Not like the other girls...

I've admitted for many years that I am a geek and have no issues where that is concerned. Next week I've got a couple of days off work and admitted that it's time for my biennial shopping trip for clothes since my underwear is starting to fall to bits - in general, if I need a pair of trousers, for example, the fact that a couple of local supermarkets now sell clothes has been sufficient for me.

However, the statement I made at work that provoked the most disbelief was this one: I have never owned a handbag.

Peeps at work - "But where do you keep your stuff?"
Me - "I have a briefcase for work, otherwise I use a daysack or my pockets."
Peeps at work - *stunned silence*
Me - "Do you really need a handbag and a briefcase if you're working?"
Peeps at work - "Probably not, but still... never?"
Me - "Nope."

And then I told them I didn't really care for buying shoes either. ;) E.T.A. Last wore a skirt in 1991, don't own a skirt or a dress and haven't for a similar length of time.

Help me, oh friendslist - surely I am not alone in this lack of slavish devotion to the cult of handbags and shoes? I always knew I was not a 'girl', even when biologically I was young enough, but even so...

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Just posted my picfor1000 fic, for which the deadline was today. Having written two UNCLE fics in response to previous prompts, I was determined to do another fandom and this one ended up being Mag7 - Leaves the World to Darkness.

In other fic-related news, the tealc_ficathon is open for business from tomorrow. Woo and indeed yay! \o/

Thirdly, I have figured out why my two SG-1 stories weren't working out. It is because they are actually one story, not two, and desperately want to be together. Sadly, when I dreamed the other night I had written 35,000 words and didn't remember doing so, that was just in my subconscious and nowhere to be found on my computer. :(