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.
Tags: graduations everywhere!, hayley in a silly hat!, i is a master!, i should perhaps drink less whilst blogging!, no i shouldn't cuz i graduated and am in new york!, there are a lot of exclamation points in these tags!, yay i'm in new york!
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
Tags: allergies, i wanna shoot my eye out, if close-ups of eyeballs gross you out this post is not for you, itchy eyes!
i knew i'd be bad at this blogging thing. i'm neglectful, busy doing other things and stressing a little and wondering how in the world this head that all hats deem to be small or smaller can possibly hold so much mucus and feel so much bigger than ben's. for real. that big. and blog, you're a little needy. it's not your fault, i know, it's just the way you are. you depend on me for pretty much everything. it's like you can't just exist without me or something. sheesh. so i'm checking in, because i haven't left you and really there are things i've been meaning to tell you, i just haven't had the chance. but i have two more weeks of school, then perhaps there will be more time for you. i'm hoping for many blogs about how awesome sleep is.
we had a lot of fun all weekend with alan and jj staying here for jared and carey's wedding. the wedding and the weather were lovely. ben took tons of pictures and i somehow became the videographer. no doubt that video is gonna look like somebody's drunken, palsied old relative shot it. sorry guys. i'm pretty sure both carey and jared were in the video though, so that has to count for something, right?
cnn is right now telling me there's a 'superhero' in chicago now who calls himself shadowhare. yep. he doesn't look like an idiot at all. wearin a cape like he's never seen a superhero movie or read a comic book. more power to you, shadowhare. i will not mock your name or the fact that you in no way resembled a hare in your silly lil' costume there, because it's a lovely morning and i shall attempt some modicum of positivity.
bleh. i even made myself a lil' sick there. i think that's my cue to go do something productive.
Tags: busybusybusy, carey & jared got hitched yay!, i'm a bad blogger, superhero? or jackass?
my head has been developing and mulling and obsessing over a dueling list as of late. not exactly a pro/con list, more like a want/should or heart/logic list. it's the list of things i want to do, would love to do and perhaps even maybe need to try to do for that whole spiritual-creative-happiness equilibrium thing, but then there's the other list. the list that, well, quite honestly is made of things unappealing, or at least not exciting. but some are sort of unknown, so who knows. but that list is the "should" list: things i know i "should" do once this whole school thing finally leaves me the crap alone (and some before that even). high on it is "just grow up and get a full-time job already, soul-killing or not, you should really make some *%*&$# money already!" i don't wanna work in an office and wear sensible heels, mom! <-- see, whiny. immature. and maybe not so problematic if i were single and not mooching, but i am. so really, there's no other option, regardless of what captain supportive husband says. but sometimes, it just plain sucks. it's frustrating how the want/need/should or whatever lists are so at odds sometimes. but, i suppose that's life and i suppose it makes us work a little harder to figure out how to eventually get them in line. it would just be nice if "eventually" didn't seem so far away. harrumph.i should really add a "whiny" category over there. sheesh.
to come soon, the happy and grateful and yay blog about my birthday weekend and the lovely relaxing Easter ben and i got to have. will have to track down a photo of those ribs...
Tags: heart vs. logic, life in the grown-up lane, want vs. should, whiny whine whine
dear blog,
i am tired and should apparently be brushing up on my shakespearean sonnets for my graduate exam tomorrow, but i am SO FREAKING EXCITED about a new, um, internship? awesome job with no pay? anyway, i'm gonna start helping out with soulpancake. i'm kind of in love with the concept and reallyreallyreally excited to start hanging out in the creative lair and thinking and bouncing around on balance-ball chairs and playing with sharpies of various colors. so. i thought i would tell you of the one bright spot in an otherwise (sometimes spectacularly) crappy week, and to tell you to go play on the site as well. and maybe, just maybe one day they'll have money to give me.
love,
meg
Tags: exciting new endeavor!, soulpancake, why do i keep finding cool things to do for no money?, yay!
