Perfection. via On the outside looking in.
She was simply stunning. I couldn’t believe the tall, slender, beautiful woman who had just walked into the room, mere moments before I was scheduled to deliver a talk. In my field, there is a heavy male bias, such that the male:female ratio is 9:1, perhaps worse. In some settings, including this small tutorial group, it’s somewhat surprising to see a woman in the room at all. Obviously, if we are to be totally unbiased when it comes to race, religion, sex, then we shouldn’t even notice in the first place. But to see someone as perfectly defined as she, well, took my breath away. I watch as she takes her seat.
While I’m talking, I notice her ‘concentrating’ face. People have different concentrating faces; some people look confused, some people look...