45. Culture Shock Level Check: DONE

It's official. I'm certain of it. It's happened somehow, and I think I'm okay with it. How do I know for sure? Well, today I bought my first drug store clothing. You know the kind--it's in the seasonal clothing rack between the pharmacy and the canned food section; starched like your grandmother's tablecloth, and cheap, cheap, cheap. You run your had over it several times to make sure it isn't too scratchy or creepy feeling. It's classic, you think. Better than anything you've seen in Walmart or JCPenny's windows? Maybe. Any worse? No. Certainly not Anthropology, but it's okay.

I'm certain of it, and I'm okay with it, I think. Maybe it's the change of the season, you say. Maybe, but probably not, since it snowed a bit this afternoon while shopping at the Natural Food store run by Christian Scientists. It's more than that, though. Other signals that it's happening...Eating at Nell's Drive-On-Thru for two days in a row. Then...just this week-- listening to the wince-heavy college radio programs for more than four hours without changing the station to the I-pod.

"Are you okay?", you ask.
Just fine! Why?

xo, Ms. Jane D'oh


Flowering plums in our hood, El Big Spring 07






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