I win at clothing games

Last week in the lab was Polka-Dot Week, encouraged by me on Tuesday-video-day when I noticed that J and I had unwittingly accomplished three polka-dot dresses in two days.

Monday: J - satin black-and-white dress
me - pink hairpins

Tuesday: J - another dress
me - black-and-white dress

Wednesday: J - turquoise-and-white Betty Boop dress
C - olive-and-green flats

Thursday: J - navy-and-white dress worn as shirt
me - turquoise scarf, green hairpins

Friday: J - black-and-white halter dress
me - googly-eye dress (black background, white dots, blue dots off-center within the white ones)

This was an awesome game that made me happy every day -- low key, bondish, and silly. So we had discussed whether we should have future clothing theme weeks, preferably before C leaves and with more people participating. Florals and stripes seemed like the patterns that would work, but we hadn't settled which or when.

Yesterday, because I think I'm clever, I wore a shirt that is --> both floral and striped. But I didn't see C or J all day! Crap!

Today I was giving up, but I'd noticed yesterday that I shouldn't waste my This Is Not a Pipe shirt, because that was totally floral. And it was on top of the shirt stack today. So after I put it on with stripy socks, I noticed that, actually, in itself it is ALL THREE PATTERNS: floral, stripes, and even dots.

Now I just hope I see someone! Stupid renovation* means we have lab rooms all over the building, so who knows.

* Initially typed "removation", which is actually more accurate, since they've kicked us out of our space but there has been zero teardown or construction in that space as yet.