Minneapolis Woman Raids Local Thrift Store for Ugly Neckties

Arc's Value Village sells bags of neckties (approx 8-10 per bag) for $1.69. I saw them when I went there last week, but I didn't pick them up. But then I went home, and thought, man, I could make something really cool with those ties. (Like, ahem...a bag?) So, I went back there and loaded up on about 7 bags of them. Last night I began sewing them together length-wise to make a skirt (using the points as the hem). I had so much fun that I went back tonight and bought all the rest of the bags. Now I'm starting to get one of my crazy ideas...I'm thinking about sewing a blazer to match the skirt, so I have a tie-suit. Get it? (It's a social commentary on the historical domination of males in the legal profession, duh.)

See, this coming fall, second-year students have OCI (on-campus interviews), and all the big firms come to campus, and you give them your resume and crap, and they size you up, interview, etc, to offer summer clerkships for the following summer. I plan to do OCI, why not. Anyhoo, our career services lady is kind of strange about some things, and she insists that everybody wear a blue suit for OCI. This isn't a joke. She read some study that blue suits are best to wear for interviews or something. So she provided a list of things that we are REQUIRED to have for OCI--a leather portfolio, a writing sample, etc. etc., and a blue suit. The tone of these instructions was such that one fully expects to be disqualified from OCI if one refuses to purchase the requisite blue suit. What, are we flight attendants? I think this is ludicrous. Why do I have to go out and buy a blue suit, when I have a perfectly good hot pink skirt-suit? (Bah-hah! Just kidding, but I do have a snappy little black wool skirt-suit that I plan to wear.) So I'm thinking, out of pure piss and vinegar, I'll wear the tie-suit. That will pretty much guarantee that I'm setting up a corn-dog stand right next to Greg after I graduate, but he says it's not so bad.