Bastard
“I think that the female equivalent of bastard is… not a nice thing to call a girl.”
- Mykala Lind
Mykala
I love this backlit sunset technique; I’ve got to use it more often!
“I think that the female equivalent of bastard is… not a nice thing to call a girl.”
- Mykala Lind
Mykala choreographed a great dance to Psapp - Leaving in Coffins. I love how unique the sound of that band is. Really really fun sound. And if Mykala hasn’t won a competition award for that choreography yet, she’ll probably win one soon.
I am now officially a D2. Physiology final grade == A! Now off to taste wedding entrées with my lovely fiancée. Tonight, Legally Blonde the Musical. Tomorrow, more things!
Originally, I said “Tomorrow, the world”, but I’m trying to avoid clichéd language in my writing. Good luck with that. See what I did there?
I asked a fellow dental student of mine what he was doing this weekend. “Going to get a cavity filled.”
Mykala and I are busy, busy. She’s gone all weekend for a dance competition and I have a straight set of finals starting Monday. It’s times like these, when you think you haven’t the time, when you absolutely must take a moment to make your significant other feel special in any way you can. It’ll save your relationship, so you can weather the times you both forget to nurture.
Ostensibly, the reason for my total radio silence on tumbledry is clear: the second half of my first semester of dental school was extraordinarily busy. For example: for the first time since I began working out in 1999, I voluntarily gave up the gym for six weeks. I ran through gross anatomy flash cards on the bus to and from school, I ran through flash cards before sleeping, I ran through flash cards with Mykala, I ran through flash cards while walking across the train tracks between my bus stop and apartment, I woke up running through flash cards in my mind. Incidentally, I slept little. I skipped so many meals that by the end of the semester I looked at the mirror and was shocked to see someone who appeared quite gaunt. So, that would seem to be the full story. It is not.
Good news! In the past few days, Mykala and I put together our wedding website. You can find the product of our work at alexandmykala.com. We’re both really happy with how it turned out and I’m looking forward to including it on invitations.
Twelve hour dental school days aren’t even long anymore. They’re just typical. At the end of them, you come back home (starving, if you didn’t pack a dinner) and just settle in and try to concentrate on more work until bedtime. Thankfully, nothing is hard per se… it’s just a gigantic pile of things to memorize.
Dentistry — hoo boy, they make you earn it to work in this occupation. It was a long long day, and my left eye seems to be twitching for some reason. (Note to left eye: please stop! Ok, thanks, bye!) I did make it outside to sit and eat a spot of lunch with Mykala as she was coming back from Marriage and Family Therapy related classes. Such a (literal, figurative, actual, metaphorical, etc., et al.) ray of sunshine in the middle of the day.
Mykala is back, blogging again! After an extended hiatus, Unicorndog.com lives again. It is, as promised, powered by the Pax system I’ve been working on since January.
The reason it looks so similar to this website has nothing to do with both websites running the same software, it’s just that I haven’t had time to refine the style of Mykala’s page. We’ll get around to that… but in the meantime both pages are rather obviously cut from the same cloth, so to speak.
Mykala and I have been dating for a bit over 4 years now. We’ve shared successes and failures, satisfaction and disappointment, snow days and beach days. (Some of it is recorded here on tumbledry, which I am rather happy about.) I am, however, getting ahead of myself. You see, it all began when Caley introduced us — don’t forget to click on that link, because it’s a wonderfully kind and well-written account of When Mykala Met Alex. Ahh, nostalgia!
I love this backlit sunset technique; I’ve got to use it more often!
These battered potatoes were delicious.
We set up this self-portrait with a timer.
Even though this picture is not in focus, I had to include this because Mykala’s expression is fantastic.
This was one of the most perfect days I’ve had. I called in sick to work, and then Mykala and I went to the zoo. We rode the merry-go-round and lay out in the sun. The weather was gorgeous, and as we looked up at the blue sky from our blanket on the grass, I realized that life does not get better. It isn’t the dark dull days at the office that indelibly print on your memory — no, it is the days in the sun. As the skies turned cloudy and threatened rain, we fell in love all over again.
It may look like Mykala was Photoshopped into this picture, but she was, in fact, not.
Here’s an excerpt from Metacritic’s synopsis of the 2004 film Garden State:
Her warmth and fearlessness give him the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life.
I had a wonderful weekend with Mykala: we celebrated my birthday Friday night with a little dental school shirt shopping and Cheesecake Factory dinner. It’s almost warm enough to eat outside — summer is still struggling to get its act together. I pretended to be warm for the duration of our meal out on the restaurant’s patio… but I somehow don’t think I was fooling anyone. If Mykala asks though, I was perfectly toasty — I have to maintain some masculine bravado, even if it’s only in the realm of temperature tolerance.
The two of us, before heading out for a nice evening.
This is Mykala’s new bike! We will go for wonderful rides.
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