Wednesday, August 24, 2005

lesson #194: curious and curiouser

This was on MSN Today:


Fashion Profiles: Your Sun Sign Predicts What You Should Wear


Libra


The Scales make the best shopping buddy. Because of your excellent taste, off-the-rack is usually not quite good enough. Friends and family know to come to you during a fashion crisis, if they have the time to wait for you to make up your mind (Haha. How true!). Standing in front of your closet in the morning is a case of so many choices, so little time (truer and truer...). You know everything in there works, the trick is to decide which one works best today. When your paycheck comes, you go shopping, and darn any price tag that gets in your way. You're a trendsetter when it comes to spicing up a classical look. Always tailored and impeccable, you still manage to keep up with the hottest trends in your own way. There's no throwing on an outfit in the morning, you put yourself together so you're head-to-toe in synch.


There are no extraneous piercings on your body, if you have an earring in your right ear, there's one in your left as well (Hmmm. How did they know these things??). Everything you wear is balanced, from your choice of color to the distance between the pinstripes on your suit. Your makeup is so impeccable that it almost looks like you're not wearing any (I do wear make-up, OK! It's just very subtle...). Jewelry, too, only serves to highlight your best features. The rich shade of the sapphire works best with your desire for comfortable blue tones (Eck. This one's wrong). Libra loves to shop, and it shows.


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Have been assigned a big locker at school, equipped with a shoe compartment and enough space for clothes-hanging. I'd say - a big locker today, a walk-in closet tomorrow! Can't wait to buy textbooks so that I can put them in the locker. Which is completely the wrong reason to buy texts, eh?


While reading Sherlock Holmes (no school today!) I discovered that the book Curious Incident copied its title from a phrase in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.


Excerpt from The Memoirs... By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze -
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.


And I realise I'm still at heart a groupie. I love Sherlock Holmes and want to marry him. Haha. Must add this to my birthday wishlist: Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol II.