My time-travel destination

Say you woke up tomorrow morning and there was a DeLorean in your driveway. Where would you go?

For me, it's England, for a 10-year span from 1526 to 1536. You guessed it, I'm still obsessed with the Tudor dynasty.

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It's gotten a little bit out of hand. I re-read The Other Boleyn Girl last semester, then watched the movie for the first time. This semester I'm taking Professor Retha Warnicke's class on the Stuart Monarchy—the family who ruled England after the Tudors—and next semester I'm taking her class on the Tudors (jammed schedules call for a non-chronological sequence of history classes). And lately I've spent way too much spare time glued to streamed episodes of The Tudors.

Sure, it would be awful to go back in time that far and for that long. We're talking leeches and bloodletting instead of ibuprofen, giant fireplaces and tiny windows instead of central heat and air, and lice, rats and B.O. like you wouldn't believe.

But to see that whole sequence of events in person would be absolutely incredible.

Especially if the DeLorean brought me safely back to 2014 afterward.

I wear socks with slippers

Lately I've discovered a new obsession. Feet, meet slipper socks.

They look goofy by themselves, I know. But with shoes they don't show at all.

Well OK, they show a little bit.

You can wear flats without them, of course. And up until a few weeks ago, I did. For flats with smooth vinyl insoles, I still do. But for shoes with cloth or real leather foot beds, it's socks all the way. My reasoning is as follows:

I once had a pair of TOMS shoes that I loved. They were red, lightweight, insanely comfortable and went with everything. I wore them constantly.

But TOMS have a short shelf life if you wear them as much as I wore them. If the canvas doesn't wear out on the back of the heel, the leather foot bed will crack and feel nasty (mine did both).

You see, feet sweat in enclosed spaces. They just do. And sweaty feet make leather insoles damp. Damp leather shrinks when it dries. And shrunken leather cracks, pulls away from seams and makes sharp broken edges against the bottom of your foot.

Until your foot sweats again, and the broken, torn leather becomes a soggy, rolled-up mess.

It's just not fun. But nifty footie socks are. And they prevent all that from happening.

I got these at Payless in black and red, but I've also seen them at Target and in nude tones.

So what do you think? Does wearing socks with flats weird you out, or does it make perfect sense? Would you ever try it, or have you already? I want to hear your thoughts, so let me know in the comments below.