A Trad Confused

The journey of a bipolar Sartorialist.

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Education update

culturaloffering:

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Harvard has done students a great service by preparing them for holiday conversations with cattle back home.  Using a handy place mat in the dining halls, no less.

Now the college students will be ready to set the rubes back home straight on important social justice and international topics.

Harvard explains:

Associate Director of Communications Rachel Dane confirmed the placemats were created by the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in collaboration with the Freshmen Dean’s Office.

“The project came about as we thought together about how we can acknowledge the issues happening nationally and internationally and was intended to provide a framework to help first-year students with potentially difficult conversations during their first visits back home,” Dane told Campus Reform.

This is so absurd I had to check to make sure it wasn’t a spoof.

Nope.

Thanks, Charles.

This is absolutely terrible. A universities roll is to be a place of ideas, this is pure programming! There’s no longer a line between how to think, and what to think. This is worse than that, it’s not even what to think, it’s what to say. WTF.

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justbudfox:

thesehiddenthings:

I have yet to listen to any Christmas music.

This is super abnormal

Same. Oddly there’s no “just have the holidays whenever you’re ready” option. We’re stuck with “NOW.”

I’m idly contemplating telling everyone I’ve converted to Eastern Orthodox and doing it in January.

Listened to the Elf soundtrack all day! 

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Compared the J.Press X Southwick flannel sack blazer and the Brooks Brothers 1818 sack blazer, in Loro Piana fabric. I decided on the Brooks. Besides being more climate appropriate, it was less $ and had a better fit on me.

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justbudfox:
“ a-trad-confused:
“ Meeting of two shoe whores… Thanks for a great few hours of conversation @tjtevlin until next time!
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What I would have given to be at that lunch…
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@justbudfox Tommy and I spoke of having a Tumblr meet up somewhere...

justbudfox:

a-trad-confused:

Meeting of two shoe whores… Thanks for a great few hours of conversation @tjtevlin until next time!

What I would have given to be at that lunch…

@justbudfox Tommy and I spoke of having a Tumblr meet up somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic and doing an open invite for a dinner/social.  In the meantime, you have an open invitation to lunch if you ever find yourself down here.

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Describe yourself in one word.

justbudfox:

purplebullfinch:

perspicacious

Generally, I might have said precocious. But since about mid-November, probably somnolent. Not the best time of the year for it. Though perhaps I am ready to hibernate.

According to a conversation I had with one of my partners last week, a particular client thinks I am “abrasive.” After 17 years doing this, I have definitely reached a point where I no longer suffer fools gladly. If you pay me for my professional advice and pointedly choose to ignore it, don’t expect me to turn cartwheels. How’s that for abrasive? [insert medium serious rude hand gesture here]  

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…