Do These Duck Boots Make My Butt Look Big?

January 2, 2010

Lordy, I can’t believe tomorrow, 7:45 a.m., I leave for my January residency in Vermont at VSC.
Can’t believe the day is already (almost) here.
The photo on the left is one of the buildings  but imagine it with snow and the river frozen. Fun!

I think i’m ready. Today we went out and bought these slippers for me from L.L.Bean (great sale going on). They are really really comfortable. As well as a neon lime-green fleece blanket, another pair of thermal bottoms, winter gloves, toe warmers. I don’t know how i’m getting all of this up there. I’ve already sent a box of books from San Diego and I have two rolling suitcases. Yes, I AM that person with the two rolling suitcases. I just didn’t know what to bring. I’m from California! Yes, I lived in NYC for  years but it never got THAT cold. Well, one year we had a blizzard and a ton of snow but I had my duckboots.

So now i’ve got a bunch of mis-matched winter clothes: Ted’s blue down jacket that probably makes me look like a kid wearing his dad’s dinner jacket, my HUGE brown LL Bean duck boots that make me look like a  Transformer, black gloves (on sale), a bright orange knit hat, long blue striped scarf that I got when I was at Columbia; I’m going to be that ragamuffin–there’s always one in the group.
Might have to send a box back to San Diego with stuff I don’t need– or make Ted take it back for me. Ted, by the way, fixed my blog–apparently it was all messed up; of course I didn’t notice it, Ted being the techie in the family.