A Burnt Orange Quest

I was back in my hometown this past week, and I stopped at Presence, one of my favorite stores to hunt down some burnt orange clothing. Shopping there is often hit-or-miss (probably because I'm not nearly as fashion forward as most of their styles), but whenever I like something there, I love it, so I keep going through everything they have in the store..

Unfortunately, this trip was a miss one. The only piece of burnt orange clothing I came away with was a camisole:


It's more orange in reality--the picture makes it look a bit more red. I plan on wearing it with my favorite shirt of all time, also purchased at Presence:


I also took home a dark red camisole and a pink scarf. I've decided I need to expand my scarf collection, and will be on the lookout for more scarves. Having purchased the pink one, my next order of business will be a gray one.

I'm not too happy with how these pictures look. It might be time to actually figure out how to do more on my camera. Currently I'm capable of taking pictures, looking at the pictures I've taken, and turning off the flash. I'm just a regular photography genius.

What on earth is a burnt orange life?

Recently I was chatting with some friends, and one said, "I recently had a conversation about you and burnt orange."
"And what was the conclusion?"
"That you can wear it."
I wear a lot of burnt orange, and I frequently lament the lack of burnt orange clothing out in the world (the above friend says this is because no one else can wear it). So when the time came for me to start a blog, I decided to combine my love of anything French with my love of burnt orange in creating a title.

Since I am English major and a writing tutor, I know that introductions should tell the reader what one is going to discuss. So, reader, here are some things that are going to be in this burnt orange life:

1) A lot of Young Adult Lit discussions (or any literature discussions, really). I love YA Lit. I love giving my opinion about books, especially since I'm no longer taking any literature classes. I love literary criticism. I really really really love writing pieces of literary criticism about YA Lit.
2) My thoughts on the figure skating world. I'm a bit of a figure skating nerd. Just a bit of one.
3) Quotes from those learning how to figure skate. I collect them and will someday publish a book of all the best ones, but for now you can read them without having to purchase the book!
4) Stories that might have anything to do with French or Francophone culture. Said stories will possibly be presented mockingly, but I mock the French only because I love them. Also because they mock me right back.
5) Linguistics ponderings. I go back and forth deciding whether or not I want to get a PhD in Linguistics, but until I decide to go for it, all the topics I would be doing research on will instead be analyzed here.
6) Any successful obtentions* of burnt orange clothing.

So that's the plan. However, as I know from writing several hundred papers over the course of my life, I do not always stick to the plan from the introduction. Anything could happen!

*The word obtention is in the OED (more on the OED later), so as far as I'm concerned, it's a word. I was a bit disappointed, since I thought I'd made the word up, but at least I can cite the OED if someone tries to tell me that it isn't a word.