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November 29, 2005
My brother & my boyfriend...
Getting Down at the Summit on Doug's Birthday!
Thanks Dan!
Posted by meloknee at 12:34 PM | Comments (2)
November 28, 2005
Meloknee on:
Whores.
I got this email the other day:
Hello,
I wanted to inquire about exchanging blogs links/blogrolls with you. We have just started a new "_____ Blog" at http://www.________.com, a very active large _______ community. To visit the blog, you may go straight there by click here: http://www._________.com/____-blog
Let us know if you would be interested!
Warmest,
Michael
What is up with that? He is totally whoring out his blog and expecting me to go along with it. What an ass. This is not the way blogging works, is it? I am working on my response. Something along the lines of:
Dear you stupid whore,
If you want me to link to your blog, perhaps you should read mine, comment on mine, link to mine. Then, maybe, if I feel so inclined, I will read yours, comment on your and then maybe, just maybe, if I like you, if you are funny, if you stop being a stupid whore, I will link to you. Or, just send cash.
Thank you,
meloknee
Posted by meloknee at 12:12 PM | Comments (4)
November 22, 2005
TGINIHSAD Final Installment
I have got to say, I couldn't find anymore embarrassing dance pics, so i give you a variety here. I'm not thrilled with my choices; next year I'll have to scour the parents pics and my old high school stuff that's packed away in storage.
Left to right:
1) Summer of '95 me in the middle with all my dirty skater friends
2) The week after HS grad, the tall one on the right was my BF
3) Fall of '92, freshman year-I Hate This Picture!!
4) Me and a friend '93 at the mall!!
5) Me, summer after HS grad
6) Group of my friends my junior year.
Posted by meloknee at 01:57 PM | Comments (5)
Senior Prom
This is senior prom 1996. The only reason I had any fun at all was because my friend Erica went with me. She's the hot blonde on the right. We spent the whole night trying to avoid our dates. Mine was nice, but I asked him to go with me as a friend because I didn't hang out with any guys that were still in high school and he had graduated a year or two before from a different school. Well, he thought that I liked him, which I guess you could infer that since I asked him to take me on a date, but i didn't. I had my eyes set on a different prize...
Anyway, Erica and I just recently got back into contact and it's been fabulous. These pictures are making us crack up!! I think our senior year we were together nearly every day, through some really, really hard shit. I'm glad to have her back in my life because we went through so many things that year no one has ever been able to understand it. Now, I have someone to testify to part of the reason I'm as crazy as I am :)
Posted by meloknee at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)
Thank God I'm Not In High School Anymore Day
For the early risers, I give you this, but there is more...yes much more, to come.
So the update: These pics are both from my sophomore year in high school, which would be 93-94. The first pic, I had braces, the second they were finally off!!!
As a sidenote, the boy I am with in both pics was my bf my whole sophomore year. He was a senior, I dumped him in a very, very NOT nice way a week before this prom, his senior prom.
I will forever feel like an evil selfish little bitch for that. Especially considereing my 16th bday was just two weeks before this and he had thrown me a phat partay.
Posted by meloknee at 12:18 AM | Comments (12)
November 21, 2005
Fresno, You Know!
So, how about those Bulldogs, eh?
Good game on Saturday against USC. In honor of the Dawgs, I give you a
picture of my sister and I taken at the mall with Timeout, the Fresno St. mascot. I remember being so embarrassed taking this picture, but my little sister really wanted to and she was scared to sit on his lap by herself, alas, I gave in. You can see that my face is bright red with humiliation. I was so worried that one of my friends would see me at the mall with my mom and sister.
Today I'm proudly wearing my Fresno State Girls Rock t-shirt!
Also...Don't forget tomorrow is Thank God I'm Not In High School Anymore Day!! Post those pics!!!
Posted by meloknee at 12:50 PM | Comments (3)
November 17, 2005
Meloknee on:
Why it's good to do an internship or volunteer work before you commit to your master's program:
I do not want to be a school librarian. No way, jose.
First, I have discovered, despite my group home work, I do not like working with kids. I think the main difference is that with the group home, it was small groups, max 6 kids at a time. Even at 6 kids there was always at least a 1:3 ratio. I can't handle 20 kids at once. I just want to smack them all around. That's the other thing, at the group home, I could totally yell at them and no one cared--they weren't getting' smacked so they were happy. Oh, and when they were really crazy, I had the right to restrain them - pin them on the ground - until they calmed down.
Anyway, there are many reasons why I have determined school librarianship is not for me. When you work in a class and you don't have a teacher's aide, you can't go take a bathroom break or a coffee break. This SUCKS. This is unacceptable in my book. I have to pee, a lot. I have to be able to pee as many times a day as I want. This is a requirement of my workplace. I can't worry about leaving 20 little hellions to go pee.
I also have to have coffee whenever I want. No, not teacher's lounge coffee, real coffee. You don't get one break all day that is long enough to hit up the local coffee shop. Unacceptable.
Those are just two of the basic reasons, there are many more, but who needs more than that?
Yep, there was a time when I thought summers off and winter & spring break made up for all the hassle, but it doesn't.
There are many other arenas in the MLIS field for me to try out...what next?
Posted by meloknee at 02:50 PM | Comments (2)
November 16, 2005
Introducing: Thank God I Am Not In High School Anymore Day
Armsweat has called upon us to display our high school prom/formal pictures. Together, through massive brain storming, we have named Tuesday, Nov. 22nd, in honor of Thanksgiving, the Thank God I Am Not In High School Anymore Day. This day is the day in which all of you people shall post your most dreadful formal picture on the interwebs.
Posted by meloknee at 03:15 PM | Comments (1)
November 15, 2005
Confessions
I like the Ellen Show.
There, I said it, phew.
Posted by meloknee at 03:57 PM | Comments (0)
November 12, 2005
My life, is so exciting, you don't even know.
Ah, weekends, so unpredictable.
I awoke this morning and read Raymond Chandler's Little Sister. Almost done with that. Went to TJs, made breakfast, and then I swear I must have drugged me because after breakfast I fell back asleep for 2 hours (I had already had 10 hours of sleep).
Now it feels like practically midnight, every year it still blows me away how dark it gets here. We still have over a month for it to get even darker. It's only 5:00, and I feel like crawling back into bed, but that would mean a whole weekend of not going out and so I'd feel like a total loser ;)
So then I thought, hey, I'll be crazy, wild even and not just go sit at the usual hole, I'll go to a show. I know a bunch of people that will be there, and it's at my favorite venue, The Showbox. Showbox is especially good for all ages events because the bars are raised in the back so you get to stand above all the youngins' and look out at them with your drink in your hand and say to yourself, "These are my people, they worship me." Even though they are all looking in the opposite direction...anyway, plan FAILED.
Broken Social Scene is SOLD OUT!
So, back to the hole that I know and love, to sit at the bar. At least I'll get to take Aggielicious with me. Down with Crazy!! Down with Wild!! I'm just not cut out for it I s'pose.
Posted by meloknee at 05:00 PM | Comments (4)
November 11, 2005
Have I ever told you...
...about my 15 minutes of fame? Except that it's kind of more like a month of fame since that's how long magazines sit on the shelves.
A friend of mine, Andy Davey, is a professional photographer down in Santa Monica. He was in Fresno visiting one weekend and asked if I would want to be in a photo shoot he was doing for a magazine, Bikini, he explained that it was not a bathing suit mag, so I said yes!
He asked me to wear my glasses and to bring my retainer, he wanted me to look like a nerd, which is easy enough, since I am [a nerd].
It was a blast, I got my hair done, make-up, nails, eyebrows tweased, a whole freakin' wardrobe. My payment: free Hard Candy nail polish and Puma's oh and of course, the chance to become a star. Not that I, at 5' 2" and chubby round face, expected to become a model, but a girl can dream, right?
So, here it is, my claim to fame:
All photos by Andrew Knudson-Davey
Posted by meloknee at 01:15 PM | Comments (8)
November 10, 2005
Found Photo
I was walking to work this morning and found this picture on the sidewalk. It reminded me of two things. One, how horrible those family trips to portrait photographer were. Oh, how I dreaded them. My mom would make me curl my hair and put make-up on. We'd have to wear matching outfits - okay, that never happened, but we had to go with some color theme. No one wanted to do it, and it's no wonder. They aren't even hanging up in my parent's house. They don't even like them, everyone looks fake. I think the last one we did besides all the weddings since then was when I was 16, ah, the awkward years, at least we get to remember those. The pictures I take every Christmas with my tripod and 35mm camera are much better (especially when either my dad or I would fart and make everyone laugh so hard).
The other thing it reminded me of was when I was a kid I wanted to be a detective. I'd go around the neighborhood and look for "clues," old pictures, receipts, just random things on the ground. I'd collect them all and then make up a story about these things and a mystery I needed to solve. Maybe this explains my obsession with Robert Parker's novels, especially the Spenser ones. Spenser is my hero, he loves to drink, eat and cook delicious food, spend time with his gorgeous woman, solve crime and read books just so he can quote form them and sound smart. That's why when I read a quote somewhere from a research librarian that she felt like Spenser: For Hire, I knew that's what I should do with my life.
Posted by meloknee at 01:06 PM | Comments (9)
November 09, 2005
all about work today
So, my coworker and I just had a gum eating contest, as in who could chew the most pieces of Double Bubble in one minute, then continue chewing for the following minute.
Score:
Chris: 10, Mel: 7
boo-hoo
On another note, we were just talking about where we should go for happy hour tomorrow and I was looking at Citysearch. Have you seen the reviews for the Summit??!! Hilarious (once you scroll past the "recommended" ones.
I almost got defensive and then thought, no this is fabulous, no one will ever want to go there.
UPDATE: For happy hour info check SeattleDrunks Wiki
Posted by meloknee at 03:45 PM | Comments (5)
You can't completely hate working here...
Yesterday, one of my nice, sweet coworkers came back from vacation and left a bowl of candy on the counter with this sign:
In response, today someone left this:
Posted by meloknee at 12:41 PM | Comments (2)
November 07, 2005
silly search string
is it true after knee surgery you have to retrain your brain ho
in my stats page, it's obvious that this search string got cut off, however...
Due to my homie-G mindset, I automatically read this search string as this:
Is it true dat after knee surgery you got to retrain your brain, ho?!
Posted by meloknee at 03:58 PM | Comments (3)
November 06, 2005
Going to Boston
Liz e-mailed the other day to let us know that plane tickets to Boston were only $79 each way on Jetblue. So Alex and I decided we'd go in December - even though I'm totally broke. I was able to justify it because we're planning for the move.
I am so excited to be going back to Boston. The last time I went was with my friend Collin for my birthday a year and a half ago. We walked everywhere and learned a lot about the city, met some nice people and did some good shopping.
This time, there is a different agenda (aside from seeing Liz of course). I am going to attend an admission event at Simmons and hope to find some info that will help me get into school there. Alex scored us a 4-star hotel on Priceline in Copley Square for only $80/night. We're going to check out some neighborhoods and narrow down where to live come next June.
Posted by meloknee at 09:47 PM | Comments (3)
November 02, 2005
Greetings From an Old Friend
About a week ago I was at the wedding of one of my very special friends, Bonnie. The wedding was fun and it was good to see people I hadn't seen in awhile. As we were leaving, I fell, hard. Not that this is a big surprise, as I tend to fall often. I was wearing fancy heeled boots and I was walking down a ramp and my feet flew out from under me. I landed flat on my back, got up and kept walking.
A week went by and I was in pain. My butt hurt so bad, it was hard to sit, walk, and stand. I was beginning to think I had either broken or badly bruised my tailbone. It took me awhile to put the pieces together and link the pain back to the fall. At first I thought my butt muscles were just sore because I had walked to work in heels twice in one week (my 1.5 mile each way, uphill both ways, walk). Soon enough though I started to realize the pain was under the butt, not in the muscles.
Anyway, I started joking about needing a doughnut pillow to carry around with me. This reminded me of an old friend, a good friend I once had. When I was in the 8th grade and she in the 7th, we didn't know each other too well. One morning while waiting for the bus to take us to our nerd school, Computech, she came up riding her bike and trying to show off by doing a wheelie. Well, let's just say she was wheelie-ing a little too close to the curb, down she went landing straight on her ass. There she was, in the 7th grade having to carry a doughnut pillow around with her at school.
This friend and I both ended up moving to a new school the following year and became good friends. We were definitely the odd ones at our new nazi school. We stayed friends through high school and were on mock trial together, in some plays together, and got to know eachother's families fairly well.
I "lost" contact with pretty much everyone I went to high school with - lost really means I just didn't put any energy into keeping up these relationships. I was so happy to be out I didn't want to look back. Now, it makes me just a little sad to have lost that part of me.
This last weekend, I found something that belonged to this friend of mine. I figured it was time I look her up. Thankfully she's on her way to becoming a big shot attorney, as we always knew she would, so it was easy to find her.
It's brought all sort of great warm & fuzzy feelings to me today. I hope that she holds as many warm memories of me as I do of her. I regret not valuing the friendships of my youth. I spent too much time wanting to grow up. There are a few people out there in the world that I want to have back by my side. Maybe it's too late, maybe I'll make newer better friends, or maybe, just maybe all people suck.
Posted by meloknee at 02:55 PM | Comments (1)
November 01, 2005
Spy vs. Spy
The Summit had a free BBQ for Halloween. It was awesome. Not that many people dressed up, but it was a lot of fun. I ate a bacon, grilled onion, cheese, and mole sauce sandwich. YUMMY.
This was definitely the best costume there. Too bad I didn't get a pic with both of the spies.
Posted by meloknee at 01:28 PM | Comments (0)