VICTORY!

Posted by beth on October 14, 2007

Oh, friends. Homecoming was, for lack of a better word, scrumtrulescent. We had such a blast. Tragically, however, I forgot my camera, so I don’t have any photos for you YET, but there were about four other girls there with cameras, so I’m sure I’ll get some pictures soon. We must have taken about a thousand with each camera of us displaying our spirit fingers toward the end of the game, which we won…and by “won,” I mean SPANKED. It was like 39-21 or something ridiculous. Then, we sang the alma mater with the cheerleaders, who thought we were not only dorky, but also insane. We told them to give it ten years. Then they’d understand. I doubt they believed us, but they’ll see. They will see.

I rushed out of my apartment in such a hurry Friday afternoon that I forgot not only my camera, but my letter jacket as well! And it didn’t take me that long to realize I’d left it, but by the time I did, I was on Wade, about to be on 40, and the traffic going the other way on 40 was hellacious, so I just decided to leave it.
Then, today at church, Whitney tells me that she and HP are going to have an intervention or something and take my letter jacket away from me. They say it’s time for me to give it up. They realize that I don’t wear it because I’m still hanging on to high school. They just think it detracts from (or is perhaps even an affront to) the rest of my wardrobe. I think it’s a coat, and a darn warm one.

I explained to Whitney that I usually wear the letter jacket when I’m feeling like a bum. Rarely do you find anything stylish underneath the letter jacket. When it comes out, it’s usually because I’ve donned nothing fancier than jeans, tennis shoes, a t-shirt and a hoodie, and really, I’d just feel silly wearing bummy clothes with a nice coat. The letter jacket really just fits the bill. When I wear something nicer, however, I usually wear a nicer coat. They go together. I suppose the reason I wear the letter jacket as much as I do during the winter is because I feel bummier more often during the winter, so if we need to work on something in my life, maybe it should be my winter blues and not my fashion. Because as we all know, my fashion is FINE.

Be honest, though. I’m opening up the polls. What do you think about the letter jacket? I realize that it confuses people who don’t know me, and who therefore get the wrong impression about its regular rotation in my winter wardrobe, but isn’t life more entertaining when you can throw people off a little sometimes? It is for me. Is that mean?