My teeny skirt is shorter than where my fingertips fall at my thighs' side. But if I can't bend over in it without flashing underwear, it's too short. Or if I have to have it sit below the top of my pelvic girdle, it's also too short. Those skirts just drift right up on me.

I don't think Empire waists look good on me, but I can't remember actually having one on my body. I feel like, if you can't see my waist, I just look like an enormous lump.

In other 80s-ish news, my mother got me an oversized, bat-wing-ish sweater for Christmas that could not have looked worse on me. Made me look enormous. Luckily she agreeed, and bought it back from me.

I just had two "so, I heard you put in your two weeks!" conversations in a row. And in two more hours, I get to go to the dentist.

Whee.

man did that show RULE

I actually still have vague memories of the original (and, before Saturday, only) showing of that special back in 1972, most likely reinforced by repeated listenings of the soundtrack album (so much so that I can tell you exactly where the record skipped in the beginning of "Son of a Preacher Man"). But even with knowing the album backwards and front, it still didn't occur to me that her rendition of "Mammy" was her tribute to Judy until I saw it again on Saturday. Duh!

Empire waists look terrible on me. I am small-busted and very long-waisted. I actually don't like them on most people; I like waists.

I think I have a long torso and a high waist. I keep forgetting. However, very little fits me at the waist--so it looks like I don't have one most of the time anyway. So I might as well not hide the breasts. I gotta have some feminine features. I think it's easier to extrapolate me having a waist if my breasts aren't obscured. And it only looks like I have hips if I make a clear narrow point somewhere on my torso. Waist is best, but under the breasts works fine.

I am small-busted and very long-waisted.

Me too! Drop waists actually looked much better on me than fitted-waist dresses or empire waists (which make me look pregnant--when I was 12, I had a roller-coaster operator forbid me entry to the ride because she thought I was preggo, and I was just fat and wearing a empire-waist shirt).

I love the teeny tiny denim skirt. But then again my fashion choices, especially during the summer, tend to run toward the "How close to nekkid without actually being nekkid can I get?" variety.

A fact that even casual observers appreciate profoundly.

In 1979, I had yellow and green plaid polyester shorts. I also had navy blue, brown and red and green plaid pants that were worn with a dakr green turtleneck.

Thank god I was 4 and was not in charge of the contents of my wardrobe.

Dear people,

I do not have the ability to travel forward in time. It is not on my job description. Therefore, if I cannot do something to an account that does not yet exist.

me

I do not have the ability to travel forward in time. It is not on my job description.

Can you travel back in time? 'Cause that's the skill I'm lacking right now. (Due date for a document to go online? March 31. When the editor says she'll get me the files to start on the document? Sometime next week.)