Sweaters?
So I got up last Saturday around eight in the morning and started to get ready to work. After my morning coffee and numerous yawns I made my way over from Erickson where I live to Lorentszen where I work here at admissions.
For those of you that know the layout of Concordia, you would also know that the smartest way to get from Erickson to Lorentszen is through the skyway over 8th Street. Well when I got into the skyway I was taken aback, it looked like a scene right out of a movie. You know the one where someone wakes up, looks out the window and the sun is shining, creatures are frolicking and there isn’t a cloud in the sky, that movie.
Well as I saw all the sunshine and blue skies my expectations for the day rose, I felt like it was going to be a great day! As I kept walking in the skyway I glanced down at the street below at the clock thermometer outside of Moorhead state bank (the signs that sometimes say inspirational messages, or “we cut our interest rates” and then flash to the time).
Well that sign took the liberty of informing me that instead of the utopia I thought was outside of the skyway there was actually blistering cold. -13 degrees to be exact. NEGATIVE thirteen degrees. NEGATIVE THIRTEEN!
It was a little disheartening to say the least. I’ve noticed that Concordia has been a little bit colder than good ol’ Mount Rose, a few degrees on average. While that doesn’t make the biggest difference in the world it did warrant me an excuse to sucker my parents into buying me a few new sweaters for the cold winters here at Concordia, and they have ended up being my favorite thing to wear.
One piece of sweater advice I have for people who are sweater novices (and if you don’t think anyone could be a beginner at wearing a sweater I would beg to differ, because before this year I owned very few) is that if you buy your sweater from old navy check for tags. I found this out the hard way.
Old Navy Sweaters not only have the tag that squirts ink on the shirt if its stolen but also a second sown into the side that is “deactivated” when you buy the sweater. Well if you don’t notice that tag is there and fail to cut it off you end up beeping every time you walk into a store. In all reality beeping when you walk into a store isn’t horrible because the cashier knows you’re not stealing anything when you beep on the way out.
Well that’s nice if the cashier is there when you go to leave, but last week at Walgreens I must have walked in right before the shift change, so when I walked out the new cashier (a high school girl who seemed to really care about merchandise getting stolen from her part-time employer) chased me out the door and wanted me to empty my pockets.
Well after initially laughing at her thinking she was joking I realized that she wasn’t and explained how I had beeped on the way in. While I obviously hadn’t stolen anything she still went on to lecture me on how if I beep I should stay and explain why to the cashier.
But anyway, the main point of all this nonsense is Moorhead is cold, and if your heading up here next year be prepared! P.S. I didn’t have any great pictures of myself in sweaters, and all the ones I did have were blurry, or I was looking away from the camera or something. So I searched for pictures and this one made me laugh the most. so here it is.