{"id":254,"date":"2006-02-07T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/07\/pulling-my-weight\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T14:53:52","slug":"pulling-my-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/07\/pulling-my-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling My Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday was my big meeting with the guy from the financial office to review the revised budget I did for 2005\/06 and the new budget I created for 2006\/07. My predecessor assisted me with the early stages of the budget before she retired in December, but I was left to do the bulk of it.<\/P>
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I first ran it by my boss (the faculty director) who said it looked good. But the big meeting was to be with the financial office – and that was yesterday.<\/P>
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And it went exceptionally well! He’s making a few revisions to certain items (salary related) that I have no control over, but everything that I had done was done accurately. YAY ME!<\/P>
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And how did I celebrate? I went to class last night. Let the craziness begin.<\/P>
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Oh, and I’m going to gripe about clothes again, if you don’t mind. I feel like a broken record but this is really getting to me. For Christmas I received a gift certificate to L.L. Bean. I’ve been to the store once or twice and the only thing I’ve ever purchased there was a book bag…and that was 15 years ago. I went to the website during the holidays but was unable to buy anything because everything I was interested in was out of stock until February or March. Ugh.<\/P>
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I went back last week and found a few things that were available (two t-shirts, a polo style shirt and an oxford shirt). Going on my friend, Chris’, advice, I ordered everything in size small. I did this with great reservation because I just don’t think my frame is small. I’m average height and average weight so I’d think I would be a medium. For the oxford shirt, I was thrilled to see that you could customize it any way you wanted (so I could get a 15 neck and 36 arm, if I wanted). So, based on my horrible shirt-buying experience back in September, I ordered the 17 neck and the 32 arm.<\/P>
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The clothes arrived yesterday and all I can say is….WTF!?!?!?!<\/P>
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The two small t-shirts are ENORMOUS! I looked at the tags to make sure they sent the right size and they do, in fact, say “small”. I’ve not dared to try on the polo shirt yet. And then we get to the oxford that I ordered “custom”. I put it on over the clothes I was already wearing (because I was too lazy to remove them). The arm length was perfect. The neck size was perfect. But you could have fit two of me in thie rest of the shirt.<\/P>
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It went down practically to my knees and was just “wide” all around. I don’t get it. I mean, I can admit that I’m thin, but I’m in no way scrawny. And what about the length? Do they also expect that I’m 7 feet tall?  Seriously…look at the picture to the right (or in my photo gallery link on the top right). I’m average size. Why am I all of a sudden having no luck finding average clothes? L.L. Bean didn’t seem to offer any EXTRA small shirts…and to be quite honest, I’m not too keen about having to admit to wearing an extra-small shirt. It makes me feel like I should be shopping at Gap Kids.<\/P>
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Ugh. Now I’ve gotten myself angry.<\/P>
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