meggoddard

Signs You've Been In The Theater Too Much:

2006-04-07T03:53:13Z

Your weekend consists of Monday, and only Monday.
"Q" is not just a letter. National holidays that
fall on Monday seem pointless to you. You know
more than one theory for the origin of the name
"green room." You can only read from a light that
is blue. You consider the red part of the
stoplight the "standby." You can't remember what
daylight looks like. You feel naked without your
keys attached to your belt loop, or your belt
without your Maglite, Leatherman, and Gerber. You
know tie-line has several uses - shoelaces,
belts, ponytail holders... 95% of your wardrobe
is black. You watch the Super Bowl, waiting for
intermission, not half-time. You tell more
stories of what went wrong on shows you've done
than what went smoothly. You start wondering what
it feels like to be a prop. You know anything can
be fixed with duct tape, Mortite, sculpter-coat,
a sharpie, tie-line, and a safety pin. Your diet
consists of fast food or microwaved food. Your
Halloween costume in some way utilizes running
blacks and gaff tape. Varying your diet means
ordering the #2 instead of the #3, or eating with
your left hand instead of your right. You
understand the jokes in Forbidden Broadway. You
insist on spelling "theatre" with an "re" - not
an "er". People recognize you by the sound of
your keys jingling down the hallway. Going to a
restaurant means ordering and sitting down in
McDonald's rather than the drive-thru. You'd
heard of Mandy Patinkin before he was on Chicago
Hope. "Practical," "drop," and "flat" are nouns.
Instead of saying that you're leaving, you say
you're "exiting." At home, you "strike" your
dishes to the kitchen. If someone asks you what
time it is, you respond with something like,
"Half hour 'til half hour."

this and more at http://www.apc.net/ia/ztheater.htm

meggoddard @ 2005-12-23T18:41:00

2005-12-23T23:49:57Z

my backyard (which will soon be no longer my backyard, sad)

as much as i hate the whole cold thing that goes along with snow, it sure is pretty.

meggoddard @ 2005-12-07T17:21:00

2005-12-08T01:31:24Z

Goods:
-no more classes this semester
-no more papers this semester
-4 days until i have to do anything again
-our quad's christmas tree!!!
-the moon/sunsets recently
-showering
-quality EMILY time
-Nate getting hired for a real SMing gig
-gooses...or geese if you want to be boring
-tech class party on Friday...attire: dressy, no jeans, brian's making truffles ;)
-I got a real job! Econ grader!! I'm amazing

Bads:
-no more tech class :(
-not getting to see enough of people before i have to leave and go home because everyone is just too busy
-4 finals in 2.5 days next week
-my history final...kill me now please...who actually puts passage identifications on college finals! we aren't in middle school anymore!

Good wins! Yay! :)

Tonight's plan: dinner with my favorite twin ever, the girl who is just always right about life, then study party with carrie by the christmas tree, which already has presents under it!

meggoddard @ 2005-12-05T13:10:00

2005-12-05T21:22:06Z

A good friend of mine recently pointed out that my lj updates recently have been sort of on the negative side, and he was right. Things in my life that are amazing (or kind of amazing depending on how well you know me and kendra):
-my friends...it is true. You are amazing. Every single one of you all over the world, and I don't tell you guys that enough. You guys are what get me out of moods like the one I was in this past weekend.
-Emily's house
-The food at Emily's house
-hot tubs in SB on cliffs overlooking the beach at night with the stars and the moon being gorgeous
-the shooting star we saw on the drive home (shooting stars in LA!?!?!? I know, it was kind of AMAZING) ;)
-the text message I got last night that said "you are too"
-my story telling abilities
-I got asked to be in a movie today
-the cog sci lab I decided wasn't worth doing during my tech week, I can now, that I have more time, do it and hand it in without any consequences
-my friends
-futons
-getting 8 hours of sleep a night for over a week
-the fact that it is the holiday season!!
-I still have 2 whole weeks with Emily (I'm trying to put a positive spin on it)
-I get to see people I haven't seen in forever over break!
-my friends :-D

Yay!!! Now I'm off to do that lab I never did and can hand in weeks late because life is good to me.

meggoddard @ 2005-12-03T20:54:00

2005-12-04T05:02:00Z

I've had a really weird day. I've been in a really weird mood ever since I've got up. I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed...literally. I just woke up frustrated, and it still hasn't gone away. I don't know why, and I can't explain it, but all day everything has been really frustrating, and I can't make it stop. I feel bad because it has affected the way I've been interacting with people all day. I also had a moment, while i was watching sex and the city, when I realized how much i miss my high school friends. I love it here. So so so so so much, but I miss spending our weekends going to movies and spending hours afterwords at friendly's eating ice cream and laughing non stop. I love my friends here, but I don't have as many of those moments anymore. I don't know why. I miss having those people who know me so well around. :/

Fanstastiprov is tonight, so until then I'm going to crawl into bed and watch sex and the city instead of doing my econ homework. And I'll probably get frustrated at sex and the city too, because I wish it didn't hit home as much as it does sometimes.

meggoddard @ 2005-12-01T14:43:00

2005-12-01T22:52:12Z

I did end up crawling into bed and watching a movie last night. In fact...Kendra and I had a Hugh Grant double header! Notting Hill, and Love Actually...it was amazing. Then I stayed in bed and went to sleep. It was great. The guest director for Bing, Chris Fields, turns out, was in the movie The Game. So nate and I are watching it tonight to i guess celebrate his midterm being over....I guess, but I'm really excited because I havent seen this movie in a really long time, and all I remember was that my cousin recommended that I watch it, and I loved it, so I'm excited to see it again with someone who's never seen it before! Basically I've replaced theater rehearsals with movie watching. A fair trade I think :)

meggoddard @ 2005-11-30T18:10:00

2005-12-01T02:16:34Z

I feel lousy...

So I don't feel so hot. I'm not actually sick (yet...knocks on wood). I'm just really tired and all of a sudden feel completely worn out. I have no energy all of a sudden. In the past hour this happened. I was all happy and energetic that I have all this free time all of a sudden because I have no play, but then I just crashed. And at dinner my tummy hurt but I knew I should eat so I had dinner with Nate and Carrie. And I got a grilled cheese cause I thought it would be easy on my stomach and the boy ate half of it :( So now I'm left hungry and queasy. So I'm going to finish editing my paper, and crawl into bed with a movie. I'm just worried I'll fall asleep too early and wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go to back to sleep :/ Really I'm just cranky and want to complain. For the first time in a long time though the crankiness isnt from stress, just from feeling crappy. Sigh. Work time then make me feel better time.

I like the smiley face that goes with "sick" as my mood. I feel like if I were a little kid describing how I feel through facial expressions that is exactly what I would do. Minus the make my face green part :)

meggoddard @ 2005-11-16T15:02:00

2005-11-16T23:02:33Z

My arm has the flu. I got my flu shot today. OPENING NIGHT TONIGHT!! come see Eyolf!!! (Wed-Sat 7:30 or Sunday at 2...so many times you don't have an excuse to not be here!!)

While I was not working earlier I found this on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Porter%27s

It's weird enough that my high school is on wikipedia, but the fact that reading the entry made me miss porter's for the first time in a long time. Not enough to wish I was still there, but Moonbeams gets me every time :)

I'm so silly.

I should be working, story of my life.

But instead I'm going to eat..again..the other story of my life.

COME SEE MY SHOW

update on the Herold's camp

2005-11-01T21:26:06Z

My Dad forwarded this to me from Ed Hoe yesterday...

According to John Kimberly, who spoke to Marissa Saturday, the Herold camp is under contract for full-price to Tom Conrad, who had the contract on Elizabeth's camp this Summer. I took him 24 hours to decide to buy it. John Kimberly likes the guy. He rented John's camp a few years ago. Doesn't know much about sailing but is happy to own the Idem and is looking forward to learning to sail it.

Ed Hoe

Apparently he has two young children 7 and 4 (ish)...yay for sailing clinic, and has rented the Kimberly camp for three summers. New neighbors.

Our lake is gossip central.

wow...

2005-10-31T22:33:47Z

This is a copy of an email I got today from the person we all went to India with. Some of what is going on in the area right now hits a little close to home. Another piece of great news to get today...

Belle and I visited Spenser over the break, and we were happy to see Dave, Maggie, and Shanna, and sorry to have missed everyone else. Belle did see Jo earlier, but I missed her, as I miss you all!

India (and Pakistan) have been enduring some tragedies, and I want to bring you up to date on what I hear. The KK Shah group from Gujarat went up to Pakistan just after the earthquake, and are still there helping in the terribly chaotic conditions. Clearly their need is more imminent than our mission, and wish that we could help. Some of the observations from Yogesh and Andy offered that the cooperation with Indian and Pakistani military was unprecedented. Remember that Andy had spent some years stationed on the Kashmir border in the Indian Army.

This new hope for better cooperation between the two countries has but put at great risk after Saturday's bombing in Delhi that killed 59. The militants just cannot tolerate the idea of a chance for peace. Similar worldwide in Iraq, Israel, Indonesia, Ireland, and anywhere else potentially. The worst hit market in Delhi was the same place that some of us had found was a great local shopping. This is the market of several streets that we visited twice for textiles, clothes, spice, etc.

As if this is not sufficient tragedy, Tamil Nadu and the southeast are in their monsoon season, and the flooding has been especially bad this year. The river through Kalpakkam is within a few feet of the bridge, and so far 80 people (mostly in the inner areas) have died in floods. So far our village seems to be OK, but of course we would like there to be permanent houses ready. Construction had been going reasonably well, but now expect serious delays.

Another tragic note, over 102 passengers died in the derailment of a train crossing a river in Andhra Pradesh, and this is the same rail line (different train) that we had traveled over in our Chennai to Agra trip. I have nothing but fond memories of the train, but I suppose that there are some major safety issues with the rail there.

I was on that train!! I crossed that bridge!! I bought SO much stuff at that market!!! Its amazing how quickly life can change. On both the big scale, and the small.

tonight....i guess

2005-10-22T10:05:47Z

Went out to dinner with Jeremy and Katie and her brother at Fred 62s...the went to the cocktail lounge at the top of the westin downtown...it rotates...and looks out over downtown...it was amazing...so much fun...why am i discovering all these fun date places....grr...then came home and played never have i ever in katies room...came home to norris...and jeremy and i utilized greg and scott's presant, but we didnt really need it, and had girl talk, it was nice...i enjoyed myself...text messaged nate too much this evening because he was drunk in chicago....and now i'm listening to music and sleeping for the next 10 hours...YES...sadly jeremy has to get up at 7...that wont be fun for him at all. :( He'll live. Sleep has been so amazing all weekend. But lonely cause kendra isnt here :( Ok...I need to stop typing and start sleeping...

meggoddard @ 2005-10-20T23:37:00

2005-10-21T06:43:35Z

Driving is what keeps me sane, and not driving for the last two months is what has made me go insane...luckily I'm now starting to regain my sanity thanks to Nate's car.

I think I've been in a food coma for the past 24 hours (the up/downside to having access to a car).

It is 11:37 and I am going to bed.

My So-Called Life is amazing.

I spent way too much money at victoria's secret today...but they were necessary purchases.

Apparently getting pregnant at baylor gets you kicked out of school, but having an abortion gets you kicked out of texas.

Greg and Scott are gone :( and we miss having boys sleeping on our couch. We no longer have night watchmen.

Amanda lost her voice...probably the most ironic thing I've ever witnessed.

meggoddard @ 2005-10-16T19:49:00

2005-10-17T02:56:04Z

Crazy night last night. Spent it in Keck "doing work." Me, Nate, Jeremy, Sara and Sandy spent the night in Keck trying to be productive and failing miserably. They all had design projects to work on, and I was trying to study for my two midterms. Jeremy however went CRAZY and eventually got me to go crazy too. I had spent all day on a boat (deep sea fishing withe the quad thanks to sara and her dad's amazingness) so not only was i exhausted (had to get up at 430am for this excursion) but the entire world seemed to be rocking if i paid too much attention. That really helped the craziness factor. Highlight of the evening...driving to in-n-out, listening to rent:

Nate: Jeremy, you would like this song.
Jeremy: Why? Because I have AIDS.
Nate: No because it has meaning

followed by a discussion about how that was probably a once in a millennium comment. Considering AIDS has only existed for a few decades, it seems likely no one else has had that conversation before.

Spent all day today in the library studying for cog sci, and now I'm off to a review session for my Genocide class all night. Yay...48 hours and this will all be over...

Fall break just may save my life right now.

meggoddard @ 2005-10-13T20:43:00

2005-10-14T03:44:46Z

I'm having a My So Called Life party over fall break. All day, food, fun, wonderful teenage angst. I love it. Let me know if you want to come play too. :)

meggoddard @ 2005-10-12T19:15:00

2005-10-13T02:17:28Z

I can't...but I will continue to do so because I can't not.

When I fall
It's always the same
And I'm so tired
-Eagle Eye Cherry

meggoddard @ 2005-10-10T22:15:00

2005-10-11T05:16:17Z

Post a comment and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
4. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
6. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
7. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

procrastinating...

2005-10-11T01:43:17Z

I don't know why no one ever told me this before...but Taco Truck: AMAZING. I went there once last year and got tacos and wasnt overly impressed...this time though, 2am..with laura and shannon...veggie quasadilla...oh my god, so amazing.

Now I'm in the library not being productive at all (story of my day). But earlier Jeremy called and made me go up to keck (the beginning of my not productiveness). He and Rachel made bracelets for our IWTKAIKBOTAMIIAIKWNTENAIKOA club. Which, was, I have to admit kind of amazing. On my way home I bothered Nate and made him unproductive as well. yay...now back to the paper...yay.

This is my first time back in the secret bee room all year, I missed it. Ever since I started loving working in Keck I never come down here anymore. I'll have to make an effort to get more sleep at night (so I wont need to take naps) so I can be productive during the day and come here and work. ha...that'll happen.

WHAT

2005-10-09T02:00:16Z

This means very little to most of you...but...the Herolds are selling their camp!!! WHAT!?!?! Now, to explain this to the rest of you...my grandparents have a house on a lake in the adirondacks (up up upstate ny), and our neighbors are selling their house. Now...we call it a camp, not a house (its complicated, dont ask) and because of the size of my extended family we need more space, and i REALLY want us to buy their camp and join it with ours..but I don't really think that's going to happen because camps are so freaking expensive now because of the stupid people who sold theirs for way too much money :( But not only that, but...the Herold's can't LEAVE thats just not ok...who am I going to crew for now?!!? And what is going to happen to their idem!?! (the sail boat in my picture!!) Ok, I'm done being sad and freaking out :( Not really...but I can pretend :(

and ps...the smiley face for my mood..totally not appropriate

Amazing

2005-10-08T17:46:17Z

Amazing body image boost last night. I'm a fan. Not so much a fan of the whole new Xuqa thing...I feel myself getting sucked in and there is nothing I can do about it!!

Dinner with my dad, Nate, Emily and Amanda last night. We went to the Tratorria in old town. Amazing flourless chocolate cake. Then came home to an amazing bonding night with my amazing roommate. Then body image boost and bed :) Amazing

In hollywood with my Dad for the day.

meggoddard @ 2005-10-06T13:16:00

2005-10-06T20:16:39Z

Dad gets in tonight.

meggoddard @ 2005-10-05T22:00:00

2005-10-06T04:49:52Z

Days are a lot longer when you don't take naps....

our new club

2005-10-05T23:57:28Z

MegGoddard: do you have a production meeting tonight?
thatsMrAbe2u: yup
thatsMrAbe2u: in 15 minutes
thatsMrAbe2u: so i should head up soon
MegGoddard: and a designer run through, fun night
thatsMrAbe2u: i know
thatsMrAbe2u: i want to kill someone
thatsMrAbe2u: but life happens
MegGoddard: we should start a club
thatsMrAbe2u: oh, i already have
MegGoddard: "my life makes me want to kill someone" club
thatsMrAbe2u: but this one can be more specific
thatsMrAbe2u: the "i want to kill someone involved with anything in keck" club
MegGoddard: no...the "i want to kill someone because i'm too involved with anything in keck" club
thatsMrAbe2u: no, it has to be someone in keck
MegGoddard: ok...true
thatsMrAbe2u: but we can add your disclaimer too
thatsMrAbe2u: "i want to kill anyone in keck because of their and my involvement in anything in keck which needs to end now" club
MegGoddard: ok, i like it
MegGoddard: i like it a lot
thatsMrAbe2u: you think it'll fit on the club bracelet?
MegGoddard: haha, it damn well better...and if not, we can use the initials....the iwtkaikbotamiiaikwnten club
thatsMrAbe2u: i was just thinking the exact same thing!!!! hahahahahahahaha
MegGoddard: we're kind of amazing
thatsMrAbe2u: and the fact that our acronym is that long is commendable
MegGoddard: also kind of amazing
MegGoddard: : )
thatsMrAbe2u: the "i want to kill anyone in keck because of their and my involvement in anything in keck which needs to end now and is totally kind of amazing" club
MegGoddard: perfect

enjoying my ONE night this week off from rehearsal, and spending it doing what? oh, reading an entire book on the holocaust and studying for a midterm...wahoo

bored

2005-09-29T04:15:47Z

So...I'm in rehearsal, and I'm kind of bored. Interesting. quote of the night:

Chris to Samara: "Wait! You and Alan decided you and I weren't having sex WITHOUT ME!?"

Alan really wants every character in this show to be having sex with every one else. We keep trying to explain to him...Alan, this isn't BING. It's IBSEN!!!

I have 200 pages of reading to do when I get home at 11...wahoo!

It seems like my desperate attempt to not drink caffeine in college may not work out so well this semester...

the weekend

2005-09-28T04:56:09Z

I had a crazy weekend. It was great though.

It started Thursday...Friday was fun. Friday night we all went to Carrie's house for Bubba Palooza. Henry and Carrie wanted to plan a "Facebook party" so they did. Carrie has an amazing house with a great backyard. Paddle tennis (Adam and I kicked ass...sorry henry), a jac-ool....a jaccuzzi+a pool+way cool, a great grill, the works. Gorgeous christmas lights lit up the entire yard which were left over from her sister's wedding. I was in one of the first cars to get there, so we cracked open the fridge and made the guac...ate it all...and made more before more people got there and realized we'd eaten it all. Once everyone got there the boys got the grill going, and started pumping out hamburgers and hot dogs. Dinner was followed by an, um...interesting game of 10 fingers. Hailey got out after the first 10 people...um...yeah. We let her have more fingers. By the time we were done all the boys were jacooling it up. Quality poolside time and dance party time, the usual. Kendra drove me and Ben home and then headed up to berkley and left me all alone for the weekend :( Luckily she had an AMAZING weekend! I got home and hung out in blue with jeremy, and then against his advice went to play with Nate and Nathan for a while.

Saturday morning...I mean afternoon I went to Jo's richter presentation for her india experience. She's awesome. Then I sat and had breakfast with Nate and Nathan for like 2 hours outside the bookstore. It was such a gorgeous day out. I didn't want to go back inside. But I sucked it up and went home. It was a quiet weekend in the quad. I had a "me afternoon" and then got all ready for the night with the girls. Got all cute, went for dinner, the first half hour of the football game, and then culture clash. Culture clash was amazing. It just added to the intensity level of my weekend. That night was margarita night in our quad followed by nathan's birthday party in pauley. It was weird though because when we got there the party was moving off campus, and my friends went with them while I stayed behind to have heart to hearts with shannon and then rachel. I was shannon's muse while she painted and we had a wonderful conversation. Then I headed upstairs with Rachel until Nate came home.

Sunday was kind of a waste of a day. I didn't get up until 4, rehearsal at 5..hmm...it was amazing though. Sometimes you just need days like that. It was made even more amazing because adam brought me breakfast in bed. mmmmm. And now another week has begun. Little to no sleep again last night, but I took a 4 hour nap yesterday so I feel fine actually.

Oh, exciting news of the day...I LOVE TECH LAB....so very much. It reminded me how much I LOVED doing habitat for humanity at porter's. Last night at 21 choices, the woman working there saw my porter's sweatshirt and thought it was a restaurant :)

Tonight in rehearsal I actually had to act, it was slightly upsetting. But Amy and Mike and I messed with the tape we are making for alan of today's improvs (he isnt here today). We added our own little improvs while the cast was gone. Mike and I reminisced about Candide...and Amy pretended to.

spinning

2005-09-26T00:36:33Z

"you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed. but can you ever just be
whelmed?" - 10 things i hate about

My head is still spinning. In a good way, but definitely still spinning. As hard as honest conversations can be, they are definitely worth it.

Now I have to go to rehearsal and try and keep my head from spinning off my shoulders before it is over.

Sigh

Thank-you