Chirky

I only met you for like 45 seconds in a crowded shuttle to the airport. And we were making small talk, though I was mostly mumbling and hungover. But I totally don't think you scowled. In fact I'm positive I liked you.
But yeah, what do I know. It was brief and hot and I was possibly hungover. Who knows. I can say that you're very pretty, so that must count for something.

I don't remember any scowling when I worked with ya! :)

To tell you the truth, this is why I haven't been calling you lately, Jes. The scowling. It's very unseemly. Stop it at once.

The only face I have at work is a scowl. I keep all my smiley faces at home.

Someone at work once reprimanded me for furrowing my brow all the time because "that will be very costly to fix." As if! Botox can kiss my bootay. Wrinkles add character, man.

And intensity.

oh, THAT IS ME! that is me, you are me, i am you, blahblahblah.

i have this downturny mouth i think, and i don't like to smile like a goon for no reason. i was always getting things like "smile!" and "what's wrong?" for no reason, which just made me mad at work.

nice drawrrring. ;)

The wrinkled! brow: I love it. I would never be able to draw a wrinkled brow. I think you are perfectly pleasant, and you being wonderfully nice, and quite funny, even if you do indeed scowl from time to time, is just keeping your co-workers on their toes. Like ballerinas, if you will. Great leg-strengthening, I mean. You're awesome, scowl or no scowl, was my overall point. : )

Hey Jes? You are me and we are we. I'm exactly the same. I sigh, I huff, I scowl. But inside? I'm all right.

But I agree with HB up there - you were so smiley and friendly at BlogHer.

Okay little lady (hee), you are the MOST UNSCOWLY PERSON I KNOW. Seriously. Intense? Maybe at work. But at BlogHer you were FUN!

I have a scowly face a lot, too. People are always asking me what's wrong. Embrace the scowly face.

Other people can suck it!!! I am tired of having people say "smile!" to me (yeah I'll smile after I rip your head off) or telling me I look too serious or whatever. I was fine until that point.

I bet you're not scowly at all, other people are just jackasses.

I look angry ALL THE TIME. And I've seen candid shots of you when you didn't even know the pic was being taken (thank you, BlogHer!) and yet, no scowling. Happy Jes.

It irks me when people want me to be chipper ALL THE TIME!! No one can do that and artistic people especially are not that way. I think it makes me scowl even more when I'm not allowed to have a mood now and then. We've taken "happy" way too far.

~Jef

Is it wrong that my take-home message from this is: "Yes, there are ways you can get your coworkers to leave you alone"?

The first time I met my friend Jennifer, I asked her, "Are you ALWAYS this goddammed chipper?" She polietly smiled at me, called me a bitch under her breath and walked off. Now, we're best friends and have been for 6 years. Sometimes, the first impression doesn't stick!

I'll start working with you so you'll have a friend at work. I'm sure you don't scowl. But I love your art and am glad to see it's returned.

You should take a picture of the scowl, though. There aren't many instances I'd prefer a picture over your artwork. I'm glad I have the artwork to begin with. But I think this is one case where a picture would just make this post that much better. :)

Okay, so I just read some comments above, and they reminded me of a little story.

Once, in college, I was having dinner with my boyfriend and his family. I was looking across the table at my boyfriend's sister. She wasn't usually home, so I didn't see her much. My boyfriend and his brothers would call her a snob or a bitch a lot.

Well, I was looking at her thinking, "She's really pretty." She looked at me and asked -- in front of the whole family -- "Why are you giving me a dirty look?"

I thought you were perfectly charming in person.

I have a furrowed brow and since I am turning into an old lady, I am beginning to frighten people. They always think I am mad at something.

You have me! I don't work there anymore, true, but I you may still think of me as a work friend. Just one on a long, long vacation.

But for the record, I know the look of which they speak. But I didn't think of it as a scowl. To me, it came across more as a "do I know who you are?" concentration sort of look. And since you knew who I was, I figured you were just concentrating on something. Like figuring out what the heck I was talking about. Come to think of it, it also came across as a "and why aren't you making any sense?" look.

that should have been "you may," not "I you may," btw.

ME! ME! THAT'S ME!! I couldn't believe how I looked in all the "candid" Thanksgiving shots. I was scowling in.every.single.one.

I am scowly too... there should be a scowly club... you can be president... I will be vice president.