new revelations

jess informed me, in reference to the previous post, that i am a nerd. i would like to point out that this is the same person who gets really excited about clarinet sheet music. and not only participated in marching band for eight years, but was the announcer for a marching band. enough said.

unfortunately, though, she is right. my television choices have since progressed to marathons of miami ink (so in love with that hot tattoo artist), mid-90s law and order reruns, and bad movies on the hallmark channel. i even sat through the afi lifetime achievement award ceremony for sean connery and vh1's top 40 worst dirty songs ever. i. need. to. find. a. job. and stay away from late night television. but! to my credit, i have not yet ventured into the wild world of the lifetime movie network. (is it a rule that every movie shown on that channel has to involve domestic abuse and/or a wife murdering her husband?)

speaking of the job thing, i may have one! i'm pretty sure i'm going to get offered a job at the high school, probably teaching 11th grade US history. i find out for sure next thursday.

on wednesday i went to asheville with my aunt and cousin. my cousin, isaac, is three and the most adorable little kid alive. (sorry, kristin :P) i went shopping and bought clothes i didn't need, including a t-shirt of my most favorite rock band of all time - the electric mayhem. (if any of you don't know who that is, look it up right now, or i may have to disown you as friends. i may do it anyway for not knowing in the first place.) this shopping trip brought me to several revelations:

* i have come to the point in my life where i must abandon the junior's section in favor of adult clothes. sigh. i couldn't find a single thing that wasn't too tight, too short, or just plain too ugly. along with this abandonment of the juniors sections goes abandonment of all teenage themed stores. i will miss the $5 shirt racks.
* once you start buying expensive dress clothes, you can never go back. actual comment i made in the dressing room: "how the hell does someone fit their ass in this?" i think it's a combination of the cheap, thin material and bad designs. who in their right mind makes dress pants out of stretch fabric?
* the statement "endless opportunities for career advancement" on the help wanted sign at claire's seems a little misleading. and amusing. where are you going to go?
* abercrombie is a scary place. there are basically no lights on inside, there's weird music, you have to go through this strange tunnel of signs and walls to get in, and you can't actually see inside the store because all the windows are covered with gigantic posters of naked people. maybe it's to keep you so intimidated/distracted that you won't look at the price tags before you purchase anything, and you're so blinded by light when you exit that you can't check your receipt.

anyway, it was a productive trip. yesterday was my interview. it went very well, and i did a fine job of embellishing and making myself sound way more amazing than i actually am. today i went to the pool for the first time in two years. i was there with my aunt, therefore by default i was with mothers of preschool and elementary school age children. i didn't realize anybody talked about childbirth quite that much. there was a lot of, "i didn't need to know that" going through my mind. i had a good time though.

i'm just adopting all my children from orphanages in russia.


and keeping with my ending from my last post, here is another of life's great questions:

80's basketball shorts. what were they thinking?