The Daily Post had a great prompt for today:
Describe a typical day in your life — but do it in a form or in a medium you’ve rarely — if ever – used before. If you’re a photoblogger, write a poem. If you’re a poet, write an open letter. If you’re a travel blogger, write a rant. (These are all examples — choose whatever form you feel like trying out!)
After some pondering, I decided to describe my morning routine of getting dressed for work via news story style. Behold!
Local Woman Spends Inordinate Amount of Time Choosing Work Outfits in the Morning
Efficiency experts are baffled by what they say is one of the worst cases of dressing disorder they've seen. They were recently on-site to observe a local Saskatoon woman go through her morning ritual. One expert said it could only be described as "truly horrifying" while another said it was "mind boggling that a person could do this almost every day, actually".
Using spaghetti diagrams, the experts noted no less than 12 outfit changes within a 30 minute time frame. Convinced that this had to be a special circumstance, they returned the next day to observe again. After nearly 3 weeks of study, they found the average number of outfit changes was 9, ranging from as low as 6 to as high as 17.
Even more puzzling was the fact that often there were only 4 outfits being tried on, meaning that the subject went back and forth with the same choices multiple times before finally landing on one. Despite numerous reviews of the data, as one researcher put it, "We honestly couldn't see what the f&*# was different from one outfit to another. It was like some kind of sick cat-and-mouse game with her closet."
The experts say that having an extensive wardrobe was likely a contributing factor. At the very least it, "...gave her the opportunity to allow her extreme dysfunction to flourish."
Describe a typical day in your life — but do it in a form or in a medium you’ve rarely — if ever – used before. If you’re a photoblogger, write a poem. If you’re a poet, write an open letter. If you’re a travel blogger, write a rant. (These are all examples — choose whatever form you feel like trying out!)
After some pondering, I decided to describe my morning routine of getting dressed for work via news story style. Behold!
Local Woman Spends Inordinate Amount of Time Choosing Work Outfits in the Morning
Efficiency experts are baffled by what they say is one of the worst cases of dressing disorder they've seen. They were recently on-site to observe a local Saskatoon woman go through her morning ritual. One expert said it could only be described as "truly horrifying" while another said it was "mind boggling that a person could do this almost every day, actually".
Using spaghetti diagrams, the experts noted no less than 12 outfit changes within a 30 minute time frame. Convinced that this had to be a special circumstance, they returned the next day to observe again. After nearly 3 weeks of study, they found the average number of outfit changes was 9, ranging from as low as 6 to as high as 17.
Even more puzzling was the fact that often there were only 4 outfits being tried on, meaning that the subject went back and forth with the same choices multiple times before finally landing on one. Despite numerous reviews of the data, as one researcher put it, "We honestly couldn't see what the f&*# was different from one outfit to another. It was like some kind of sick cat-and-mouse game with her closet."
The experts say that having an extensive wardrobe was likely a contributing factor. At the very least it, "...gave her the opportunity to allow her extreme dysfunction to flourish."