How I wore it: biker geek

So I think I've mentioned in the past that my style, at its best, tends to be rock & roll nerd sometimes. I really like a sort of hard/edgy aesthetic, but anyone who knows me will attest that - as soon as I open my mouth - all aspirations of edginess just fly out the window: I'm just too proudly geeky with no chance of hiding it.

So yesterday, when I got dressed for an impromptu walk around the nearest lake with my husband (the weather dramatically changed from humid/rainy/balmy to sunny/windy/balmy), I was rather surprised at how I'd styled myself: a (faux) leather jacket! Bad-ass boots! Skinny pants!

Can you see the mudstains that brutalized my boots? Don't worry, they've been cleaned

... Oh, and powder-blue glasses and flower-shaped earrings. And a slobbering enthusiasm for premodern Sanskritic literature and Indo-European grammar. 

Now, this isn't a novel outfit (for me) in the least; it has many of my favorite elements: a tunic, skinny jeans/jeggings, boots, and contrasting hemlines. But I felt good about it for most of the day: it had a streamlined effect that I'd only hoped for and was amply comfortable for stomping around a lake. 

Also, I get really excited whenever I wear my blue glasses... 

In other news, some wonderful stuff has been happening. My advisor wrote back to me and... guys, I'm gonna have a Ph.D. really, really soon. He wants me to visit him in early July. And German dissertations are supposed to be published, so that's gonna happen, too. Anyway, he sent me some corrections and to do some errands, he's mostly happy with my introduction, and life is good. I'm already looking into flights between Athens and Hamburg and lodgings (I really want to stay in the same kick-ass apartment as last year). Yay! Oh, and I also got my schedule for the Wednesday visit at the school and I'm gonna be teaching a grammar lesson (which, if you know me, you'll know that you literally cannot get me more excited than when I'm postulating about Spanish grammar to a group of hapless students) right at the beginning of the day, meaning that I'll be really unstressed for the rest of it. 

Stuff is happening: I just really hope it all continues to happen well! 

Grey jacket: H&M, remixed

Grey tunic: American Apparel, remixed

Jeggings: HUE, by way of Lord and Taylor, remixed

Blue boots: Frye Veronica Slouches, by way of zappos.com, remixed