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[melannen]

The dining hall ladies know me by name. They don't just read it off my card, because they address me by it before I hand them the card now. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I've never observed them doing it with anyone else. And it's not like I'm in there very often, or at any consistent time. Is saying "thank you" every time I go through the line so especially friendly? Or do I just stand out a lot more than I think I do? -- I could swear they were daring each other last winter to ask me why I wear a cloak. Maybe they think I'm a communist infiltrator, and want me to know they're watching me, because they're actually part of a secret third-world superspy organization and go out at night with black catsuits and shuriken.


Also I've gotten three seperate, and apparently sincere, compliments on my hand-made shoelaces in the past week. Maybe I should just make shoelaces for a living. I bet I could do well enough to get by. q-: Hitchhike to follow the warm weather and sell shoelaces in the street for food money. Sounds lovely.

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[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Or do I just stand out a lot more than I think I do?
You do tend to stand out a bit, which makes ya recognizable. That could be it. If you don't think that's it, pay closer attention to when other long-time students go through the line, and see if anyone else is named. Might just be one of those things that goes unnoticed until it happens to you...

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should just make shoelaces for a living. I bet I could do well enough to get by. q-: Hitchhike to follow the warm weather and sell shoelaces in the street for food money. Sounds lovely.
Somehow, I can see someone actually doing this...

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Oh, could work. It could definitely work. Especially if you had savings for bad weeks. I'm just as likely to end up doing that as anything else.

Kleenex tissues bear a copyright mark for 1938. This has nothing to do with the comment, though.

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Yeah... wait a tick!
Are you sayin' there's awesome homemade shoelaces, and us online-only types don't get to gawk at them?

And... didn't you use to not use laces or something to that effect? Memory's fuzzy.

Re: Kleenex tissues bear a copyright mark for 1938. This has nothing to do with the comment, though.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

They're not that awesome. I acquired a lucet (http://www.stringpage.com/lucet/lucet.html) at an SCA event in Troy this summer, and with brightly-colored worsted yarn it makes very . . . distinctive . . . shoelaces. They also actually stay tied on my feet, which is magical in and of itself.

I haven't tried striping it yet. I should do that next.

[antiscian.livejournal.com]

Some recognize me by (foreign, barely pronounceable) name too- and I'm fairly mainstream-y dressed, so I think it's just the regular "thank you" that warrants notice.

w00t for courtesy.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Yay courtesy!

I stopped saying "please" though, at the cafeteria at high school, because I got tired of always getting peas.

[theemptylife.livejournal.com]

They could TOTALLY think of you as a spy... something about you was always suspicious....

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Hey!

I *blend in*. I have that perfect spy build and coloring that's completely nondescript. Not suspicious at all.

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

And wouldn't a spy *want* to blend in?

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Of course, if you wanna calm their fears, you could always go into the dining hall in a catsuit and throw paper shurikens around, so they think you're one of "them". :9