going green

Every morning my office-mate walks in and inspects my outfit to see if I am wearing a proper amount of green. The initial inspection is always followed by one of the following statements: “Oh Ann, you need to home and change, I don’t see any green,” or “Oh Ann, you have your green on!” For the first few months this bugged me, I mean green isn’t even my favorite color I just happened to have a green tote-bag (which I use everyday because I don’t change my school bag everyday) and a green overcoat (which also crazily enough I used everyday during WINTER when I started the job). But I’ve come to the realization that although red will forever be my favorite color, I am in fact in a green mood lately.

Several of my favorite outfits and bags are green, my camera case is green, my shampoo bottles are green, actually almost all of my toiletries are green, my new blog layout is green, and I bought a green sketchbook a few days ago. The decision process of choosing the sketchbook is what made me realize why I’ve been in such a green mood the past few months. It is because green is the color of fresh, living, growing, and creative things. That has been my mood since waving goodbye to my PhD program and tackling the world of public high school. I really am excited by my job every morning -> even on those days that I dread or am intimidated by some specific obstacle. So when I stood there choosing a sketchbook yesterday, I picked the green one. The brown one was more aesthetically pleasing; but the green one made me feel more creative, which seems like a good idea in a sketchbook and in an attitude.