember what the rest of the world looks like.

And are there regional variations? Would the West Coast be more likely to be wearing pants than the Midwest, or whatever?

I think my office may be half and half in general, but maybe skewed more toward skirts. Definitely among women who are dressing up -- there are a lot of jeans around as well.

Are slacks predominant working clothes for women who don't have to wear a uniform?

If it's a business/professional environment, just as many women are in slacks or trousers as in skirts. Especially in the winter, I would think.

Pants are definitely warmer than skirts in cold weather, no matter how many pairs of tights you put on. (Signed, I had cold knees on Thursday, between the skirt and the boots!)

I am almost exclusively dresses/skirts in warmer weather, pants in the winter. But our work is extremely casual, and not typical of most offices.

I have Kat's baked oatmeal in the oven! With rolled oats instead of steel-cut and pumpkin instead of sweet potatoes and pecans sprinkled on top. Smells good already.

Dimora Trial: Puppet's Court Day 2

In which puppets discuss the prostitute the county commissioner was seeing.

Neatorama sez:

What do you do when your news organization aren’t allowed to film the corruption trial of a former county commissioner? Why, bring in the puppets and re-enact that sucker! That’s what Channel 19 in Akron, Ohio did in order to cover the trial of Jimmy Dimora, and I think it’s the best idea to hit the airwaves in a long time.

Who needs to see all those bored, judicial type people sitting around a courtroom hemming and hawing, when you can have fleecy puppet people acting out the whole thing instead?!

My job in Michigan was predominantly skirts, as it was in the companies we worked with. But that was ten years ago.

Still, skirts during winter just the same as summer.

Where I work now, the IT department is pretty much all pants except for me. The CIO and the CEO both wear pants all the time too, but departments like Marketing and HR are much skirtier.

I just found my collection of TV theme music MP3s, as well as most of the Bond theme songs trimmed to 30s. Time for personalised ring tones on the new phone!

I swear I get colder in jeans than anything else. The skin on my thighs will still be cold to the touch after I've been inside for hours, it seems like.

I guess I've totally given up on dress pants, although I still have some in the closet, I definitely haven't worn more than one pair in the last year.

My office is completely unconventional. Everything from suits and ties (though that's usually only for occasions and that one guy) to shorts year round (that dude even has a shorts-tux!) Women run the gamut from early 80s era polyester gym-teacher outfit (srsly, like the Glee coach, but much worse) to some really blinged out silk-dress-suits types.

Eye has moved from bloody painful to just irritating and stressed. I might be able to drive by tomorrow afternoon. Pretty sure I can't handle the computer. Half this post typed with my eyes closed. Only a few shifted characters.

I can't read with one eye closed. The closed eye tracks, which is not pleasant. To read, I have to have both open, but the injured one blocked from seeing. Annoying!