I would recommend perhaps some sulking and then also some fun?

I'm having the apartment complex geek girl collective over to watch the BBC Three Musketeers (and share the cookies), which should be fun.

That does sound fun! And, oh, right, I meant to watch that for, I believe, the Eccleston.

I went to a prep school (boarding, but not me - my mother taught there), and until my senior year we had to dress for dinner - jacket and tie for boys, skirt or you could wear a blazer with pants for girls. The raggedy-ass outfits people put together that technically met the dress code finally drove them to reduce dressing to Mondays only in my senior year, and use tablecloths in the dining halls, and people would actually try to look nice, and it was sort of charming.

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I'm on a bus! They're much less skeezy than when I last traveled interstate on one.

I am shocked every time it's brought to my attention that kids can wear shorts to school. Some people agitated for that in middle school, because hot, but there was no way. And my high school had a strict and specific dress code - pants down to the ankle, shoulders covered, no bandanas (because gangs), I forget what the rule was for skirts but I'm sure there was one, no hats indoors, etc.

Yay for the non-skeezy bus!

My school technically had a rule against hats, but nobody ever really cared about it.

The main thing I recall was no gothic lettering, as we had local gang issues. Forbidding shorts or tanks would have caused a riot.

My mother had to bring me a change of clothes once because I wore knickers, the kind that button under the knee. Everyone (including, as I recall, the vice principal who was doing the enforcing) thought it was pretty ridiculous, but rules are rules.