I just got the September issue of Vogue late since my subscription ran out and it’s already September 5th! I exclaim not because I am reading my magazine later than usual, this I’m okay with, it’s the uncharacteristic, surreal speed of time passing which has left me confused and unsettled.

How fleeting time is, how fleeting summer is. Even the morning goes in the blink of an eye. I’ve been making an effort to wake up earlier to maximize on time. Most days I’m up at 7:30 or 8 and before I know it, it’s noon. When I was younger, the summer seemed to last forever. Forever. Six hours felt like an eternity. My vagabond friends and I would go on day long expeditions and we would literally spend our time just walking around the streets, amusing ourselves with anything remotely interesting and free. We had no money and a billion hours to spend.

Summer felt like an entire year.

Being older, having money and having a car has actually just made it easier to do more stuff. More stuff I don’t actually want to do but have to. Or have been asked to do. It makes it easier to have more possibilities with which to exhaust the day. Usually I overbook and render myself late. For everything. And this only means I have come to the mercy of time.

The time gods are laughing at me.
Kali, the mean Hindi goddess, I mean the meanest one, is the goddess of time. As it turns out. I only know this because I just googled “God of Time” and the following picture came up.

She’s terrifying.

That was essentially a tangent, what I did want to show you was the delightful Paillette dresses in Prada’s Fall 2011 Ready-to-wear. They’re beautiful. Paillettes are huge sequins that look remarkably like fish scales. The first is my favorite. I don’t like the boots. Actually I hate all the footwear in this collection. But that’s a preferential thing, I just don’t ever see why anyone needs to wear colored knee high boots. I kind of like the ones with the anklet, but, you know, they’re still colored…