Greetings friends, family, and hopefully future followers. Welcome to the MegTom blog documentary. We apologize that we have been so late in starting this blog so before we continue, it is probably best to share with you what our lives have been like for the past three months. In the spirit of organization, we'll break it down by month:
May 2010: WE GRADUATED! So, you must be dying to know, what MegTom did immediately upon receiving their dual degrees in Neuroscience and Music. Well, first we ate, then we napped, and then we proceeded to pillage the campus dumpsters from 7 PM until 11PM. All in all we raked in three full carloads of furniture, cleaning supplies, cutlery, flatware, and food all while chanting "PILLAGE THE VILLAGE!" Hey, when you are a student it's fine, but when you graduate, you are just po'.
June & July 2010: Thanks to the kindness of Muhlenberg's Office of Residential Services, we were able to avoid the rush of moving out immediately after graduation and received an extension for living for a few more days in Robertson. For those of you who are familiar with our little Wheat Family, it was quite sad to dismantle the Wheat Compound and pack away the quote walls and shared items. A very final reminder that our time at Muhlenberg has come to an end. With that said, Thomas was a genius and scored FREE RENT for the summer
It was quite a coup, let me tell you. Thomas only had to work his eyelash-batting magic to score the deal with ORS. Or rather, he was on the Muhlenberg Community Garden Governance Committee and was put in charge of deciding who got to live in the garden house over the summer. Pick the story you find preferable.
So anyway, back to the garden. Sweet gig overall. In exchange for living in the Garden House from May 27 - August 20 for free, MegTom and two other students were responsible for making sure that the garden didn't turn into a big flop over the summer. I don't think it's actually possible to either explain or describe what the summer was like so I'm going to write a list of topics you can ask us to elaborate upon when we get together for drinks: a groundhog family named Wallace and Gromit, weeds, crab apples, 10+ foot ceilings, "Clarissa Explains It All"-esque window arrangement, weeds, 95+ Fahrenheit humidity, medical school applications, croquet, a closet located on stairway landing, cool early-morning dew, Garden Work Days, the obesity epidemic that just hit the Allentown rodent community this past summer, and ... oh right, weeds.
This summer has flown by stupid fast.
And this is a stupid long post...we'll be sure to throw some photos and of course give you our August update later. As for now, we are about to devour a picnic lunch on the front lawn of Muhlenberg College. This meal was brought to you by the excesses of Orientation 2010 weekend...pulled pork, rice, buns, cookies (made by yours truly and Meg's Mommy), etc. The only thing we forgot...EtOH. Damn, it's not senior week anymore.
