There certaintly are a lot of important people walking around campus. Walking briskly. That's the way to walk when you're wearing a suit or heels for the benefit of convincing others that you are important. Strolling while wearing a suit makes you look like the president. He doesn't have to be brisk; everyone knows he's important. (The US president, that is. The university president has to walk that way because he's too short to otherwise keep up with people. That, and I think he's got tireless energy and is simply BRISK! by nature.
I've also noticed that putting your hands in your pants pockets while wearing a buttoned suit jacket makes you look like a lazy and/or pompus jackass, and makes me think of the word "congressman." Don't wear a suit unless you're going to be doing something important.
It really is nice to have all these busy, important people walking brisk!ly by while I lay barefoot in the grass. Makes me feel like a dirty hippy. I wish I had a guitar to play for them. I could make up songs that didn't rhyme, about what the chloroflorocarbons of their hairspray bottles are doing to "our" ozone layer. Maybe I could ask them who owns the moon.
Because I like to think I do.
Copyright 2003 Liz Kramer
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