The Pre-Vacation Push

The last few days have been pretty gruelling ones. I’ve done a huge push over the last week to wrap up all my pending projects so that I can jet off to Scotland and be in total vacation mode, knowing that all my various academic projects are wrapped. To that end, I reread/edited/revised all 300+ pages of my monograph to get it ready to send to a new publishing house, finally finished my article on elite women and anger (and shipped it off to a journal for publication consideration), and finished my paper for November’s upcoming North American Conference on British Studies. I’m exhausted but so happy to be work free for at least the next month or even two!

dress: Winners / cardigan: Pins + Needles / necklace: Aldo

Double the Obnoxiousness

Even though I already have a pair of plaid pants (which are SUPER obnoxious), I simply couldn’t resist this pair. I’m thinking I should bring them to Scotland with me…

pants: Old Navy / shirt: Simons / cardigan: Target / shoes: Target / necklace: Aldo / purse: Zara

Getting A Bit Frantic...

I can hardly believe I leave for Scotland in such a short amount of time! I am beyond excited, and frantically trying to finish up my article draft and upcoming conference paper so that I am embark for a truly stress free vacation in my favourite place in the world.

And all that brings me to these photos. As you can see, I am standing in front of a shopping cart stand. That’s because I got so busy with the article draft and then having to dash out to buy toiletries for the trip that I totally spaced on outfit photos and it all resulted in this particularly glamorous location.

skirt: Vero Moda / shirt: Target / jacket: H&M / sunglasses: Aldo / necklace: Monserat de Lucca

All the Frills: Swan Song

The one and only thing I will miss about summer (aside from camping that is) is painted toenails and being able to wear sandals to show them off. This is it, my swan song to summer!

Weekend Reading:

• I always knew Yale has an amazing library system…I miss it so!
  
• I’ve done some rudimentary examinations of incorruptible saints in my academic work and it’s a fascinating topic. These images are equally amazing.
  
• Some women are tweeting Donald Trump about their periods. I love it. Because, let's be honest: "Deez Nutz" is only a slightly less legitimate Presidential candidate than Donald Trump.
• Cats, cats, cats!!!!
  
• This guy posing as a Target employee and sassily responding to angry (and idiotic) customers is just delightful.
  
• So this story about a woman having a stone fetus is insane.

Dilly Dally

I wore this out to see a few bands play with some friends and discovered the amazingness of a band called Dilly Dally. They were beyond amazing. I love it when I am pleasantly surprised by new music.

leggings: ASOS / boots: Target / shirt: Target / purse: Zara / sunglasses: Aldo / coat: found at a bar

Explorations

There are some amazing wooded areas in my neighboured, part of a creek area. This past weekend I went out and did a little exploring - looking, I admit, a tad like a slob, but whatever.

pants: RW and Co / shirt: Yale / hoodie: American Apparel / shoes: Toms

All the Frills: The Writing Edition

Because I’ve been killing myself lately with my various writing projects (my monograph, a conference paper, and an article), I’m taking a moment today to remind myself of how good it feels when projects like these actually get finished and you get the satisfaction of putting them out into the world. And what better way to do that than to take a nostalgic look back at the projects I have finished? To that end, I give you a sampling of my finished work – including three dissertations and a couple of published articles. This does not include the estimate 100+ (at least) papers for courses that I've done during the course of my 12 years of university. Now, onwards and upwards.

Weekend Reading:

• These photos are just amazing.
  
• The disturbing (well, from my vantage point at least) rise of plastic surgery among the young.
  
• This piece about the ways in which hate speech can be normalized is depressing.
  
• This Waist Genie is seriously the creepiest product ever.
  
• Meet the guy who voiced Bambi.
  
• The super interesting intersection between art history and food (well, fruit) history.

The Statement Pants

I’ve featured them before on the blog and here they are again – the most obnoxious pants on the face of the planet. Aren’t they glorious?

pants: Simons / shirt: ASOS / jacket: found at a bar / shoes: Winners / necklace: Aldo / purse: Zara

Sequin Pick Me Up

Sometimes you just need to wear some sequins. You know I’m right.

dress: ASOS / leggings: Target / cardigan: Pins + Needles

All the Frills: The Patterned Blazer

I’ve done an outfit post with this blazer but I wanted to focus on it up close and personal in this week’s All the Frills because I have just been wearing the hell out of it lately.

I basically (for the most part) wear all black, all the time and the pattern on this just adds a little zing to those basic black looks that are wardrobe staples for me. Plus it’s really lightweight and just perfect for summer wear – I’ve been getting a lot of use out of it at work.

Weekend Reading:

• Man, some of these insults are cutting!
  
• So I know this young woman hired a hit man and everything but I can’t help feeling sorry for her.
  
• This article about the surprising finds associated with the excavation of the graves of some of Jamestown’s leaders is pretty interesting.
  
• And if you read the article above and want to know a bit more about that church they discovered (I know I did), here you go!
  
• Some of these tweets are awesomely funny.

Flatliners

I have a pretty large collection of band t-shirts but I don’t really get many opportunities to wear them (what with work and all) so when one of those odd occasions did arise, I had to commemorate it. Do any of you own many pieces that you just can’t get a lot of wear out of?

pants: Zara / boots: Camper / blazer: H&M

Wedding Wear

So I went to a wedding recently. And this guy there, a guest, was wearing a t-shirt (who wears a t-shirt to a wedding?) that said “Bitches be trippin’... except when I push them.” It was super classy. He's basically my new best friend. Anyways, this is what I wore to the ceremony … I’ve never felt more like a Real Housewife than I do in this dress.

dress: H&M / sandals: Target / necklace: Express