The Ups and Downs of Glamour in a Small Town

Up 1. There aren't many classy girls here - so moi looks fab even when she doesn't.

Down 1. Having so much blah around is incentive to drop standards.


Up 2. I could make my millions as a stylist here.

Down 2. I don't think anyone really wants to improve, or even sees a problem in living in fugly, grey stretch pants.


Up 3. People stare like you're something because even at your most casual, you tend to look really dressed up.

Down 3. They also seem to think moi is a tart just for wearing high heels with a skirt. Can you imagine what some of my more eccentric outfits might do to them?

If Only...

Life really was a bit more like Sex and the City. I suppose that it must be for some people, otherwise we probably wouldn't be as obsessed. Great jobs with really great pay, apartments in Manhattan (try Brooklyn for Miranda) and Glamour. With that capital G. And somehow, everything always turns out alright. It's comforting that while NY has a shortage of eligable men, there are some in every episode and that while some outfits are please-don't-put-that-on-my-dead-body, they are all SATCfabulous (officially now a word).

But the rest of us can only try to achieve that level of glamour, fufillment and style. Fun, but hard at the best of times, try moving from a big city that everybody's heard of to a town that people living 100 miles away don't even know about. More about that later.