A Late One

1. Dress - Floreat/Anthro (eBay-ed)
Tights - Assets/Target
Boots - Ann Taylor Loft (Remixed)

You really don't want to see my face in these photos. These were taken on Friday, when I was about to run out the door for the first day of a two-day conference and I'm already exhausted. I'm not exactly crazy about how this dress fits me--it's tighter around the hips but has a lot of room at the top. I usually stick to a-line shapes, but I thought I'd give a different shape a try. Either way, it was an eBay buy and since I'm stuck with it, I've decided to make the best of it. The next time I wear this dress, however, I will wear opaque black tights instead of micro-fishnets.

Between attending the conference and driving around some visiting scholars, I attended a grant workshop, wrote frantically, and attended a job talk.

2. Cardi - Ann Taylor Loft

Scarf - Boutique (remixed)
Earrings - Corcoran Gallery, DC (remixed)

In the past 30 days, in addition to teaching, I have presented a 20-minute paper on my dissertation research, given two public responses to a visiting scholar and a faculty member, respectively, and composed yet another response to a paper that will be discussed in a working group at a conference this weekend. While teaching this quarter the writing has come in stops and starts. Even though I've felt a little insane lately, I am writing easier than I was a month ago.



I've also been attending job talks and have been seeing a lot of black and gray, which has had me musing about what sort of suit I would wear if I finish the dissertation and am lucky enough to land an interview in this horrible market.  I wonder if I could pull off the following Talbots ensemble? Perhaps in black/gray instead of olive?

Just out of curiosity, I mentioned that the Anthro dress I bought via eBay didn't fit as well as I would have liked. If I had tried it on in the store I probably wouldn't have bought it. Fellow eBay-ers, is there anything that hasn't worked out well for you or that you've outright regretted? I bought a really horrible pair of Banana Republic jeans a few years ago. When they arrived I thought that the seller had mis-represented them, but after I compared what I got in the mail to the photo on eBay I realized I was the moron and had put on my eBay goggles.