It's not easy to figure out how much oddity to show... I thought I had it more or less managed, but now I guess that was because I was already comfortable with the people at the university. Now that I'm in a new environment, I'm at the "testing the water" stage again.

I want to be ljust as self-confident as one of my German teachers, who always wore a home-dyed purple jacket, wrote in purple ink and signed with a flower (a man! gasp!).