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Sunday, October 15, 2006
many random things
I have a spot on the side of my nose that I can see in my peripheral vision, which drives me batty. I have said it before, but I find it patently unfair of God to decree that I should have spots and wrinkles at the same time. Further, I far prefer the nice British-ish term "spot" to "zit". "Zit" sounds like the name of a dog in a 1950's sci-fi book, and yet paradoxically it always brings to mind a skinny fifteen-year-old with buck teeth, a prominent Adam's apple, and a loud way of guffawing at un-funny things.
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I have recently discovered that the style of jeans I wear are called "Mom jeans" by the youth of America. In spite of a) my persistent belief that the waist of pants should sit at the waist of the woman, and that any other place looks kind of ridiculous, and b) my insistence that, not being in high school, I don't have to care what other people think of my clothes as long as they are clean and in good repair, this disturbs me a bit. Are "mom jeans" the embarrassment equivalent of the candy-apple-red, white-polka-dotted sheeny rayon pantsuit with the frilly cravat that my mother used to wear, until Jenn mercifully (but totally accidentally) put it out of its misery by dropping it into a serendipitously-placed pan of used motor oil in the laundry/utility shed when she lived with us during high school? If so, perhaps I should maybe go try on something that's mid-rise and straight-legged. Because that would be actually pretty bad.
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While we're discussing my lack of hipness, perhaps I should share that as I'm typing this, I'm listening to a Yanni song. Whoops, it just went to Loreena McKennitt. I don't think that brought me much higher on the hipness scale, but what do I know, in a world where jeans that show all your belly fat are preferable to ones that don't.
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I have stopped updating the librivox chapters in the blog. Not that anybody noticed. They're always available at the "my librivox recordings" link over on the right, if anyone's interested. I'm well over halfway done with both solo projects now and am planning to do Anne of Green Gables next.
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Oops, now it's Enya. This is far from the only kind of music I have on my computer. It's just what I felt like listening to while doing a negative-scanning job.
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This feels like the kind of note I would write when I was thirteen (on peach-colored binder paper, with big circles for dots on the i's), wherein I would announce at intervals what song was playing on the radio and how I felt about it. And yet... my friends still liked me. Crazy.
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OK, I have a bit of a literary question for all you brilliant English major types out there. Why, in "The Highwayman" (Loreena McKennitt's musical version of which I may or may not be listening to right now, at quite a loud volume for 11 PM), do the soldiers tie the musket to Bess, other than as a necessary plot device? How would that further serve their purpose than to simply gag and bind her? I do not understand. Not that I don't totally love that poem, in the same way that I love the impassioned music of the Romantic era. I'm just... wondering. Randomly.
Comments
Re: LibriVox, I have now recorded 1 chapter of "Dear Enemy", 3 chapters of "The Rosary" and have signed up for a chapter of "Jane Eyre". I'm LOVING this! :-D Thank you for introducing me to it.
Posted by: Maria at October 15, 2006 11:08 PM
Ooh, I thought Jane Eyre was full! Are there chapters left? ZOOMING over there...
Posted by: Rachel at October 15, 2006 11:10 PM
I don't think mom jeans are quite that embarrasing, no, although I prefer the "slightly below waist" boot cut ones myself.
I think the soldiers tied her up that way just to be... funny. "With many a sniggering jest" and all. They put her in a military position, with a rifle, to "keep watch," but of course she can't, since she's tied up. Does that make any sense?
And THANKS, now I know what CD I'm listening to next...
Posted by: Kat with a K at October 16, 2006 11:33 AM
Kat, thanks, that makes sense. I figured they tied her where she could see him coming through the window just to torture her a bit, and the sniggering and military position do seem to fit together just as you describe. Thank you for solving an issue that has nagged my poor harried brain since high school. :)
Posted by: Rachel at October 16, 2006 11:36 AM
I don't want my stomach to show, either, so I try to find "long" shirts to compensate for the lower waistline. I think it does the trick... except maybe when I have to reach for the top shelf in the grocery store, but anyone who's looking then deserves whatever s/he sees. ;o)
Posted by: Michael at October 16, 2006 12:15 PM
Rachel, I am going to level with you: I just got MY MOM out of Mom Jeans. The time has come. I think you'd be surprised at how much more comfortable mid-rise is; there's a world of difference between that and the jeans that make poor young girls look like plumbers.
If I were there, we would go shopping.
Don't worry about becoming trendy or something. Skinny jeans are coming back (BLECH!), and if the world goes that way, you and I can be frumpy in our mid-rise boot-cuts.
Posted by: Kristen at October 17, 2006 07:39 AM
Mom jeans. Ahh, but there are words for girls in those jeans with their bellies hanging over -- muffin top. Or they have "Dunlap disease" which you can take one of two ways: a spare tire OR (my favorite) "their bellies dunlapped over their pants". That said, I have to agree with Kristen -- I finally faced reality that I am NOT going to fit back into my pre-pregnancy pants and went and bought new jeans. They are a little below the waist and look and feel quite snazzy. I need to get over trying to pull them up, however. Like Michael, I try to find long enough shirts to cover any skin.
Of course, I am still sort of reveling in the fact that I again HAVE a waist. ;)
I will never fit in skinny jeans (I read somewhere that only REALLY REALLY SKINNY people should wear them. I am ... ahem ... not that) so I say go with Kristen's encouragement and try the lower rise ones.
Posted by: mary at October 17, 2006 04:10 PM
As someone who grew up with the pain of a tragically un-hip mom, I will also level with you. Mom-jeans are the equivalent of the red outfit you described. There is a wide range of jeans between momish and true low-riders, and in that range the jeans are actually much more flattering than both extremes. A pair that fits correctly won't squish out your belly, unless you're bending over and there is just no hope for that. And boot-cut makes everyone look taller and thinner, as long as the bottoms are just above or brushing the floor.
Posted by: megan Thompson at October 19, 2006 05:59 AM
