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sleeve.which.is.shrugged.higher

June 13th, 2009
Purple Fabric by Clearly Ambiguous.

We all do it. It doesn’t matter whether what we’re doing is particularly messy work, if we’re wearing something with sleeves, we roll or shrug them up. Maybe it’s a sign to ourselves and to others that we intend to do work. Maybe just a habit. Either way I think it’s important to shrug sleeves for our own sakes. We live in times where it’s easy to paper-shuffle, clock watch, and well… sleeeve shrug because someone is watching/or because it’s expected.

I think something different happens when we consciously shrug them, we acknowledge that this could get messy or sweaty or paint splashed… that mistakes are likely.

For me, not being able to start the day, or a task with this kind of approach isĀ  a serious loss. At least that’s my take. [Shrugs]

Picture by Clearly Ambiguous, Creative Commons License

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  1. June 14th, 2009 at 22:07 | #1

    Sleeve shrugging huh? :-) Hmmmmmm…

    Point taken.

    What I tend to do is check my wrist whenever I’m about to start a task - but I don’t wear watches (shrug)…lol Don’t ask me how I time myself….

  2. verbswis
    June 14th, 2009 at 22:38 | #2

    I used to do that, and now I have one. This doesn’t display the date though, yet it’s the first place I look when one of the kids says “Sir, what’s the date today’. Habits, eh?

  3. June 15th, 2009 at 07:19 | #3

    You teach?

  4. verbswis
    June 16th, 2009 at 10:56 | #4

    Yeah, part-time, 11-15 year olds. Not literature though, more left-brain: Information Tech…

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