dude...where's my pants?

So picture this-You're stressed, rushing to the library to finish (okay basically put together at the last minute) your very last presentation in graduate school ever with your group and you're running late, as usual. You're trying to grab your breakfast, lunch, school bag, practicum bag, what you need for supervision, your water bottle, a change of clothes for the gym later, your keys, and purse. Everything is in a different part of the house and you've had to run up and down the stairs a few times because you keep forgetting things. Oh yeah, don't forget your cell phone which you think is still on the bathroom counter.

You throw everything into the backseat of the car and bust out of the garage as fast as you can and then you are finally able to relax for a little while and eat your chobani while driving. But wait...just as you enter the on ramp for the freeway you notice something. Well damn you forgot to put on pants. And then you slap your forehead and call yourself an idiot. And the day just goes downhill from there. 

That actually happened to me. This was back in April, but as I said last post I forgot my password for a while. I actually texted Patti, who was waiting for me in the library, "my god I forgot my pants at home...yeah that just happened." I don't think she believed me right away. Of course, she was picturing me walking out into broad daylight without pants on which obviously would be ridiculous. I walked into my closed garage and got into my car before leaving the house and  I was wearing boy shorts so I felt pretty much covered. And I was stressed. So yeah.

Most people are like "huh...are you serious?" when they hear that story but I think they really underestimate how unnatural it is for me to wear pants period. When I was looking up that text I did a search on my phone for 'pants' and about a bajillion messages came up, 99% from me involving the words 'pants' or 'pantsless'. FYI if I'm at home and I don't have company you better believe I am pantsless and I like to talk about it too.

Oh yeah, did I mention this was also the day everyone else found out if they pass/failed/got rewrites on written quals EXCEPT me and 3 other students. Talk about a truly craptastic day. I may or may not have pushed some books off a table in frustration.