I wear black pants to school approximately 80% of the time, with…something on top…usually a solid-colored shirt, maybe about half the time with a scarf. Most of the rest of the time, it’s a black skirt ditto. For really wild days, I have one brown skirt with a matching cardigan, and I also have a black tank dress that I wear with an overshirt, a jacket, or a cardigan.
And that’s about it. Also, some of these clothes are a little too big on me now, which is a fine problem to have when one has been trying to lose weight, but there are some key items that really should fall out of the rotation.
If I could add one item to my wardrobe right now, it would be a pair of colored pants that I could wear with a black or neutral top. But pants shopping…I’m going to spend some of my precious weekend time pants shopping?
Well, maybe. And what else will I be doing today?
- Writing goals for the week and group update
- Laundry
- FA paperwork for the Snork Maiden’s summer program application
- Some form of exercise
- Grocery/Target (which is where the pants shopping might happen)
- Prep for NLNRU class
- Prep for two student meetings
- Dinner and the Oscars (or some part thereof) at my mom’s
That last one means I have about eight hours for all the other stuff–which is a reasonable amount of time and can also include some breaks, including a nice nap, if I’m feeling so inclined. I have SA prep and grading to do, but I think the list above is enough for now. (NLNRU definitely looms over my weekends more now that I’m teaching on Monday nights, and SA is more likely to get back-burnered.)
Posted by What Now? on February 25, 2013 at 12:19 am
I have to laugh because my uniform consists of black, brown, or khaki chinos, a knit shirt or cardigan, and about half the time a scarf. I need to improve the variety of clothes in rotation, but I’ve put on a few pounds in the past year and am feeling too dumpy to think about clothes much right now. I’m hoping in a couple of months to be in the position you are, in which clothes are loose enough that I am willing to put up with the annoyance of shopping!
Posted by meansomething on February 26, 2013 at 7:11 am
Well, I didn’t actually go shopping or anything, but we might be moving toward that drastic move. Khaki pants–there’s an idea!
Posted by Pym Fan on February 25, 2013 at 5:00 am
I think I’d rather go to the dentist than shop for pants. Ugh.
Posted by meansomething on February 26, 2013 at 7:11 am
I would go for pants, but not by much.