May 17, 2005

Shirt Skirt Shoes Tights

This "found" item is a bit hard to describe. The author is attending a conference or meeting of some kind and has made some preparatory notes on a computer-printed page. One side of the page is a print-out of a "thank you for your payment" webpage from AmEx. (The amount is $185.88 - perhaps for the plane ticket: there is an "AA conf#" written on a post-it affixed to the page.) On this page is written:

cute skirts, shirts, shoes, jewelry
medicine
toiletries
present
Lee's #/Max & Leslie
baby powder & wax
walkman/CDs
Kendra #
computer
papers
earplugs

On the other side is printed a schedule of activities, arranged in a grid. The dates run down the left side, and there are four columns: "Team Leader"; "Summarizer-Requires Computer Access"; "Concept Generator"; and "Correspondent-requires computer access".

The idea is clearly to fill in the blank cells with the names of the people handling these roles for the given day, or perhaps with activities or tasks. But instead, our author has used it to plan her daily wardrobe for the event. So she has replaced the categories "Team Leader", "Summarizer", and so forth with these categories: Shirt; Skirt; Shoes; Tights.

Here are the resulting outfits:

Monday, Dec. 12:
brown; pinstripe; red; tights

Tuesday, Dec. 14:
green suede; brown; boots; undershirt & tights

Wednesday, Dec. 15:
denim; dress; boots; undershirt tights

Thursday, Dec. 16:
black sweat; black pants; red; undershirt

Fri. Dec. 17:
spts bra/Tshirt; workout pants; tennis; socks

Posted by Dr. Frank at May 17, 2005 04:32 PM | TrackBack
Comments

We want Ellie! We Want Ellie! Where's my Burrito?!

Posted by: josh at May 17, 2005 05:30 PM

yeah, when's the next ellie episode?

Posted by: kendra at May 17, 2005 09:07 PM

good god, monday's outfit sounds horrendous.

brown shirt, pinstripe skirt, red shoes?!

that person should thank her lucky stars that she lost that plan!

Posted by: r a e d y at May 17, 2005 11:11 PM

oh, i don't know... we know, at least, that the skirt has to be cute. for she packed no other kind.

Posted by: jodi at May 18, 2005 02:56 AM

true, true. i do similar things when writing to do lists: "write intelligent paper". that doesn't, unfortunately, magically make the paper intelligent. trust me.

brown and red though? yuckie.

Posted by: r a e d y at May 18, 2005 03:09 AM

Awright, Frank. You've convinced me.

From now on, everything goes into the shredder: grocery lists, doodles, notes, mathematical scratchings---everything. And when I die I'm having my diaries destroyed.

I don't want them ending up in a junk shop in Berkeley.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at May 18, 2005 03:45 PM