When I matriculated in Boston, I owned a pair of trousers with little lobsters embroidered all over them. Years before 'preppie' became a nationwide fashion style.
When I returned to Texas from Boston I found that my lobster trou (and my strawberry trou) weren't . . . received as well by friends as my Lee jeans and boots.
Don't abandon your roots.
I think we may have lingered here too long. Isabeau found us. Have we begun a serious search for another UT candidate (he asked himself)?
I detect a massive understatement there.