Ridiculous musings from megan and ben (and occasionally hayley and/or buckley).
May 29 2009
k. so here are some obligatory family shots from my gradjiation and then one from annalise's. someone should harass ben into putting up some of the fantastic new york pictures he took. perhaps start a letter-writing campaign...
me, me parents, that ridiculous hood thing that comes with a Master's
many franks, only one in a silly hat.
he's so proud. mmm... diploma.
ben's mom took this after Annalise graduated, and i think it's pretty rad.
May 19 2009
i graduated! yay! my parents stayed with us for almost a week and i took off work and soulpancaking so as to hang out with them. my dad displayed some astonishing willingness and bravery in the face of those scary new things we always make him do, which deserves (and hopefully shall get) its very own blog post later.
at the moment, i'm sitting on annalise's futon in brooklyn (sigh. brooklyn. i wub you.). she got her bachelor's in the designing of fashions this morning in one fantastic clusterf*#@ of a graduation. annie liebowitz was the guest speaker, so that was something, except that she was almost as bad at speakering as she is good at photographering. it was in radio city music hall, which was neat inside, but we didn't need to sit there for nearly 3 hours to take it all in. however, annalise graduated and will presumably get a diploma in the mail soon, so yay! and we celebrated at this fantastic spanish place in chelsea and have a ton of leftover paella in the fridge. at any rate, yes, blog, i have a master's degree. and yes, blog, that means i will continue to babysit two days a week and soulpancake my lil' heart out for some more days and probably never actually find a job to make this degree qualify as useful. so if you haven't heard already, i am to be addressed henceforth as 'master' because i'm determined to get something out of it. and now, for your viewing pleasure, hayley as master's graduate:
master's in english? she can't even speak english!
graduatin' is tiring.
oh, and also, my first feature piece went up on soulpancake today. yay.
May 07 2009
so yay! i'm done with the literacy class. much yay. in fact, it's so yay, i should really be typing this in all caps, but i won't. YAY. done now. we had our last class tuesday, in which we presented our literacy narrative brilliances and i turned mine in so i could be done with it. unfortunately, about halfway through class, my right eyeball staged the revolt it had been planning for at least a week. it had been extra itchy with the allergy joys, and i'd noticed it was lookin' a little red in parts of it God intended to be white, but i carried on with the contact-wearing. why, you ask, would i do such a ridiculous thing? why would i poke the angry eyeball? two reasons, one being that my glasses are desperately in need of a visit to the fine folks at lenscrafters for adjusting. the other, more important reason is that my sinuses are all stuffed by the allergy gunk, so having the glasses on my face is really uncomfortable. faceaches, headaches and generally grumpiness follow. anyway, tuesday night was it for the eyeball apparently. it commenced to dripping and got much more redderer and puffier that seems safe, completely unfazed by my pitiful attempts to appease it with the contact re-wetting drops. I spent the last 15 or so minutes of class with it in a puddle of drops in the palm of my hand. argh.
yesterday morning it was still huge and red and even had some delightful crusties. i was smart enough to put my glasses on, and it spent the day dripping in waves, fine for a while then the dam would open. today it's basically normal sized and about as red as it was last week, which still looks like i took it partying in vegas. man, my left eye would be pissed if i didn't take it. but i'm still stuck with the glasses, which feel looser than yesterday and are absolutely killing my head, especially the front part of it. i'm at work, so i've had to wear them while the lil' one's awake because i can't really see her too well otherwise. however, during naps (like now) i can take them off and hunch over way too close to my laptop and still see to work on my fiction bit for the children's lit class.it also has the added benefit of back and neck pain as well as more ruining for my eyes. serves them right. they started it. anyway, i sadly have no really gross eyeball photos for you - totally dropped the ball there. but you can look at it today, in it's calmed state. here's a very professional-looking photobooth shot. isn't that exciting?
note the color difference in me eyeballs. also note how giant my nose looks from this particular angle