Party Outfit, Shoes #3, and Politics

 Since this is Reading Week for us Canadian post-secondary students, I've been relaxing quite a lot.  We're supposed to use the week off to actually read - obviously, no one really thought that through!  University-age kids...a week off...I have definitely not been reading and neither has anyone I know!  But actually, someone who has not been relaxing is my friend Jeff, who's in town from London, Ontario. Last night he kindly took me out for a lovely dinner and then we hit the Drake Hotel, a nightclub here.  I love nightclubs because you can act as crazy, as silly, as carefree as you like and not be strange, so I danced the night away!  I was not dressed in a typical club fashion, because I had thought we would only have dinner and casual drinks in the bar.  So this is an outfit my mother would have probably approved of!

I feel like if you're going out dancing, a swingy skirt is a must: it just makes dancing that much more fun!  The shoes here are my beloved Mary Janes.  The whole outfit is super cheap - the black top is actually a dress that I picked up for $3 at Orfus Road, an outlet strip mall kinda thing in Toronto.  You can't try things on there so I didn't realize it's obscenely short.  This is the first time I had the idea to wear it as a top.  The blue skirt is from Forever 21 for $16, the Mary Janes I got in perfect condition in a thrift store, ($5 maybe?) and the belt came with a skirt for $10.  The skirt is now gone, but I wear this belt all the time.  Funny how things work out sometimes.  So if I don't count the belt, this outfit is $24, and all of these items are easy to wear.  Wardrobe success!

Here's my "super-studious-student" outfit for today, which I am planning to spend catching up on schoolwork.

 So far I have yet to do any schoolwork, and it's almost 4pm.  Late night tonight I think!  But I have a good reason for procrastinating.  I didn't mention before, but I was born in Libya.  My parents lived there for the entire 1980s, teaching in a school run by an oil company for the children of its employees.  That's how they met, and they still have friends there.  So our family is I guess emotionally more affected by the Libya crisis at the moment.  Today we attended a solidarity rally in Toronto.  I was of course dressed inappropriately for the weather!  My legs were numb in the lace tights.  Fortunately the boots proved very comfortable for marching.  Here I am with my twin sister in Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.

And while walking around the city I spied this Irish pub.

Pogue Mahone, aka "Kiss my @$$" in Irish Gaelic.  Love it!