"Dresses are much harder to get than boys"

Friday evening I had an intense craving for french fries and ice cream, as well as a $10 gift certificate in my possession from winning the library's guess-how-much-candy-in-a-jar contest, so KT & I went to pre-teen central: the mall.

She bought chicken and noodles from some Asian place while I waited a gazillion years for a paper boat of freshly-made french fries accompanied by a little cup of cheese wiz.

Yum. So we ate and talked and I stared at the cute guy sitting a couple tables away who reminded me of someone else.

Then we decided it would be fun to look at prom dresses, because we are teenage girls and that's the sort of thing we enjoy. So we went to Macy's and I tried on a pretty cute $30 [!] dress, but it wasn't quite prommy enough [Semi-formal is, I believe, the word I'm searching for].

After exhausting their fairly meagre selection and laughing at the mannequins with the ridiculous purple hair, we went to Bloomingdale's, where gorgeous, expensive dresses abounded. [As well as a few ridiculous, expensive dresses.]

Armed with cameraphone, I tried on some dresses and eventually fell in love with the one below with a glorious tulle ballerina skirt. There's a sale on my birthday, so we'll see.

After KT made an emergency phone call to her m. to purchase the perfect prom dress, we went to FYE & I cashed in my gift certificate for The Beginning Stages of....

And then we had ice cream at Ben & Jerry's and went home. A good night, all in all.

On Saturday, I watched Mulan II with Ryan. Worst. Disney straight-to-video/DVD sequel. Evar. And we watched clips of Harold & Maude, Prangstgrüp movies, and listened to his Natural Voice Text to Speech Reader say silly things.

I have a phone interview with a Penn alumnus in an hour and a half. And I feel like shite. Which makes me kind of regret not going to school last Wednesday because now I have to go to school no matter how sick I am, so I don't miss more work/gain a reputation as a truant [although this kid has pretty much everyone beat]. But whatevz, never fear, I'll suck it up. & hopefully it'll go away in time for my birthhhhhhday. & I think I'm having a birthday party the evening of March the 5th. So don't make other plans, pliss. Kthxbai.