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[labellementeuse]

Well, that'll learn me. Went to a seminar at work today (very interesting by the way, about the effects of insulating and heating houses on energy consumption and health). I was there early to set up so I pulled out my ipod and started reading some fic, a) because I don't have the emotional wherewithal to read fiction without 1) romantic resolutions and pornography or 2) characters I am attached to already right now and b) because that's what I was going to take notes on anyway.

Before the seminar starts my coworker plops down next to me and is like, "What are you reading?"

I don't think I've blushed so hard in my life. Or closed Stanza so quickly.

(I told him it was none of his beeswax. I quite like him so I felt bad that I wasn't able to make up a plausible lie, but then he might have tried to look and what I was reading was definitely on the romantic-resolutions-and-pornography scale.)

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[hazel]

*laughs* On the bright side, he probably didn't see anything, and even if he had, what fits on an ipod screen isn't enough to let the cat out of the bag?

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[shihadchick]

I would totally buy you the beverage of your choice if you wrote this up and submitted it Dolly magazine. I AM JUST SAYING.

With, uh, a lot of sympathy, as I work with super-nosey coworkers who constantly peer or want to know what I am reading. No, no you don't, coworker.

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[trialia]

Hee. I totally read smut on my phone. *nods* RPF smut at that - Alex Kingston/Matt Smith was the most recent. I, however, am not so shy with most people I meet to do otherwise than tell them vaguely what I'm reading, to wit: "Erotica, actually." Then shut my screen off. *g*