back to school!

and (hopefully) back to a normal sleep schedule. i could not for the life of me fall asleep last night. it was well past two am before i finally passed out. hopefully with the elementary school bullshit beginning again, i will be more tired out by the time i get to bed. as of yet, i have no new anecdotes from the ESB, but that is natural as i have only been here about ten minutes. however, it has been long enough for a teacher to just walk by me with her head down reading a paper - hello, we've been gone for two weeks and the least you could do is say "good morning" to a coworker. those teachers think so highly of themselves. i kind of feel sorry for them.

yesterday i went to the mall on a mission. i wanted the velvet blazer from Gap. now, Gap is not normally part of my style philosophy - ever since one of the columnists in vogue hit the nail on the head when she said that vogue was ok style-wise but their fit is too "mid-america." that is totally why i don't usually shop there; nothing fits me. and being one of the very few naturally skinny people that i know, i like to feel privilidged in the fact that things at Gap generally do not fit me - it makes me feel special and gives me rationalization for buying my clothes at Nordstrom's or Nieman Marcus or for paying $150 for jeans (side note: i haven't yet paid that much for them; i've been lucky enough to find good ones at places like Filene's Basement for a third of that - jeans that wouldn't fit your average gap shopper - like miss sixty). anyhow i had been in Gap during the mad holiday shopping rush to see if there might not be something my siblings would like there? they aren't as skinny and from the tv ads it looked like gap had cool accessories type things. and i saw the blazer - i have been shopping for one for months, and in the meantime wearing my sister's. so i went back yesterday and to my happy surprize they were half off! while in the fitting room, i overheard this conversation:
mom: these jeans are worn.
daughter: mom, that's the style.
mom: style my ass, i'm not paying sixty dollars for a pair of jeans that look like somebody already wore them out.
i hope she doesn't get my attitude when she gets older. then again, i don't really buy "worn jeans."

anyway another day begins... what do they have in store for me today?