I kind of went on a shopping spree at the end of P3 year. All the way from Goodwill to Target. Actually just those two places. Spent like, a hundred dollars. And picked up like fifteen pounds of business casual. <\/p>\n
You see, I never actually bought a shirt before. Like, by myself. So this was quite the big-boy activity for me. Up til then, all my shirts were hand-me-downs from my uncle (15½, 33\/34). You may have noticed me wearing one of those excessively baggy dark blue shirts on lab days at Purdue.<\/p>\n
So after willingly setting foot in a fitting room, I finally found out what shirt size I am. (14½ 32\/33 on low humidity days and barring large meals.) <\/p>\n
I also came to a startling revelation about what t-shirts I’d been wearing. With all the free t-shirts in high school and at Purdue, I equivocated between an adult medium and large t-shirts. Why? Because the shirts I got from Mom were medium and larges. They were hand-me-downs (probably from the very same uncles.) and I never questioned why my t-shirts didn’t fit me. So when it came time for me to choose my own size of t-shirt (yay, Robotics team) I went with large because that’s what I had become accustomed to. Despite how baggy they were. I never knew that they weren’t supposed to be that baggy so I just accepted it. And then I attend a big ten university for a couple of years, and came to the shocking realization a year ago that I’m an adult small. <\/p>\n
Now the pants were a different story which was almost entirely the same. I had been wearing 32\/33 everything for a while. Then through the magic of fried food, high fructose corn syrup and puberty, I lost all of my freshman-year-dining-courts weight. No, really, my diet consisted solely of BLTs, chocolate milk, and cereal and all I did besides my internship was play Fallout 3. Ended up dropping to a perfect 30×30 (barring humidity and large meals). Not “skinny jeans skinny” (NEVER!) but a better-looking cut for sure.<\/p>\n
It’s also kind of annoyingly metaphorical. (I know! Enough with the symbolism, right?) that back during this time in pharmacy school when I was so misanthropic toward pharmacy people. I didn’t even fit in my own clothes, much less my burgeoning profession. And it wasn’t until I found my own self-worth and abandoned cynicism that things turned around and I literally began to “fit”.<\/p>\n
I’m beginning to think I have a problem with literary motifs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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