Still Day 1. Weather: still grey. Mood: ON THE UPSWING!!
Dear readers, there has been a recent development! But first, some background.
I have a lot of clothes. Really, a LOT of clothes. In fact, if I was confronted by a home invader, the easiest thing for me to do would be to trigger an avalanche of my clothes, which would bury and smother him where he stood. (I, obviously, would escape the carnage and save the day). My problem is that I am not quite sure how to put all these clothes together to make an Outfit. Oh, I try, but it always comes out a tragedy…I’m often greeted by friends with the phrase, “Oh, I see it was ‘Dress Yourself Day’ today.” Pfft, philistines, maybe I’m just too stylistically avant garde for my social circle. Or not.
In order to combat my lack of coordination skills, I’ve taken to looking at other people when I’m walking around my college campus. My school has a rash of young, hip, skinny ladies (ugh, the competition is FIERCE here), most of whom dress extremely well. In between classes, I’ll sit in the cafe and watch the fashion forward females walk by and try to take note of what works and what doesn’t. I’ll usually stop before someone notices my awkward behavior. Usually.
So, this morning, I agonized over what to wear, and feeling a little bit bold, stepped out in grey ankle boots, olive mini skirt, brown jacket, and the piece de resistance…black tights. Also dangly gold earrings. I did question my choices; my friends will often see some weird article of clothing and say “oh, that’s soooooo Miss Anthropy” or “Miss Anthropy would totally wear that” or “Miss Anthropy, you’re the only person in the world who could pull that off” (I think that last one is sincerely supposed to be a compliment). Anyway, out I struck into the misty grey dawn (noon), to meet with one of my dashing (and married, boo) GSI’s (graduate student instructer/teacher’s assistant). And do you know what he said?
“I like your earrings. Actually you look very nice, your whole ensemble looks really good.”
TA DAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! SUCCESS! Results in only 24 hours! You know what they say, every troll has her day, or something like that.
