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By Stephanie Trembath,
Life and Style Editor

fter surviving my first week
living on my own, I was not
fully prepared for what the

weekend had to offer. I intended to
spend Saturday grocery shopping

and cooking meals I could store in

the fridge and easily reheat, and

use Sunday to study for upcoming
midterms. However, in reality, this was
not the case. I did go grocery shopping;
after eating nothing but scrambled
eggs, toast, yogurt with granola, more
scrambled eggs, cheese and crackers,
and a wide assortment of fruits and
veggies, I had no choice but to go
purchase more suitable food items.

I stumbled across a delightful sushi
bar down the street from my place, so
the whole cooking thing never really
happened, but at least I have rice and
noodles in store.

During my walk while grocery
shopping, I was unfortunate enough to
notice the state of my running shoes
which leads me to the next awful event
of my weekend; my shoes. Once-white
Nike’s that have been stapled and
sewn together in places and look like
they’ ve been ravaged by a pack of wild
dogs. Not that they’re ugly, but lately
I’ve been getting shin splints and sore
ankles as a result of the poor support
and haphazard stapling job I have done

Consumerism: 1 — Stephanie: 0

on my shoe laces. I should have bought
new runners at the end of the summer,
but when I went shoe shopping I
bought my delightful black wedge heels
instead.

My decision was extremely silly
as I have worn my cute shoes maybe a
dozen times since they are terrifically
useless when it comes to going
anywhere practical. 1 vowed last week
to never set foot in a mall again, and
the very thought of having to go buy
runners makes me feel anxious as I
know I will not go to just buy runners.
My reasoning: if I take an afternoon
to go runner shopping, I may as well
save time and buy a new sports bra too
because I need a new one. Not as badly
as I need runners, but nevertheless,
I still need one. And if I go buy a
sports bra, well then I might as well
go into lulu lemon, and if I go into
lulu lemon I will have to try on about
a half dozen things. And that’s where
the dilemma begins as I have never left
lulu lemon empty handed, and they
charge a ridiculous $52 for a bloody
shirt and $90 for a sweater because of
the “organic compounds” or bamboo
or whatever they claim the material is
made of.

For this precise reason, I simply
cannot buy new runners so I guess
I will have to give up running and
unfortunately wear my delightful black
wedge heels everywhere.