Back in Action

Yesterday was my first teaching day of the term.  This semester I'm teaching three different courses, one of which is cross-listed as a grad course, and I'm doing an independent study with a student.  I'm only teaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which has its advantages, but makes for a very long Tuesday.  One of my classes only meets once a week on Tuesdays and is almost four hours long.  My "spidey-senses" (one of my strengths according to a student evaluation from last semester) tell me that Tuesdays will present a fair number of pedagogical challenges and some sartorial ones as well.

On Tuesdays I'll need to balance my desire to rock the professartorial with the knowledge that being on campus from 9 in the morning until close to 10 in the evening will require comfortable clothing.  Yesterday I chose my trusty red pencil skirt and a soft silk blouse that I bought on my shopping expedition with Kristin. I wore the blouse while at the conference in Boston, but, since it's dry clean only, I wanted to get another wear out of it before sending it off to be laundered.  I resisted the urge to belt it and to just let it do its drapey magic.

 (Skirt -J. Crew (thrifted and remixed), Blouse - Sandra Angelozzi (Femme de Carriere), Boots - John Fluevog Bondgirls (remixed), Earrings - New York & Co., Ring - Boutique in Salamanca (remixed))

Nutty or on Cold Meds?  You decide!

My sartorial goal for the next few weeks is to wear a number of items that I purchased pre-GAAD that have been worn rarely or never.  Because, honestly, I can probably shop my closet for at least a month before I'll run out of such items.  And hopefully by then this whole no shopping thing will be old hat and I'll have a better handle on some of the other line items in my scholarly budget.  Did you set any sartorial resolutions for the new year?