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National Haiku Poetry Day

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The other day Husband and I made a quick trip to Bismarck-Mandan to Costco. We also went to a favorite butcher shop in Mandan. Down the street from the butcher shop is the office for the National Day company. They are the ones who post all the “National Day” declarations. I assume that they make it all up, It was fun to see where it actually takes place. It is a pretty unassuming building right there on the Mandan “strip”, the main drag in town.

I noted that today is National Haiku Poetry Day, and that yesterday was National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day. That is interesting, as our clinical director declared that anyone who wants to wear pajamas all day this Friday can do so, as long as they pay $5.00 to the social committee. This is my pajama day haiku:

If I pay five bucks

Friday I will work in PJ’s

I will wear my sweats

I don’t have any clients on Friday, just meetings, so I won’t feel too unprofessional in my sweats.

What did you consider “professional attire” at work? Make up a haiku about your clothes. What kind of pajamas do you prefer?

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    2. double snort!

      Bill, that Clinical Director is probably a breath of fresh air. They are known for stogdy traditionalism that serves little purpose.

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        4. Speaking of things but can’t be unseen, or unheard, the phrase “teambuilding exercises” will give me nightmares tonight.

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  3. When I was teaching in early 70s, I could wear pants but not jeans, but jeans would have been much more appropriate for teaching kdgn – mixing tempera paints…

    Jeans would have been great

    For crawling around the room

    Looking for legos

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    Grubby small handprints

    All over my nice new skirt

    Kindergarten kids

    (WP now insists on putting a space between lines, even if I don’t want it so.)

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  4. I do like to see people make an effort – saw someone from the county yesterday who was wearing a sports jersey-type t-shirt – just a nice top, please… That said, I myself am ultra-casual… wore my winter leggings and a sweatshirt to the same appointment.

    Can you imagine the 50s?? when women would put on a dress and heels just to go to the supermarket?

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    1. My mom, the teacher, was required to wear dresses and nylons even on recess duty when it was below zero. Had the principal had to wear that outfit for one winter recess, the policy would have changed. The teachers finally rebelled in the 1970s and won “the right” to wear pants.

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    2. I can’t attest to what women wore to the supermarket in the 50s, but by the time I arrived in 1965, I was shocked to see women wearing curlers in their hair when shopping.

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    2. Today, and most other days, WP allows me to like the blog itself but not individual comments. On the occasional days when I’m able to like individual comments, I take full advantage until the privilege is suspended again.

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  9. I wear a baggy pair of leggings around the house in the evening, with a long sleeve soft pajama top. I hate having anything on my legs while under the covers, so I remove the leggings when I crawl in, and sleep in just underwear and top.

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  10. I’m a boxers and maybe a tshirt kind of guy under lots of blankets

    at work I’m a sports coat and birdies until hot humid July ish weather takes it to shirt and shorts

    boxers a in reality casual shirts so the basketball shorts or swim trunks kids wear in summer a right up my alley

    my coat makes me formal

    folks comment that I’m dressed up

    same outfit for years

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  12. I prefer more loose fitting PJ ‘s and comfortable ones .I wear sweats to bed sometimes but I will upgrade them to more intimate ones because I design clothes and this will help me to graduate into my life as a spouse and love one .So I will make this a mantra.

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  14. Well, I don’t smudge because it makes me wheeze and cough. I have enough problems.

    I wrote a whole post about the weird job I helped with a couple of times but our friend WP ate it before it posted.

    When I worked in the fish hatchery in Waterville, I helped sometimes with northern pike eggs. The northern pike spawn in early April – usually right after the ice goes out. The technicians go out and set nets in northern pike habitat and then go back and lift the nets the next day. They take the pike out of the nets and put them in 500-gallon tanks on the back of the trucks. They bring them back to the hatchery and put them in the raceways (long trough-like tanks with gently flowing water that has been adjusted to the same temperature as the lake). They “sex” them to identify females and males. Then they take a fat female, full of eggs, and hover her over a dish on a table. They squeeze her and the yellow eggs come out of an opening on her abdomen. This is where DNR Fisheries staff get the DNR nickname “fish squeezers”. After her eggs have been stolen, she is returned to the tank on the truck. Then they get a male, hold him over the bowl, and squeeze. The males have milt, which is sperm. It’s a whitish fluid. Then they return the males to the tank. Next they take a turkey feather and gently stir the eggs and milt together in the bowl. When it has been mixed, the fertilized eggs are put into “jars” which are large glass bottles. The bottles are arranged on a wall in a “battery” which has water continually flowing through it in a gentle, temperature-regulated flow. The eggs will hatch in about a week (if I remember correctly), and once hatched they are immediately taken to a wetland area and released.

    My little job, because I wasn’t able to hold the thrashing, slimy female northern pike, was to gently stir the eggs and milt together with the turkey feather. Pretty easy, just be gentle. And wear waders and a rubber jacket because you DO smell really bad when you do this.

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  16. At my old job, attire evolved over many years. Business attire was the norm for many many years and then there were a few years of occasional casual Fridays if you coughed up two or three dollars for whatever the charity of the week was. Then we moved to business casual, with the occasional “you can wear blue jeans and sweatshirts and tennis shoes on Fridays.” Colored denim was OK but not blue denim. Then we got Summers of Love with basically no tire requirements during The summer months!!! These days it seems a few of the directors are still considering themselves attire police. YAs director is pretty laissez-faire but a couple of the directors think that they need to be reporting people on what they think are attire infractions.

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  17. At my current work from home job, the company has a wishlist of how it would like the employees to present. I say it’s a wishlist, because it is pretty universally ignored.

    They ask that everyone wear a shirt with a collar. I believe they would really like men to dress in a dress shirt with a tie, but in the modern world, you can’t really have gender-based rules, and asking women to wear ties would be a little silly, so they just ask for collars. This means, please don’t wear t-shirts or sweatshirts. But if you do, no one will ever call you out for it.

    They also ask for dress pants, a pretty pointless request, since the camera sees your head and shoulders. A manager once tried to defend this by saying it’s “in case you have to stand up,” but I have a stand-up workstation, and no one will see what I’m wearing below the waist unless I stand on a chair and point the camera downward. So if it’s cold, I wear fleece lined tights with my most worn and comfy corduroys. In warmer weather, I choose one or the other.

    Supposedly, you’re not supposed to have piercings other than earlobes…..but lots of people do.

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  20. Sorta related. The arb (a newsletter published by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum) just published an article by Zan Tomko about haiku. The following is an except from that article:

    “If you are not familiar with haiku you can research Japanese poets Basho (1644–1694) and Issa (1763–1827) for inspiration. Here are two examples of traditional haiku from these poets.

    April’s air stirs in

    Willow-leaves…a butterfly

    Floats and balances

    — BASHO

    I am going out…

    Be good and play together

    My cricket children

    — ISSA

    Haiku poetry is practiced by people all over the world. Instagram has many everyday poets practicing haiku, you can sift through the app to find inspiration.

    Haiku poetry follows this format:

    • It has three lines.

    • It has five syllables in the first and third lines.

    • It has seven syllables in the second line.

    • Its lines don’t rhyme.

    Traditional haiku also has these elements:

    • It includes a kireji, or “cutting word,” which acts as a form of spoken punctuation.

    • It includes a kigo, a reference to the season.

    • Haiku is not always expected to be a complete thought or idea.”

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  21. Fan-Piece For Her Imperial Lord (Rzra Pound)

    O fan of white silk,
                clear as frost on the grass-blade,
    You also are laid aside.

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