Guest lecturer this afternoon and our seminar has been granted a special discussion with the lecturer beforehand.

We were informed that the dress was formal since there was a reception afterwards. Formal? Really? So I asked about and discovered that they really only meant "grad school formal." You know...please shower, brush your hair, and don't wear jeans or anything crumpled from the hamper.

Ok, I can do that.

Grab a cute jacket and a pair of pants and we're good to go. But the shoes? I so want to wear cute shoes but because I will be trekking from one end of the city to the other not once but twice this afternoon I am going to have to go for practical over cute.

The sacrifices we make for higher education.

Or maybe this just means I need to go shoe shopping?