Fashion Rut? Fashion Rut.

Despite my desire to create a nice documentation of my personal style, this clearly hasn't been happening so well.  Part of that is just due to sheer busy-ness, and stressing about being able to finish my qualifying projects/papers in a timeline that is satisfactory to my advisors.  The other is that I feel like I'm in a bit of a fashion doldrums lately.

A contributing point seems to be that I gained about 7 pounds over Christmas break.  As a result, I came back and realized my skirts were all kind of uncomfortably tight.  Now, it's not that I can't get into them, but they really cut into my abdomen more than I am okay with.  I'm really in awe of people who can withstand all that pressure on the belly... I just can't T_T  As a result, the number of pieces I can actually wear without pain has been diminished by about 80%.

The cold weather has also been a bit of a pain.  Tights with wool OTKs over them, with flannel bloomers, is sufficient for staying warm and comfortable, but I only have 2 pairs of wool socks, which isn't nearly enough for wearing every day >_<  Time to get more, I suppose.

In any case, not only have I not had time to document any style, I also just haven't been wearing anything I really consider interesting.  I've been too exhausted to think much about my clothes, and I'm currently still on a diet to try to get an inch or so off my waist so I can wear my skirts non-painfully again.  I love Lolita as much as ever, but I think it's just going to have to wait until I have the energy and body to wear it on a daily basis again.  Hopefully I'll pick myself back up soon and start being a bit more creative with my outfits, because I really enjoy it, and it would probably actually help relieve stress.

>_<

Little linguist in Pittsburgh-land

I've been busy busy busy lately, going essentially straight from my winter break travels straight into the long drive to Pittsburgh for the annual Linguistics Society of America meeting.  It was my first LSA, and boy was it exhilarating (and exhausting)!  It was like a gigantic buffet for my brain, and I'm pretty sure it over-ate :-P

In any case, it was tons of fun, I learned about lots of new research, and I got to meet a lot of fellow linguists!!

I'm planning/writing a more fashion-related post that is relevant to the LSA and my academic life in general, but for now, here's a couple of snaps of Pittsburgh scenery that I took from our hotel room window.

The river:

Heinz Stadium:

"The Point":

The outline of Fort Pitt:

The bridge: