4.05.2010

MISTY WATER-COLORED MEMORIES!

[Sorry for the delay in today's post. I had extreme technical difficulties. Which makes item #4 in this post that much more infuriating. HA HA, oh...tears. Tears of a clown.]

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I am feeling ultra nostalgic for college this morning, you guys. Ultra nostalgic. I blame this on the following:

1.) John Forsythe aka Blake Carrington from my beloved Dynasty died over the weekend at the age of 92 years young. And it's always in the end that we look back at the beginning...


2.) The other day AU sent free holographic luggage tags in the mail to their alums trying to hit them up for money and the accompanying letter had the ominous reminder: "wherever you go, remember AU is always with you." Kind of like Christ. But holographic!
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3.) I'm working at my college job again. And let me tell you; shifts are far more manageable when you don't show up all hung over and banged out six ways to the weekend. I guess this is growing up...

4.) I've officially given up on the dream of buying myself a new laptop because I desperately need the money I saved to buy sandwiches and pants and pay bills and blah blah responsible blah. I'm so unbelievably depressed about it. I certainly don't miss my old job, but I do miss my computer. I still have Alex's old laptop, yes, but it doesn't have Microsoft Word or any of the design programs I need on it and is just generally one megabyte away from biting the dust. Bless it's heart. Now that getting a new laptop is officially out of the question, I decided to gank the computer I used in college last night from my parent's house and whooo! This bitch be a throwback! I literally haven't turned it on since 2008 and browsing through the files is like stepping into a time machine. (Side note: I can't bring myself to delete a single one of the papers I wrote in college. Christ only knows when I'll ever need a Gender in Society term paper on Herland again, but should the day come, I am more than prepared.)

Looking through my photo library was a total blast from the past. I forgot that I used to be That Girl in college who always had a camera with her and took pictures of everything. Which is weird because I don't think I've taken a picture of anything since 2007. I spent a solid hour last night browsing through the 6000+ pictures and I'd completely forgotten half of this shit. Not that I blocked it out or anything; I just straight up forgot. Here are some of my favorite discoveries:

- Valentine's Day 2003. Ah, memories. My friend from high school, Billy, came to stay for the night and got so drunk that he vomited all over god's green earth. And by god's green earth, I mean Helena's bed, pillow, rug, notebooks and photo albums before promptly passing out on her floor. Talia was also visiting for the night, so we did to Billy what any good friends would do—we shaved his legs, defaced his t-shirt and invited people from other floors to come over and gawk and take pictures:

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The best part is that while shaving his legs, we cleaned out the razor in Helena's Brita filter so when Billy woke up a few hours later and poured himself a drink, he got a nice tall glass of leg hair water. Well, technically this was funny until we informed Billy (mid-gulp) that he was drinking leg hair water and he vomited all over again—except this time on Ashleigh's side of the room. OH BILLY. I miss that kid. He called me Friday night and left a voicemail that I haven't listened to yet. I should do that. I'm writing my inner monologue again, aren't I?

- FORK POPE!
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God I miss the Fork Pope. I created Fork Pope when I was out to dinner with my friends from high school one night and got rull ADD while waiting for the check. I started fiddling with my fork, napkin and ring and suddenly the Fork Pope was born. I should mention this was really, really funny to me and only me. I made him strut regally around the table and bless people. Again, I'm continually shocked that I have any friends.

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- I have an oddly high number of pictures of me flicking off paper assignments:
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- I also have an oddly high number of pictures of when attractive people poked me on Facebook:
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- And I made Alex put Ziplock bags on his feet (or "feet condoms," as I called them) when he did homework on my bed to keep his grubby little feet away from my clean pillows. Again, reason #2352341243 I'm shocked Alex still wants to hang.
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- I HAD CATS!
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I don't want to say I always "forget" about Graydon and Kirikou because that sounds so heartless...yet, I kind of always do. It's a defense mechanism, really. College Roommate Danielle and I got Graydon and Kou when we moved into our apartment Junior year and she got custody of them after graduation. It made sense. She was going back to her animal-friendly parent's house in Texas whereas I was traveling abroad for a while and then moving to New York and Christ knows they were not welcomed at my parent's house in the interim. I'm apt to make it a race issue, but mostly I think it was just because Graydon would have eaten Evie. Let's not lie.

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- Remember when Alex had long, luxurious, shaggy hair?? And remember when I got bored and Coolio-d that long, luxurious, shaggy hair up good? Now I do!

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- There is an honest-to-god photo shoot of myself, taken by myself, from the day I got my Jack Daniel's pajama pants a.k.a. second skin:
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And I'm making it look like I have a boner in one of them:
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...I would like it to be known that I want to be married and buried in those pants. Kthnx.

- Ex-Co-Blogger Eddie and I once created a "Sports Bar & Key West Style Grille" called The American Shocker out of boxes from L.L. Bean.
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...That's never not the funniest sentence I've ever read.

- Helena's Poon Cake!
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Helena despises the word poon and is an all around class act. So, naturally, at the stroke of midnight on her 21st birthday, we made her watch Portuguese porn (a film entitled Butt Fuckin' Bi's) and eat the section of her cake with POON on it. You're welcome Helena. You're welcome.

- THE ONLY SURVIVING PICTURE FROM MATTHEW LILLARD NIGHT!
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Holy crap. This is the one surviving photo from the night we met Matthew Lillard's Doppelganger. Apparently someone shoved multi-colored straws in a colander and set it out on display. This is Danielle being like "WTF is wrong with this night?! What is going on?! Who did this? Who was just as bored as us??" And then five minutes later the cops came.

God
. I am so happy I found this picture. I want it tattooed on my person.


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- This is Alex doing an impression of me. And apparently to do an impression of me, all you need to do is put on a robe or other piece of loungewear, stuff your shirt with a towel (not socks, not a shirt, a towel) to replicate my boobs, grab a t-square and a bottle of tequila, put on jewelry and talk on your cell phone. Hmm.......I shall consider this payback from the Ziplock bags and/or Coolio hair and/or multiple phone pranks and move on.

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- Ok, so one night Senior year Alex came over and we got drunk. This is pretty par for the course, except on this particular night I decided to haze him. Really that just means I stuck obnoxious post-it notes all over him and shouted "DRINK,
FRESHMAN!" at him a few times for good measure. (I don't really know what to tell you about that. Boredom makes you do unique things. Back in the day a hoop and a stick was a party. In '07, posts-it notes and belligerent shouting got the job done.)

I bring this up because I remember making the post-it note that said "Class of 2010" and being like "HA HA, the freshman class is class of 2010! That's insane. We'll all have flying cars by then and robot butlers will do our homework for us!"

...The class of 2010 graduates next month and I turn 25 next week. Man I feel old. Old and nostalgic. Old, nostalgic and pissed off at Ava Cutrone.

43 comments:

Kelly said...

by a show of hands, how many people just facebooked Oskar Litton to see how attractive he was? By another show of hands, how many people are sad that Oskar and facebook no longer tango?

Kerri said...

This post was going great until you had to remind me that I am graduating in a month :(..
But really, loved the trip down memory lane!

Unknown said...

great post!! Funny how the drinking and the Jack Daniels Pants are still going strong

Unknown said...

Is that a photo of the Matthew Lillard Doppelganger, it looks like he could be wearing an oversized V-neck sweater?! I can deram....

Christine said...

NEVER DELETE ANYTHING! I used a research paper I wrote my sophomore year of high school in my last ever college class over the summer. It saved me an insane amount of time and BS.

25 is my mental breakdown/freakout age. I'm 23 now, and I'd like to stay that way, thanks.

Courtney said...

I agree, do not delete anything from college. Especially the pictures. They are a much worthy leverage tool when you want your friends new boyfriend to help you move. Let me tell you how fast she'll talk him into it!

Anonymous said...

this post was definitely worth the wait and I would have totally laughed if you made a fork pope at my table because i just laughed for the last ten minutes after seeing those pictures

Suzanne said...

Ummmmmm you should totally set up a pay pal account for a lap top fund! Your blog is too good to not have a good laptop! I will donate!!!!

April said...

As a member of the class of 2010 thank you for making me even more depressed about impending adulthood... thank God alcohol apparently graduates with us

Anonymous said...

I went abroad with Oskar...even in Egypt, he was well known to be a hottie.

EasyWayIn said...

In college my friends thought I was a freak because I wouldn't let people put their feet anywhere NEAR my pillows. The few times that people sat on my pillow, or hugged it close while talking to me, I had to appear collected while suffering a panic attack. Seriously I'll practically lick subway poles or eat garbage but I'm an inexplicable pillow germaphobe and it's nice to know I have company!. Feet condoms=genius.

kateebee said...

new blog feature... meg posts a ridiculous picture (say of a fork Pope or feet condoms) and we have to guess the context.

Abbey said...

I agree. Set up a paypal for your laptop! I'm sure a few donations will go a long way! Unless you spend it all on booze. But that would result in more crazy adventures. Win win me thinks!

Think about it!

Unknown said...

Maybe I'm punchy from the day, but man, I the fork pope KILLED me. Seriously.

Abbey said...

Oh, and Kelly. Your Facebook stalking skills need honed. I found Oskar. ;)

Grant said...

I still have all my files from high school. I have high school papers on my computer. This terrifies me. I am 23 years old. I am going to get a PhD. And I have not deleted my high school papers. I have faithfully migrated them from computer to computer (at least four), through countless hard drive failures, reformats and God knows what else. I should learn to let go.

2b1b: The sardonic voice of 20-somethings everywhere, Monday through Friday. said...

new blog feature... meg posts a ridiculous picture (say of a fork Pope or feet condoms) and we have to guess the context.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Brilliant!

Dan C. said...

Not going to lie, Fork pope looks suspiciously like a KKK member. I bet at night he gets together with other ForKKKs and they burn crosses in front of other drawers in the kitchen.

Elisa said...

Innappropriately decorated cakes are seriously the funniest thing ever. Something about the innocence of delicious white froster all tainted (tee hee) with naughty words... cracks me up every single time.

I have issues.

Steve Kline said...

Add a PayPal widget and watch the money start flying in. I will step up to the plate and pledge $100 towards the laptop fund. I am always happy to donate to a good cause.

britty said...

Oskar? http://www.beautifulpeople.com/Site/#/oskar.litton

I enjoy that I found this guy on "beautifulpeople.com.

Anonymous said...

fork pop looks like a KKK member .. coincidence? i think not.

Unknown said...

Thoughts:
1. How tragically 90s is that Sarah McLachlan video?! the combat boots?! the leather jacket with men's glasses and a baseball cap?! the heavy gage sweaters?? OY!

2. I am SO right there with you on the having-to-use-your-hard-earned laptop (*coughcoughMexicovacation*)-savings-to "live"...or some bullshit like that. Except I have a job, so mine aren't for living expenses, merely for paying the government the alleged $2800 in taxes I apparently owe them. FML. (But seriously- I was SO going to use the other half of my savings for that damn Macbook Pro- FOILED AGAIN!)

3. I have (luckily...?) had the SAME desktop PC since the summer before I went off to college (2002- put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!) and I TOO have a COMPLETELY irrational fear of getting rid of my high school/college assignments. Why in God's name I would ever need to call up my business profile analysis paper on Disneyland is a thought I don't even WANT to think of- but nevertheless, the fear is real. That's pretty funny though that I'm not the only one....just more sad that I'm older than you and A.) still have a flipping DESKTOP for Christ's sakes and B.)amd 26 with no career direction.

Sorry I apparently used your comments section for my inner monologue. WIN.

Becky Mochaface said...

Holy boobs woman!

ashleigh said...

wow! I vividly remember returning from a romantic (ugh) Valentine's day to stripped bed and some flowers from billy, but I do not believe I ever saw the photographic evidence

<3

Anonymous said...

holy BALLSTEIN, i know oskar litton - we worked together briefly. AND, he friended me on facebook, but hasn't resorted to the poke yet. sigh, you're just cooler than me.

Alanda said...

Please forgive me for nitpicking, but you make the same grammatical error in almost every post, it drives me crazy, and it's one spell check won't catch. "It's" means "it is." "Its" is the possesive of it. As in, "bless its heart," NOT "bless it's heart."

Just a little constructive criticism from a diehard fan...

Alanda said...

haha and i DO realize that my post has a run-on sentence in it...embarassing...

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