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matrixrefugeeEeesh, only eight posts in all of February. I feel like I've been neglecting you folks.
Busy day today: I had an appointment with the therapist, as well as some shopping to do at Wal-Mart. I need some new shirts for work. But let me say this:
I hate shopping for clothes.
I can never find things I like in the women's department. I don't know *WHAT* is up with the styles these days, but it seems women are dressing like hootchie-mommas, and that's about the last thing I'd go for. If I was ever going to show more skin than I do, it would be a classic noir-ish femme fatale manner, not like some cheap little tootsie. I couldn't even find any plain cotton tee-shirts that hadn't had the neckline or the sleeves messed with. So I just marched over to the men's department and picked up a few tee shirts and fleece-lined jerseys. I should be set for the season.
Also, made my semi-weekly trip to the Salem Barnes & Noble, where I picked up a collection containing Jane Austen's "Sanditon" and her three notebooks of things she'd jotted when she was a teenager. I've read her hysterical "Love and Freindship" (spelling hers!), which I'd had from the Lowell library, and I was eagerly looking for more of her early writings, which are utterly ridiculous in a good way. Someone needs to film "Love and Freindship", if only as a playful parody of the typical Jane Austen movies, since the book itself is a parody of the novels of manners of the type that she herself would later write. I think that's a testament to how witty our girl was, since she was able to poke fun at herself, as it were...
And yep, the icon is based off the funny-lovely photo from Entertainment Weekly's Most Influential People in Hollywood from a few years back.
Busy day today: I had an appointment with the therapist, as well as some shopping to do at Wal-Mart. I need some new shirts for work. But let me say this:
I hate shopping for clothes.
I can never find things I like in the women's department. I don't know *WHAT* is up with the styles these days, but it seems women are dressing like hootchie-mommas, and that's about the last thing I'd go for. If I was ever going to show more skin than I do, it would be a classic noir-ish femme fatale manner, not like some cheap little tootsie. I couldn't even find any plain cotton tee-shirts that hadn't had the neckline or the sleeves messed with. So I just marched over to the men's department and picked up a few tee shirts and fleece-lined jerseys. I should be set for the season.
Also, made my semi-weekly trip to the Salem Barnes & Noble, where I picked up a collection containing Jane Austen's "Sanditon" and her three notebooks of things she'd jotted when she was a teenager. I've read her hysterical "Love and Freindship" (spelling hers!), which I'd had from the Lowell library, and I was eagerly looking for more of her early writings, which are utterly ridiculous in a good way. Someone needs to film "Love and Freindship", if only as a playful parody of the typical Jane Austen movies, since the book itself is a parody of the novels of manners of the type that she herself would later write. I think that's a testament to how witty our girl was, since she was able to poke fun at herself, as it were...
And yep, the icon is based off the funny-lovely photo from Entertainment Weekly's Most Influential People in Hollywood from a few years back.
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Date: 2008-03-03 08:39 pm (UTC)I don't know why people can't seem to realize there's a difference between "classily eye-catching "and "cheap".
Lucky you, I wish I could shop in the men's department, (everything looks more comfy and practical there, but stuff rarely fits me :P)
You know, I think I heard a rumor that some people have considered filming one of Austen's lesser known works, but are worried there isn't enough of a "market" out there.
P.S.
I love the way you refer to Miss Austen as "Our Girl" ! ;-)