I admit it's a little trippy, buy hey – you didn't think I was going to do this whole experiment sober did you? Anyway, this quick tour of my subconscious is my way of telling you that I had a little sticker shock after fashion month. I think it was when I laid out all the clothes I'd bought to photograph them and I realized that was a lot of stuff. Furthermore, a good portion of that lot of stuff is stuff I'll never wear again. So it's basically a lot of crap. So I just spent a huge chunk of change on a heap of crap. And now, even as I type this, the accountant is bursting Alien-style out of the girlie girl's chest.

I thought about getting a random manicure, maybe having the old face sandblasted or something. Every time I did my internal bean counter would issue a memo entitled “14 better ways to spend your money” (number one always being, “bury it!”). Not to mention that I was exhausted from the effort of choosing a different combination of jewelry everyday. It's like trying to crack the Enigma code with only half an Alan Turing.

So, yes, I plateaued a bit in third quarter, idling at around a 5 on the girlie scale. However, I'm fully rested now and planning a big push for the rest of the year. I go into the home stretch determined to crack a 7.