Caffeine and Uniforms

This blog has become my new caffeine. No, I'm not addicted to it (yet), but I found that it does wonders when it comes to waking me up.

I have been writing articles all day at my new internship, and although I downed a cup of coffee about 2 minutes ago, I still felt so sleepy reading webpage after webpage on the subjects for my articles. So I decided to write. (This might not make sense... writing to take a break from writing... but it's all about the what. Notice I even changed the color and font this time. Hey, a girl has got to find ways to stay enterntained. Come on now.)

I did have a few minutes of lucidity around 2:00 while I was eating my tasteless sandwich. The mere fact that I was about to have food kept me going from 1:43 to 2:01, when I caved in to my grumbling stomach, but then the people around me started having a discussion about poodle skirts, which slowly drifted into the ever interesting topic of school uniforms. This immediately caught my attention. One of the ladies me was talking about how the nuns at one of her schools inisisted that all skirts and dresses (no pants whatsoever) had to be long enough that they would touch the ground when the girls kneeled (I incidentally just found out that the past for kneel can be either "knelt" or "kneeled". interesting.) Then she talked about her other school, where girls still wore mini skirts but didn't know how to walk in them just yet (it's hard, give them some credit). So the boys would line up by the water fountains and wait for girls to come get a drink. How charming.

This whole conversation reminded me of my own high school experience. I went to two different HS, and at the first one we had a point system. I remember losing many a points to my "too-short" skirt (notice the " ". I still think that length was fine.) And then my second high school where that same length was actually considered too long by students, to the obvious distress of the staff. And now, that school has banned skirts. That's it. Finito. Only pants starting next year. man that's gonna suck. hehe Those girls better find a solution to hot summer days.

Now I've been accused of rambling on about random "bullshit", so as to please my readers (to a certain extent, since i've already rambled on) I will stop here. for now. Plus, I'm awake now and leaving the office in 18 minutes. Joy!