more Bonnie funnies...

Have to post what my daughter posted in her blog today...she starts out serious and moves quickly into hilarious:

First off, the three most important pieces of new information about my life that I have failed to write on livejournal due to an extended hiatus:

1) I have a boyfriend.
2) I have a summer job.
3) I got into the St. Andrews study abroad, which means I am definitely going to be abroad for a year.

So, to say things are going along swimmingly is an understatement. While #1 takes the shine a bit off #3, overall things decided to really go my way in the space of about 3 weeks. The study abroad is good (living with British students! seeing my cool older brother!), the summer job is very good (intern in a small financial advising company--interesting and challenging work!) and the boyfriend is very, very good (best boyfriend a girl could ask for).

In less good news, I have recently discovered the reason for the hideously ugly patchwork shorts that have appeared on campus. Not since the days of the dead-animal-clutching-to-your-leg boots has a fashion trend this horrendous struck the Colgate campus. Guys are wearing these shorts not only because they are from Jcrew (the official Colgate brand if there ever was one) they are also called...wait for it, wait for it...Colgate Madras Patchwork Shorts! IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND DEAR, WHAT HAS THIS CAMPUS DONE TO ANGER THE JCREW GODS!?!?!? WE WILL BUILD YOU AN ALTAR OF UGGS AND POPPED COLLARS IF YOU HEAR OUR PRAYERS AND STOP ATTACHING OUR NAME TO SHORTS THAT BUMS WOULD REFUSE TO WEAR!! On the bright side, maybe it's a good thing I decided to go to Colgate over Dartmouth, since if I had chosen Dartmouth I would have surely been blinded by the Dartmouth madras patchwork pants, something even more grotesque than the Colgate shorts, a feat which I didn't think was possible. Seriously, why are people paying $59.50 (for the shorts) to $78 (for the pants) for articles of clothing which appeared to be made by the same person who did Sasha Cohen's outfits who we all know was a blind hobo!.

Comments

[tracy]

I have nothing clever to add....I just read this and instantly wanted to call my 15 yr old from hawaii....
thanks for sharing, sweetie.
oxox
ps. how awesome that she thinks her older brother is "cool"....you couldn't ask for more. :)

[Melanie (aka Wee)]

Does Bonnie know you read her blog? If so... man, yoou two have some rocking relationship! I would cringe, curl up and die if I had a blog when I was in college and I knew my mom was reading it. Even now, as I edge ever closer to forty, I am extremely relieved that my mother is thechnically challenged and has yet to figure out how to program her VCR let alone tackle the blogosphere. Bad enough that she KNOWS about it and that her friends read it!! (One is never to old to desire their mother's approval) 'Course, I think I went thru many more utterly cringe-worthy states when I was Bonnie's age, trying out the whole artist/writer persona and all that THAT implies in the way of frighenting politics and scarier fashion.

xo!

[Marilyn]

I'll be curious to hear how #1 affects #2 and #3. (Unless he's miraculously a Portlander who'll also be at St. Andrews next year.) ;)

[tinker]

What's coming back next? Avocado leisure suits?
Your Bonnie has a cute sense of humor and it sounds like she's having a great time.

[leslie]

My sister and I call people who wear stuff like this 'fashion victims'...pretty sad, to say the least.

[Tonya]

Whoa. Why does "trendy" have to be so "ugly"? Was it always that way? Well, probably. (i.e., bell bottoms). But, but...

So! Bonnie has a boyfriend! And she sounds pretty darned smitten! How exciting for her! She's really in her prime time!

[Margaret]

Bonnie is correct-those are the ugliest shorts and pants that I have ever seen. Anyone who would wear them is definitely a slave to fashion. I have worn some trendy things like platform shoes, but nothing that looked like THAT!