So, for years, I’ve been operating under don’t-ask-don’t-tell at work. And I’ve told plenty. I’ve manipulated social situations so that the straight people wouldn’t know I was hinting, but the gay people would. <\/p>\n
So, the older, obviously homo dude in our office dropped the “partner” hint in front of me and my fellow health care intern a week ago. I tried to play off that, when we were talking to one another at an office social\/food thing. One of us fumbled the pass, and he got huffy instead of the hint. <\/p>\n
To clear this up, I asked if he and his partner would like to join me for the chicago gay men’s chorus pride concert this week, in email. I was also semi-serious. It’s lame going alone. And he seems like a pleasant guy. <\/p>\n
Well, he has plans for pride weekend. But he referred me to another office person who was arranging plans for pride. This individual is encouraging me to be the spokesman for whatever office contingent we can gather together for the parade. Like, mail the office, telling them how to find the rest of us for parade spectation purposes. I’m a little reluctant, but I think it’s mostly because of entrenched habit. Broadcasting like that in my _professional_ life feels a little weird. Professional\/personal separation. Not that it keeps others from discussing spouses and children. *shrug* I’m already remarkable for my veganism. I could be the most interesting intern they have for awhile. =) And my boss is at something of a loss for how to keep me busy. Yay for high productivity.<\/p>\n
Oh, and 80% of interns get job offers. Sweet.<\/p>\n
Another chicago diner meal. I will _not_ replicate my debt experience of years past. Some WoW time with Then he buzzed my hair. It was getting long. I like the do. Nice & low maintenance. And took a pic. It’ll be good to have something remotely current.<\/p>\n That’s all. Beddybye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, for years, I’ve been operating under don’t-ask-don’t-tell at work. And I’ve told plenty. I’ve manipulated social situations so that the straight people wouldn’t know I was hinting, but the gay people would. So, the older, obviously homo dude in our office dropped the “partner” hint in front of me and my fellow health care … Continue reading “Work outness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}