I would also be overdressed for the setting.

Eff the setting, IJS.

I love team overdressing! I went to rock shows in full formal-wear not once but twice! Love. I never pull stuff like that now. I have become old and stodgy.

Hee! I should not have made such a blanket statement - I know better!!

I have a very rounded-out behind. The Trixie dress is very unflattering to my behind because the waist hits at just the wrong place on my lower back/ass-shelf. Which pulls the back of the dress up and creates an odd, reversed asymmetrical hemline on me that a-line skirts don't do for some reason. I worry the Peterman dress will do the same now cause it looks like the waist would hit in the same way.

Yeah, it sounds like maintaining that insurance may need to be high on your priority list, possibly above school.

I'm thinking I need to send in the check for next month. I have a roof and clothes and I think my sister would feed me if I really couldn't afford to pay. I'm worried about the credit card bills and car insurance more. I can cover for a month but after June I won't have the COBRA anymore. I could just kick myself for not finding temp or part-time work while I had it!

I want this dress for my May NYC trip.

I do not want my current ass. So I'm trying to make a deal with myself that if I lose weight in the next five weeks, I'll treat myself.

When I was in college several of us would, on occasion, dress for dinner. Long dresses for the girls, some of the boys had gone to a local thrift shop and gotten tuxedo jackets ... which did lose something worn with jeans. One had bought a tail coat which, with jeans and boots, left him looking rather like a ringmaster. We'd get together, have sherry before dinner, then go to the dining hall for dinner.

Certainly made food service dinners more palatable.

I want this dress for my May NYC trip.

Oh, I love that. I may need to get it for my birthday trip in September.

I'm still trying to work LA casual. I have a million black dresses I wore all the time in NYC that seem overdressed here. I just broke out some high boots with a skirt and had to explain myself. And the worst part is, people here won't admit it! They think you can "wear what you want" here, which is not even true.

I would also be overdressed for the setting.

Eff the setting, IJS.

I side with ita on this, much to no one's surprise.

Team Overdressing FTW!

My sister Helena Handbasket has an interview question.

She had a job interview last Tuesday and realized that she forgot to send a thank you note. The interviewers said that they would be deciding on the position early this week.

Our mother thinks that it is too late and she shouldn't send anything.

I think she should send an email thank you immediately and a mailed one as well.

I should note that as a nurse, Helen will be aiming to get a job at this hospital, regardless of whether she gets this job. She also particularly wants to work in this unit and so will be applying to this unit again.