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American Apparel Thermochromatic Jersey T Shirt!
Thank God I am moving to Pittsburgh, where I won't have this insidious habit of constant clothes-shopping compromising my otherwise staunchly anti-capitalist ideals. My roommate Tim and I found a very nice apartment on the border between Oakland and Shadyside early on in our search, so rather than apartment-hunting, I spent the last couple of days of my most recent Pburgh trip stomping around Oakland (PA, not CA) in cute but highly uncomfortable slingbacks purchased during the NYC trip. The bad news is that all cute-shoe-wearing will have to end in light of the snow, rain, growing bone spurs on my feet (gross, I know), and the intimidating hill I will have to conquer every day to get to class. The good news is in that all the clothing stores I passed, I saw not a single piece of clothing I was aching to buy. It's Crocs for the next four years! (The new fancy kind though ... also bought a pair during the NYC trip ... will be OK to wear when seeing patients, I'm sure!)
Oh, but wait. There is actually an American Apparel store, on the Pitt campus. Gosh darn it.
Other wonderful things about Pittsburgh:
1) In summer, it's significantly cooler than Baltimore.
2) The Mattress Factory. My new favorite place to go again and again. Definitely not the SFMoMA, but it's like comparing apples and oranges: the Mattress Factory has an intimacy that a huge institution like SFMoMA can't replicate.
3) I found this awesome used bookstore. Can't remember what it's called, unfortunately, but it's stuffed full of books, but organized and without that dusty used-book-store smell that makes my allergies go crazy. I bought 3 books for super-cheap: "The Confessions of Nat Turner," a collection of short stories called "Sightseeing" (about modern Thailand), and a collection of poems by Rumi, which I may give to a certain someone as a belated birthday present if we ever stop being mad at each other. My one complaint is that I had a hard time finding books about Asia; and there was also a section that promised "'60s Culture, Drugs" which I failed to locate.
Thank God I am moving to Pittsburgh, where I won't have this insidious habit of constant clothes-shopping compromising my otherwise staunchly anti-capitalist ideals. My roommate Tim and I found a very nice apartment on the border between Oakland and Shadyside early on in our search, so rather than apartment-hunting, I spent the last couple of days of my most recent Pburgh trip stomping around Oakland (PA, not CA) in cute but highly uncomfortable slingbacks purchased during the NYC trip. The bad news is that all cute-shoe-wearing will have to end in light of the snow, rain, growing bone spurs on my feet (gross, I know), and the intimidating hill I will have to conquer every day to get to class. The good news is in that all the clothing stores I passed, I saw not a single piece of clothing I was aching to buy. It's Crocs for the next four years! (The new fancy kind though ... also bought a pair during the NYC trip ... will be OK to wear when seeing patients, I'm sure!)
Oh, but wait. There is actually an American Apparel store, on the Pitt campus. Gosh darn it.
Other wonderful things about Pittsburgh:
1) In summer, it's significantly cooler than Baltimore.
2) The Mattress Factory. My new favorite place to go again and again. Definitely not the SFMoMA, but it's like comparing apples and oranges: the Mattress Factory has an intimacy that a huge institution like SFMoMA can't replicate.
3) I found this awesome used bookstore. Can't remember what it's called, unfortunately, but it's stuffed full of books, but organized and without that dusty used-book-store smell that makes my allergies go crazy. I bought 3 books for super-cheap: "The Confessions of Nat Turner," a collection of short stories called "Sightseeing" (about modern Thailand), and a collection of poems by Rumi, which I may give to a certain someone as a belated birthday present if we ever stop being mad at each other. My one complaint is that I had a hard time finding books about Asia; and there was also a section that promised "'60s Culture, Drugs" which I failed to locate.