Thursday, October 29, 2009



One year ago, I was wearing this:




And tomorrow, I'll be trying to recreate this with some of my grad school friends:



I'll be Stacey McGill.

I could write a rather long entry on the formative role the Babysitters Club played in my upbringing, even going so far as to offer a second-year doctoral student analysis of the ways this series works to indoctrinate young girls into their socially acceptable gendered roles as caregivers while simultaneously encouraging capitalism and individual interprise. But it's 11 p.m. and I gots freshmen to teach in the a.m.

Instead, I'll leave you with: hot pink leggings WOO!

3 comments:

Audrey said...

Now this is funny. I can't wait to see the finished result!

Sarah said...

I always wondered who was letting a 12-year-old babysit.

megs said...

@Sarah: right! Things have changed, I guess. I remember babysitting multiple children, including INFANTS, when I was like 11/12. What were the parents in my neighborhood thinking? Oh yeah: they were thinking: "cheap."