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what's right is right
02/23/2007 = 08:51 AM

Back in the Stone Ages, when HTML was but a twinkle in the eye of computer motherhood and the software I was supporting was VAX-VMS (good lowered, this was when Alpha was just starting to be introduced), I took a course in Synergy, which was a COBOL/DiBOL-ish programming language, and probably still is, though I've not had to use it in eons.

Said course is not my topic of choice here; the instructor is.

He was from Danunda. New Zealand, specifically.

He was pretty cute, in a Mr. Clean sort of way — bald, earring, muscles — and had a sweet accent.

He liked merlot.

And he dressed right. ("Right," as opposed to "left;" not "right," as opposed to "incorrectly.")

I noticed this merely in passing. Because when an instructor is cute and refers to exclamation points as "shrieks," you might check out his package a little when he walks over to check your progress.

I just assumed this was a personal preference, but Skim just had a course with a Danunda instructor who also dressed right.

So now I am all a-wonder.

I have taken a computer course or two in my time.

I would say about ninety percent of these courses were taught by men, and of those, fewer than fifty percent of those men were intriguing enough, malewise, that I was inclined to note how their ... er ... hammers were hanging, as it were.

Of these, only one was hanging right ... but the left-dressers were also all Yanks.

So what I'm wondering is, is right-dressing an equatorial thing? Hemispherical?

Like the direction the water swirls down the drain when one lets out the bath, depending on whether one is in Oakland or Auckland?

I await your theories.

Tags: (bitch, please, how in the world could I possibly tag this?)

drinking: water
listening to: Lord of the Yum Yum, Habañera from Carmen
maybe it's no wonder: the enzedders call us yanks