Dress: Fever via eBay. Cardi: Oasis. Shoes: New Look via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk
Yes, I do have a few Mockinghorse pieces now. I imagine there’ll be a few more here and there, too. Here’s a closer look at this one:
Well, I can hardly be expected to resist birds, can I?
It’s a quiet week at work at the moment, with a few of the chattiest folk on holiday and everyone else busy. Office conversation has all but ended, and I do sometimes find it hard to join in the general banter as either it’s latest-game-related or, well, <insert complex theorising for which I don’t currently have the energy here>.
I actually used to be quite a big gamer, but it’s one of those things that stopped happening when kit got lost or broken during one of my many housemoves and I couldn’t afford to replace or upgrade. I sometimes wonder about getting back into it, but I have so many other hobbies vying for my time and it seems to be such a bloke-centric world – unless you specifically seek out more balanced environments – that I’m not sure I’ve the energy to let myself get into it again.
I guess that’s not the attitude, really, but sometimes you just don’t have it in you to have the ‘believe it or not, I actually have a valid opinion on this topic in spite of my breasts’ conversations that seem to so often be needed. I used to get the same sort of thing sometimes when I had more than a passing interest in football – it was never a huge hobby, but I followed it more keenly than I do now and the number of times I had the ‘*make observation* ‘oh! Hang on a minute, you’re a girl!’ conversation was a trifle depressing.
Y’know, point totally taken about gaming,* but then again, this is quite cheering.**
*And really, who has the time; we recently got an XBox specifically for Kinexercising, which is really working for me, but when I tried playing an actual game on it – well, it’s a very nice game and all, but the thing is I can’t knit while playing.
**Second time I’ve linked to that today. It just pleases me, is all.
The timesuck aspect is a huge thing, when you have other hobbies with which it would be incompatible, isn’t it?
That link is fabulous! I suppose it all gets a bit circular – I’m less likely to talk about it – and indeed do it – because reaching a point where my opinion seems likely to be accepted without at the very least an accompanying ‘huh? But… You’re a girl’ feels like it’s miles away. I often notice that my interjections into office conversations on Typically Blokish conversations tend to be either glossed over or maybe the recipient of a quiet chuckle from the one person that’s listening – I’m a tad reluctant to add another topic to that list, I suppose.
But then, of course, the more people like me respond like that, the more ideas like ‘women don’t game’ aren’t widely challenged – unless you’re with other women. I don’t think it would stop me if I was hugely passionate, but it does seem to be stopping me following a more casual one-of-my-hobbies interest,
Bleh. Sorry, that was rambling – is early and my thoughts on this are still a bit confused.