Oops, I Did It Again
This was my <gulp> eleventh year as a Catholic school girl. I’d like to point out the frequently underappreciated subtleties of this costume. The necklace that Emmit is grabbing is a St. Jude medal (the patron saint of lost causes; I used to always wear a cross, but they are all–yes, all, there are quite a few–at my parents’ house, as is my old class ring). In the top picture, you can just make out the black bra underneath the white shirt, and although you can’t see it in these pictures, I’m wearing boxer shorts underneath the skirt, and I tried to keep the skirt rolled up just high enough that the boxers peeked out. And I’ve apparently spent enough time around knocked up women to have their mannerisms down pat. Two different people asked me if I was really pregnant, and the people who knew I wasn’t kept telling me to stop touching my “belly” because it was creeping them out.
And so, for your amusement, here I am as a knocked up Catholic school girl. (Not as a pregnant Britney Spears, as one partygoer had guessed).
Happy Halloween!
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current book: I just started Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions on Friday, and I can’t put it down.
current music: Things were pretty quiet today, actually.
current socks: green, brown, and orange stripeys.
Posted 30 October 2006
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What a coincidence! It was a Catholic school girl gone bad repeat costume for my Halloween also! I was also pegged as Britney Spears (as has been the case since 1998 or so). To adequately inform people of my *actual* costume, I show people where my mom wrote my name in my high school Ursuline sweater, button down shirt and skirt to prove that I am, in fact, a Catholic school girl and not the infamous Britney.
I must admit it was kinda weird to wear that damn uniform in Dallas. Almost sacrilegious or something.
I lied, I took one year off (in the past ELEVEN years) from the Ursu-slut costume to be a little Jewish man. That costume turned out kinda creepy, but I was in China and they weren’t so familiar with the holiday and we didn’t have access to real costume fodder. I borrowed men’s clothes, hat, and painted on a beard. I think there are pics somewhere. Hmmm…
seriously?
both you & julie
have been catholic school girls
for 11 halloweens?
that is
one: lay. zee.
two: a cry for help to a therapist
three: kinda – i’m sorry to say – lame
[mostly because you were *actual* catholic school girls]
i just don’t know what to do with y’all
Oh, jaq!
11 Catholic-girls-a-whoring Halloweens is not lay.zee!
It just means that B and I are preserving and perfecting our legacy.
In the 4 years I legitimately wore the uniform (sans pregnant belly and trampy makeup), I did not utilize the uniform for Halloween. That has to count for something.
;)
i have to think about that one.
because…well,
of what legacy do you speak?
once a catholic school girl,
always a catholic school girl?
because then i need to look into my own dang soul,
which i think has had its inner c-s-g stamped out
[save my devotion to the saints!]
also…what does it mean
that josh was a c-s-g for this halloween?
some sad fable about
the jewish boy who wishes he was a c-s-g?
& not a very pretty one at that…