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[msmcknittington]

aesiron complained that I hadn't posted a picture for 365 in a while, to which I say ha! I am gross, guys. I've got pimples from spending so much time sleeping and a chapped nose from blowing it so much and big dark circles under my eyes from sleeping in half-hour cycles. Also, I haven't waxed my upper lip in like three weeks, so I have a moustache. I can't let the world see me like this.

Yes, I realize I am a big vain thing. Carly Simon? Wrote a song about me before I was even born. What I am about to post will not remove this impression.

Instead of giving you a picture of my bloodshot eye, as I told aesiron I was going to do, or the pile of Kleenexes and utter destruction of my room, I offer up a picture of me knitting in San Francisco when I was there for the undergrad research conference last spring. While it snowed over a foot in Wisconsin (in April!), I was enjoying temperatures in the 60s and 70s, while locals told us all that it was unseasonably cold. Whatever, crazy San Franciscans. I wasn't wearing long underwear, and that was wonderful.



Approximately 15 minutes before this was taken, I was stretching out my legs because, damn, walking in business casual hurts. A college-aged guy walked by, staring at me, and narrowly avoided walking into a garbage can. (Or was it a picnic table?) Nothing like that has happened before, and I doubt it will happen again. It was bizarre.

Also, my five year high school reunion is this summer. WHAT?

I have already resolved to wear a cocktail dress, regardless of where it's held. Bowling alley? Cocktail dress! Restaurant? Cocktail dress and cocktail ring! VFW? Cocktail dress, cocktail ring, and cocktail hat! The high school gym? Cocktail dress, cocktail ring, cocktail hat, and MANY cocktails!

Oh my god, so many cocktails.

Comments

[beraht.livejournal.com]

They have five year reunions? My ten year is in two, which was I surprised to just realize. Oof.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

My class generally liked each other, and some of the classes before us had five-year reunions. Some started at ten.

Ha. Join me in feeling old! Some of the people with kids in my class are starting them in kindergarten soon. Oof.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Y'all shut the heck up and get off my lawn. My husband's 30 year will be this year, and I've been out of school 24.

[gardentraveler.livejournal.com]

Some of my friends have kids out of grad school already. And are grandparents of those kindergarteners. How's that for old?

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

You and troubleagain are awesome. I don't associate you with mysterious body aches and my grandma asking me about "young men."

[gardentraveler.livejournal.com]

The older I get (I'm 50, which sounds surreal to me), the more I've come to realize that it's actually true that your age is all in your head. Well, mostly anyway.