A bit rushed in the mornings?

[littlemissattitude]

Honestly, I don't understand what the big deal is.

When I was at university (a small private school where about half the students lived on-campus in the dorms), it was not at all unusual to see students coming to 8 a.m. classes in pajamas and fuzzy slippers, carrying their bowl of breakfast cereal and cup of coffee or glass of juice along with their books.

In fact, some of the professors who taught early classes arranged to have a pot of coffee and a plate of pastries avaliable for the students during class.

I thought it was all quite comfy and civilized.

[Grimward]

My small private school with half the students living on campus unfortunately didn't subscribe to the same program, LMA. Then again, those stupid enough to wander outside in pjs and fuzzy slippers during the first week of "Spring" semester at my alma mater deserved to freeze!

I don't really have a problem with it, either way, but you'll never catch me going to the store in pajamas...I also don't own any!

[Wiglaf]

PJs in stores is a suburban thing; I prefer beach communities with the swimsuits myself. Would you believe that some people go to the PB Vons merely to check out (and perhaps obtain the phone numbers of) swimsuit-clad female shoppers?
(By the way, a sarong is typically worn over the bottom half. In other words, "Sarong your thong")

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Grimward

My small private school with half the students living on campus unfortunately didn't subscribe to the same program, LMA. Then again, those stupid enough to wander outside in pjs and fuzzy slippers during the first week of "Spring" semester at my alma mater deserved to freeze!

I don't really have a problem with it, either way, but you'll never catch me going to the store in pajamas...I also don't own any!

Well, it was California. Not that many really freezing mornings. And we do have a slightly more relaxed culture here. But, I have to admit that it was the only school I ever attended that allowed, and actually encouraged, eating and drinking in class.

I don't think I've ever gone to the store in my pjs, but I have been known to take my laundry out to the apartment's laundry room in them. And I did run around a con in my pjs one night, but I wasn't the only one.

[Wiglaf]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

Well, it was California. Not that many really freezing mornings. And we do have a slightly more relaxed culture here. But, I have to admit that it was the only school I ever attended that allowed, and actually encouraged, eating and drinking in class.

I don't think I've ever gone to the store in my pjs, but I have been known to take my laundry out to the apartment's laundry room in them. And I did run around a con in my pjs one night, but I wasn't the only one.

At UC Santa Cruz they have a nekkid run during the first rain of the school year. Your university was probably just happy you all wore something.

[Werewoman]

In the island communities of Florida, at least Anna Maria island near where I used to live, people wear their swimsuits in restaurants near the beaches. I did it a lot, though it probably traumatized the other diners. Actually, I wore either a sarong or my tank top style cover up, though no thongs for me...too old. I leave those to the tight-bunned beauties but there was a time...there was a time....I was one of those tight-bunned beauties.

Never wore PJ's to the store, though. My generation just doesn't do that sort of thing, to the relief of the younger generation I should think.

[Peter Graham]

On the other hand, it would be a helpful reminder that you** needed that couple of pound of Porkinson's finest Cumberlands...

Or the last chicken in the butcher's shop window.....

[Clansman]

How about a Tesco ban on thongs?

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Wiglaf

At UC Santa Cruz they have a nekkid run during the first rain of the school year. Your university was probably just happy you all wore something.

Yeah, well, it is a Christian university, so I'm sure they're very glad that the students mostly remain clothed. Although they were really very liberal about that kind of thing when I was there, considering the short-shorts some of the female students habitually wore to College Hour, which was the sort of chapel service that was required once a week and held in a church just off-campus.

Then again, it was, and probably continues to be, a pretty liberal place for a Christian school. I was on campus today, actually, to renew my community borrower card at the library, and one of the books I checked out is something called Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, which explores the evolutionary origins of belief and is by a scholar who describes himself as a "reductionist materialist atheist". And, one of the periodicals the library subscribes to is "The Skeptical Inquirer", so I don't think anyone could accuse them of being rigidly dogmatic or ideological. EDITED TO ADD: And when I was doing my upper division undergrad work and proposed to to a field study on Wiccans for a cultural anthropology course, my professor (who was also my mentor) thought that was entirely wonderful and did not try to steer me toward a more congenial (read: Christian) denomination to study (the assignment was to do a field study on a denomination or religion that the student knew little about).

I'm currently looking at going back to school there to do an individualized masters in belief systems and how they affect relations between those who hold different beliefs. A little anthropology (which is what my BA is in), a little history, a little sociology and psychology, a little political science, a little history, a little religious studies, probably even a little philosophy. Yeah, it'll be a mulitdisciplinary program, but that's the fun of it: if I do this, I'll get to write my own program, along with an advisor.

I've got quite good enough grades to be admitted; now I just have to figure out how to pay for it...because it's a private school, it's expensive.