February 2011
January 2011
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Can you feel it?
Today, I wrote the most satisfying email of my life. It read, and I quote:
Hi [recruiter], Sorry for not replying earlier. I’m no longer pursuing a career in advertising, but thanks for your interest. Cheers, Megan
So it’s official. I’d told myself when I took my job this past summer that it would be my last in advertising, and that I’d be looking for a new job - a new career - in...
Have the best day ever
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fact of life: all girl conversations inevitably...
Tall Megan: i've always thought of you as the Carrie. I think i'm kind of the Charlotte now...without all the money.
Me: Really? I feel like I'm a mix of Charlotte and Miranda - hopeless romantic/bitter cynic.
TM: nope. always Carrie (you are a little Miranda too though)
Me: i think that's like, the biggest compliment you can give a girl. "You're a Carrie." They should make greeting cards that say that. "I've always thought you were a Carrie"
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A cab just hailed me
The driver wanted to know what kind of boots I was wearing.
They’re Sorel, in case you were wondering too.
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Up Next...
Behind the scenes so far this year, some exciting stuff that may qualify 2011 as the Year of Megan: Part II. First up, Style Girlfriend is going rogue. After an amazing year partnered with Jon from Evolution of Style, we agreed that Style Girlfriend is now all grown up and ready to leave the nest. But SG’s not off to college for some ABC Family tv-movie that I’m sure would be both...
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WatchThat’s priddy kewl!
With my cold, I realized I sound like a dead ringer for Vanessa Bayer’s Miley Cyrus. Y’all.
Guess what I'm wearing right now?
If you guessed “pants,” you’re correct!
I went out to get more soup, and I put pants on for the first time since…I wanna say Friday? Yes, Friday when I went to the doctor and found out every orifice on my face was infected. Think I might leave ‘em on awhile, feeling pretty fancy.
Getting back to feeling like myself - myself without two pairs of sweatpants, five...
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update on how i'm livin'
slept for thirteen hours
woke up, wrote an email, felt exhausted
took a short nap
On the upside, it doesn’t hurt to swallow anymore, and my nose has decided to cooperate in ejecting - instead of housing - my body’s weight in boogers. Sorry, that’s just the meds talking. I’ll be back to regular, booger-less programming tomorrow. I hope.
In response to my rockin' Friday night photo
Steve: You bought off-brand cold medicine?? No wonder you're sick! Get the real stuff!
Me: why is off-brand cold medicine bad? isn't it the same ingredients as the "real" stuff?
Steve: That's like when we used to get Hyrdox cookies in Hebrew school (the Kosher version of Oreos), and the teachers used to say, "But they're the same thing as Oreos!" No they're not, Mrs. Basyuk. No they're not.
Me: I don't think that's the same thing at all.
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Aaron Sorkin Announces New TV Show for HBO Set... →
The first good reason to miss cable that I’ve had in quite some time
boggle-:
thesounknown:popculturebrain:
Turns out Aaron Sorkin is making a return to TV with yet another drama set behind-the-scenes of a television program. This time it’s cable news. In an interview with BBC News he shares…
“I love television, and I’m going to be doing another television series as well, this time...
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Stuff I Wrote: I'm 27 and I love my training bra →
A call to arms for all the flat-chested girls out there, over at The Hairpin
If you’d prefer not to ever think of me in my underwear, of course, feel free to pass on clicking through. And let’s never speak of it again.
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Me: i just cut myself really badly
Tall Megan: what?
Me: I mean, not "just," bc if i'd just done it, i probably wouldnt want to be bleeding all over my keyboard. but quite recently. before i sat down to eat lunch
TM: are you ok?
Me: yeah, but it was really weird. like, i opened this can of preserves that the lid was on really tight, and i kind of bumped my knuckle, but i didnt think anything of it til i went to flip the tortillas in my pan and i splattered blood of all over them. it was disgusting
TM: ew!
Me: yeah, it was super gross. i mean, i still ate them
TM: well, right.
How am I sick again?!
That’s a rhetorical question of course. I’m sick because my niece, who’s currently enduring her first cold (quite stoically I might add), snotted her adorable baby snot all over me this weekend, and instead of minding, I would just hug her closer and say, “well isn’t that just the cutest little sneeze I’ve ever heard? Yes it was! Yes it was the cutest...
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“You know what American Ninja Warrior is, right?”
– Tall Megan, trying to tell me a story.
No Megan, I don’t know what American Ninja Warrior is. But continue.
I'm just gonna throw this out there. Me - bangs....
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What's your WOTY?
Alright, alright, I know I’m a little late on the ‘what’s in store for the new year’ posts, but I was inspired awhile back by shirtdress to think of a word for 2011. Fifteen days into January, and I’m finally getting around to it. Not bad, right? Anyways, so it’s not a resolution, exactly, or a motto, but just a word that when I look back next January, I can say I lived by it as best I could. A...
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Realizing I'm rather late to the party
But I *just* heard the Dougie song for the first time.
Senator McCain, elder statesman →
From the senator’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post:
Our political discourse should be more civil than it currently is, and we all, myself included, bear some responsibility for it not being so. It probably asks too much of human nature to expect any of us to be restrained at all times by persistent modesty and empathy from committing rhetorical excesses that exaggerate our...
“In a city that works overtime to make you feel alone, there is perhaps no more...”
– So glad I’m currently hanging in DC where CVS is king, or I’d probably start crying every time I walked by a Duane Reade this weekend.
Alex Balk / The Awl (via meredithbklyn)
Me: So i just changed the inside plastic curtain on my shower, and while i was throwing away the used curtain, it occurred to me that if I were to kill someone, it would make the perfect material with which to wrap them up and dispose of the body. That's not healthy, right?
Tall Megan: No, but i've seen that in movies and tv shows. They always use the shower liner. Except if it's clear it doesn't work that well
Me: no, it's white
TM: oh then yeah. maybe you should save it just in case
Me: So i just changed the inside plastic curtain on my shower, and while i was throwing away the used curtain, it occurred to me that if I were to kill someone, it would make the perfect material with which to wrap them up and dispose of the body. That's not healthy, right?
Tall Megan: No, but i've seen that in movies and tv shows. They always use the shower liner. Except if it's clear it doesn't work that well
Me: no, it's white
TM: oh then yeah. maybe you should save it just in case
Anyone have a gently used 13" MacBook laptop...
Ideally, you don’t need it anymore because you’ve moved onto wider-monitored pastures, and not because the zipper’s broken and your computer kept slipping out and crashing to the ground.
But hey, I’m not picky.
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Re-entering society, one brunch at a time
“I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me!”
The first week of January marked my first real foray back to “normal” after my huge work project all but decimated whatever life I’d had before the new year. I’ve been dipping my toe in the social waters since the project actually ended in...
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Or maybe I'm not doing so well after all
Me: is it possible to inhale lasagna up into your nasal cavity?
Mike: did you use a fork on just stick your face in it, cause in that case, yes
Me: gah, it really hurts
Mike: you're falling apart. you forgot how to eat?
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Update: I *may* be somewhat kind of possibly...
Contrary to my earlier assertions, I do not truly believe I am a total failure at life. Sometimes I feel like I am. Yesterday I felt like I was. But really, I was upset for having failed at something I don’t even care that much about. It was more of a “I’m bad at being a grown-up” disappointment in myself. It won’t matter in twenty years, so I’m letting it go....