"Your face is all red."

[raybear]

Before I begin this post, I must mention that "Can I Get A...?" just came on the radio. After I just replied to comment by angeltrouble who earlier made a post including this song. It all comes full circle. But anyway...

We have a temp today. She's of that indeterminate age, where she could be a matureish 19 year old with lots of makeup or an inmmature mid-20s woman with lots of makeup. Her smell is overwhelming -- some bizarre trendy perfume mixed with the cosmetic smell of hair product and makeup. She has highlights in her hair. She has almost no eyebrows except for a remaining carefully plucked thin arch. She's wearing a trendy tight red sweater and clinging grey wool pants. She wears giant thin hoop earrings. And lavender lip gloss.

And she keeps flirting with me.

Now, I'm not delusional. I don't believe she's actually making moves or interested or anything. I think she's just friendly and using flirtation as a means of being nice. But it makes me feel flustered. I think because she reminds me of all the popular trendy girls in high school and college who never had anything to do with me. And so now the attention is unfamiliar. I have asbolutely no idea how to act. I don't feel comfortable flirting back, because I don't want to seem sleazy or have my actions misinterpreted. I mostly just mumble and half-smile and blush. But then she teases me for blushing.

Right before I started typing this, she stopped at my desk and commented on the picture of my nephew.
She asked if I had kids. I said no.
"Because you don't want them?" Then she smiled and cocked her head.
"Uh....no.....I want to, just.......uh, just not yet."

Then I turned back to my computer and became busy.

In the middle of typing, she came over and asked about using our fax for her time card. She asked about my band-aid. I said, oh I cut my finger on last week. She smiled again. "Well, you know, I HAVE to ask, what happened?"

This is so weird. Why is this freaking me out? This straight girl is way too unfamiliar territory for me.

But the best part was a conversation earlier, where she asked how long I worked here and what I did. She asked if I liked it, and I hesitated about being honest with my career change, since no one here at work techinically knows. I said it's good, but I'm thinking about switching...then paused...then said I originally wanted to go to law school before.... She interrupts me and says "wow, that is a big switch." I was really confused. I guess she interpreted it as me going from actually being in law school to being an administrative assistant-type. Which I guess is a little big. If it had happened. Then she went on about how she was in nursing, but she dropped out of school and now she's temping but she wants to teach and is going back to school for that.

"Wow. That's a big change, too."

I sat down and felt relieved I didn't have to explain to her what a music producer is.

Comments

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

You know, I forget sometimes that most people didn't inadvertantly end up with four very hot very "popular" straight girls as best friends in high school. I'd be a wreck around women if it weren't for those four, let me tell you. You want me to send them up, you know, to teach you how to hang out with heteros?

[angeltrouble.livejournal.com]

her outfit sounds totally delish.