I must now be prepared to do a public appearance at any moment, so I’m always overdressed, heavily made up and bedazzled with all sorts of jewelry. Colleagues and students look at me like I’m weird, and I probably am in this ready-for-TV getup at 8 o’clock in the morning.
I always secretly wanted to be a pundit, and the dream is coming true in this unexpected way.
When my kids used to go clothes shopping with me, they’d go down the rack and find the most sparkly, sequin-heavy thing on the entire rack: “Mama, you should get this one! You’d be so pretty!”
You’re wearing that shirt in today’s interview, and… it’s making me wish I had taken the kids up on it, just once 😉 You know what it is, though, it’s that the gold trim on the neck matches your current hair color so in effect you get a frame all the way around your face. The camera is liking it.
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And who’s the absolute scrooge who downvoted this post? It’s such an innocent little dream. How can it bother anybody, especially since I’m punditing on the other side of the world.
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