A Drowsy Numbness: Lies and Compensation with Regards to Coolness
A Drowsy Numbness: skirt (Anthropologie, $50), top (H&M, $9), jacket (gift), boots (random, $30ish), earrings (uummm...?), necklace ($1, thrifted).
"I'm very serious about this jacket. This is my melodious plot of beechen green."
As some of you may know, we grad students party like wild people. We’re pretty much out of control. The phrase “nerd alert”? That’s code for, “Look out, this party is about to get real!” Case in point: my adventures this Friday night. After folding laundry and making a giant pot of tomato spelt soup I lay on my living room rug, reading and re-reading Keats (“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense…”) and listening with rapt attention to Seamus Heaney’s Nobel lecture. There’s nothing more raucous than a rich Irish brogue and poetry laden with dryads and affect.
Okay, okay, I know. I’m about as exciting as a dial tone. ”Drowsy numbness” is right, Keats! But I compensate for my lack of bar dancing or beer guzzling by wearing a hodgepodge of neutrals with solar-system looking arts and craft project necklaces. That counts for something, right? If not, I’m screwed, because it’s Saturday night I’m already eyeing a volume of Rilke poems and a pile of pillows like there’s no tomorrow.
These pictures are so beautiful, especially the last one! But a $50 skirt?! That’s really expensive, especially for you!
It was expensive, and definitely pricey for me. In fact, it was on sale for $90, but I had a birthday coupon and they had an additional sale, so I ended up getting it for much cheaper. It was a splurge, but one I’m really glad I made. My addiction to prints, neutrals, skirts, maxi lengths, and silk were all satisfied by this one purchase.
It warms the cockles of my heart that you’re a kindred spirit in the love of Hearney’s voice. And that is one gorgeous skirt, m’dear.
I think that pretty much sounds like a perfect evening to me! I love the pictures too, autumn is so beautiful!
In Keat’s day you’d be considered a wild woman:) And you look pretty fabulous! I like the geometric pattern of the skirt.
Crap, I wrote Keat’s instead of Keats’. I can’t stand when I do that! hehe..
You have put together a nice outfit.
I started grad school this fall so I’m all about this kind of partying too. It’s to the point that when I actually have to go out (damn those out of town guests) I don’t want to!
Keep up your wild ways, lady!
I lol’ed throughout this entire post. At first I was like, ummm, my cohort is apparently doing it ALL WRONG until I tasted the sarcasm. I have to say that homemade tomato soup sounds pretty darn exciting compared to frozen tater tots and piles and piles of papers to grade.
Oooooh, tater tots! I haven’t had those since elementary school!!!
I recently bought that skirt too and am so excited to style it for fall, with boots and layering. The skirt has such great movement, doesn’t it? That sounds like my kind of party, except swap out the literature and swap in the math, LOL.
You pillow lust-er, you! Gorgeous outfit!
True story: Seamus Heaney has sung me “Happy Birthday.” A treasured memory indeed!
Love the earthy colors and geometric patterns here. It’s very retro in a way that I can’t quite pin down–maybe because of the slouchy boots and skirt? Anyway, it’s lovely. And that last picture in the golden light is just gorgeous.
JEALOUS! How’d you get that lucky?!
These photos are ridiculously beautiful. Maybe it’s the light, maybe it’s the lake, maybe it’s the subject…we’ll never know (spoiler: it’s the subject).
Holy cow – this outfit is so awesome. I love the print on your skirt — it looks so badass paired with that moto jacket. And your ruminations on graduate school life — ahh, I can totally relate.
Happy birthday, sartoriography! We should definitely team up forces for an anniversary celebration next year
For sure! Assuming I haven’t died under a pile of papers before then.
You look stunning in these photos. The light is perfect! So is the skirt.
Poetry is hot and so are you. That is all.
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Oh what beautiful photos…..and the skirt…….you know I love the patterns.
Actually, the whole outfit is perfect..
You are most lovely young lady, especially with the fall sunlight on you.
What else could anyone want….beautiful scenery…..haunting poetry and a stack of pillows.
Hi friend – I miss you. The amazing pics and your witty writing made me that much more apparent. Can we please plan something soon?
Yes, please! Same here.