in anticipation

Purchased: one tube of Maybelline Wet N' Wild waterproof mascara.

I am most definitely going to cry tomorrow. Absolutely no question about it. Not only is it Rachel and Alexis getting married- Rachel and Alexis, whom I've known for 12 years now, who I've had sleepovers with and whispered with and ridden the bus with and done homework with- but Al Adams is performing the ceremony, better known as Dr. Adams, who was our high school headmaster. And Al (I call him Al because Taylor was friends with his son and I grew up calling him Al) always makes me cry. He has a way with words, and is just about the nicest headmaster you could ask for. I cried at the last assembly for Taylor's high school class. I cried when his Jug Band played at the last assembly for his son Willie's high school class. I cried when the teachers formed an ensemble and played "Ripple" for our class (come to think of it, that song STILL makes me cry, all because of that one performance). I will cry. It is so likely that it may as well have already happened.

Thus, the waterproof mascara.

and on it goes...

Wedding Announcement Of The Week (because it certainly seems to be a weekly thing nowadays): Kevin Cannon and Lauren Trinker, which I have been suspecting to happen for quite some time and am very happy about. The great thing about Kevin, from the perspective of a girl who has mostly boys for friends, is that he doesn't treat other girls any differently when he has a girlfriend/fiancée. Most guys find a girlfriend and then suddenly feel like they aren't allowed to be friends with other girls anymore (and indeed, most girlfriends feel/force them to act this way). Doesn't seem to be true of any of my guy friends getting married currently, for the most part, but it is a general trait I have noticed. I'm pretty sure things with Kevin will stay about the same, though, for the time being at least. We'll still randomely go get coffee at Psychobabble and go to movies and sit around watching trailers on his Apple TV. When we're in Evanston we'll still go for walks late at night on the Lakefill. He isn't swayed easily, Kevin Cannon.

Now I just have to hope that his wedding, "sometime next fall," doesn't coincide with either Deirdre's or Kate's, or anyone else's I may not know of yet.

september

And now we come to September, which promises to be a good month, what with all the old friends to see and the yearly, utterly satisfying overlap of the Major League Baseball season and the college football season. Today Northwestern beat Towson 47 to 14. Woo! Go 'Cats! For some reason this year I care about things like this more than usual. Perhaps it is a function of being utterly lonely.

Home for Wedding #1 in 4 days.

snark

You know what's awesome? It's awesome when your friends move away and suddenly don't give a shit about you anymore, don't answer texts, or phone calls, or emails, or anything. Because goodness knows it's impossible, in this information age, to be friends with people who don't live in the same state as you! Why even bother?

It's almost as awesome as my computer crapping out and being without the internet for days at a time. ALMOST.

woozle

In going through all these photos, I found this forgotten role of 120 film that had a bunch of pictures of David and Willa Marie, back from when she was just a tiny woozle and not the big imaginative talking woozle she is now. This role of film is why I wish I could get my Mamiya fixed, and actually afford to get the film developed.




Medium format is just plain better! Gah!

because i like pictures

It's Saturday night and I have been video taping horse shows in the 100 degree Burbank heat all day (not the sort of thing I thought I would be doing with my MFA), and I've been scanning all these old pictures for Rachel and Alexis and they got me thinking about pictures. I haven't posted any from the summer, so here are some of my favorites:

CHERUBS


the faculty (minus Caleb, who urgently had to go to the gym): Jim, Dusty, Adam, Kevin, Glen, Kevin, Melissa, Joe, Marci and me. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE.


me, Joe, Adam and Glen


faculty dancing... don't let the kids see! (oh wait, there's a kid in there too)


Glen, Marci and me


Dusty, Anthony (one of my advisees) and Joe


4 good kids and Joe: Simon, Jacob, Sam, and Claudia


Ben Ratner (far right) shooting his movie on the Lakefill, with Chicago in the background


Emily (on ground) shooting her project in Tech with an audience of kids from the Center for Talent Development


Kevin at the White Sox game


Adam and Kevin


Brokeback Mountain starring Jim and Kevin!


Melissa, Glen and Adam, bored while chaperoning the "mixer"


FRIENDS AND FAMILY


Pat, me, M-Dep, Tim, Jack, and Kat at a White Sox game


Nat's henna tattoo


Alec and Natalie on a spinny ride


Kane County Fair and midwestern clouds


Jennifer and Avelyn visit


Jamie and Avelyn play


Jessica and Willa Marie, 4th of July on the Lakefill


Jack and Kat at Jack's last public observing session with the Dearborn telescope


Jack is a nerd

Sadly, I have no pictures of Tim, Pat and my drunken viewing of Mamma Mia!, but trust me, the memories are priceless.

Soon I will put up some pictures from Camp and oh hey, maybe tell you something about it. I am deplorably behind in this respect, and I'm sure you're all on pins and needles waiting to hear whether Dad and I won the Trivial Pursuit tournament.

random things on wednesday

a) I'm trying to grow my nails out, and in the process of doing this I have become utterly fascinated with them. I've never tried to grow them out before! I've never wanted actual nails! My nails are weird and squarish, just like my hands, so I always figured they looked better short. But anyway, I'm trying not to bite them, and it makes me feel like Sister Bear in The Berenstein Bears and the Bad Habit, where they put tape on her nails to get her to stop biting them. Except with me it's nail polish- mustn't consume toxic chemicals and all.

b) Do you think they will ever add a president to Mt. Rushmore?

c) A list of famous people who have died this summer, so far:
Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, Karl Malden, Billy Mays, Robert McNamara, Ed McMahon, Steve McNair, Frank McCourt, Walter Cronkite, Arturo Gatti, David Carradine, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, John Hughes, Ted Kennedy, and Dominick Dunne. Geez!