Are we there yet?

I think I need to keep chanting, "it's almost spring break, it's almost spring break." That might be the only thing that gets me through the next six days of school. The kids are acting a bit like animals, I can't avoid teaching American poetry such as Robert Frost (which I hate, strike me down, I said it), the papers are piling up and I'm getting antsy and angsty. My current annoyance? The inability to find pants that actually aren't six inches too long for me. Here's my story.

I am 5'4". I think that is rather average and I am neither the shortest nor the tallest of the women I know. I have gotten completely sick of my clothes which is due in part to having been wearing the same winter clothes since October and having lost weight, so all those said clothes are on the unflatteringly baggy side. Yesterday I decided that it was time to invest in some new pants, but there's a catch. I absolutely HAVE to find pants that are considered "short" inseam and there are very few stores that actually sell such things. I used to get all my work pants from Express because they carry the fabled "short" pants. However, with their prices going up and up, I have a lot of trouble justifying spending $70 on one pair of pants. So, I started looking other places for cheaper, short pants. Well, it was the most unsuccessful trip to the mall ever. I found short pants, but anything less than $70 was truly hideous. It's like the companies think that either short people don't deserve flattering and fashionable pants or they think that us short people are so few and far between that making anything in a short length isn't necessary. Seriously, all I found were awful fabrics, nothing outside of black or an ugly shade of khaki, and unflattering cuts (hello, I am NOT going to wear pleated pants. No way).

So aggrivating. I think I might be forced to either buy the $70 pants (ugh) or get other pants and get them shortened which could put them in the range of $70 anyways. Aargh.

Someone should really start making fashionable pants for those of us under 5'8". Seriously.