"oooh no! i have turban hair!"


"waaait, i don't have any balls!!" (abi, in reference to the croquet balls.... )


so, rehearsal/tech work tonight. can i just say how much more got done when we DIDN'T have the entire ensemble running around fucking things up? *SIGH* i cannot believe we open thursday. some people in the cast need to get their friggin act together. others are wonderful, and understanding hard workers, who i love dearly.


so, i had to go out and run errands today, hamm tells me i have to go to this place on prentiss and gilbert. so i search and search and search and this guy almost hits me. then this guy turns in front of me and i have to hit the breaks, and i'm SO lost and i'm ready to cry, because i've been ready to cry for like... the past 24 hours or so... so i call nic, and he tells me where i'm going (because nic knows his way around SO much better than i do) and all is good. but, the stupid place closed at 4:30. stupid jerks.


rehearsal. *sigh* lots of waiting for set change stuff. and ben and rob's improv at the end of the tea party scene needs to settle down and not be five minutes long. though, rob's "there's a hare on my sandwich!" is vastly amusing.


we only get one dress rehearsal now *sob* as opposed to the usual.... 2 or 3. daaamn. i'm really hungry. even though i got like, a mini sandwich and cheetos for dinner. they weren't very good cheetos. so whatever.


i love brett and colin because they gave me hugs when i was all upset because i lost my shoes (they turned out to be up in the house, like as far away from the stage as possible. i have NO clue how my shoes got up there, but whatever. colin went and got them for me. wooohooo colin.)


i'm going to go and wash my face, and brush my teeth and try to find clean clothes for tomorrow. yeah.


it was like i was on speed last night. i dont' know what's wrong with me. i was out of control energy. but dont worry, that's all gone now *falls asleep*


*megan*

... what your friends think of you....


according to... quiz box, i think. i dunno, renata's blog has the link somewhere.


"You are cheerful but watch out for gossips. Friends think that you stick your nose into most matters. But because of your cheerfulness, you are often forgiven. Try to be far away as possible from gossips. "


but... but... i love gossiping!


back to cleaning.


*megan*

hey, there's a picture of me! on molly's ... thingy! (i'm talking like abi... aaaah) so yeah. i look all weird though. alas. such is life.

*megan*

some random (VERY random) little side notes.


1. i got all tangled in the phone cord a minute it ago, and fell off my chair. i'm such a dunce.


2. nic and i did some wicked painting jobs today. go us. (if you see the show, check out the mushroom, that was ALL me... and the duchess's house (me and nic) and the rosebushes (me and nic) and *looks at paint stains on pants to remember* the roof of the duchess's house... that was really hard, that was me nic and courtney carr... hmm a few other things, but i'm not remembering them.


3. come see alice in wonderland! thursday, friday and saturday at 7:30 and sunday at 2:00!! woooohooo!


4. at all day rehearsal on wednesday, nina did the grossest thing (but very funny). abi was like "eewww nina, you stink!" so nina reached under her sweat shirt, smeared sweat on her fingers, and was like "abi, smell this!" and abi, who had apparently not been paying attention, smelled it. i was just like "oooh my god, nina, you did NOT just do that!" it was horribly amusing though.


5. tomorrow afterschool, PAINTING. then rehearsal 6ish to forever. be at the painting! we neeed people! (but only people who will help, if your'e just going to stand around, or annoy me, don't come.)


6. second tri starts tomorrow. woooohoooo!


the end!


*megan*

worked tonight (blah) and did tech stuff for alice from 1-4:30 (worked 5-close). so, i'm exhausted. i'm gonna blog for a little bit, then go to bed, because i need to go in again tomorrow at like.... 1:00 again. random sidenote, the only people who have come in to work have been matt, adam, paul williamson (i think hamm made him come in to do lights though. he's one of very few people who know, kind of, what they're doing)... andrew and jayne came in for awhile yesterday... hrmmm courtney came in today and yesterday... arianne, and like... her random friend who did nothing at all... but, aside from that, NO one came in. seriously people. this show is as much yours as it is mine, there is SO much to be done, and we need more than a little group working on it. oh, and nic came in yesterday, out of the goodness of his heart, to help paint. three cheers for nic! speaking of nic, i need to call him.


i can't believe that the show opens this thursday. i saw matt brown today at work, and he asked when the show opened, i was like "oh, this thursday *pause* oh my god. this thursday." it didn't really sink in until just then. so i wandered around panera saying my lines to myself the whole time we were closing. eek.


just called nic. now i dont' have to do that anymore. *nod*


i wish my room was clean. it won't be until after the show. but i wish it were. i can't find any of my clothes. they're all buried. if i dont' find them, i'll be doomed to wear my painting clothes and my work clothes. just alternate them. *sigh*


*megan*

at renata's suggestion, i took the emo test....

I am 58% EMO.

Emo Kid. Well.. You've made the cut! Now go buy some promise rings and knit yourself a sweater. Take the EMO Test at Fuali.com!

this comes as a surprise to me, since i'm rather... *pause* well, happy.


*megan*
*goes to knit a sweater*

quotes: "why, this trial's just been dropped. *pause* why, this isnt' a trial at all! it's a paper! yes."


"i feel like there's a naked mouse next to me"


"hi mr. bunny!"


"*flail* all the face rushed to my bloood!"


"benjamin paul! if you make her sick or hurt her i'll kill you! put her down this minute!"


"it went from cute to pedophile..."


"so... wait... jesus was a zebra?"
"yeah, that why he was so popular"


"rachel and i want to buy a greyhound bus *nod*"


" *in middle of richard's speech* are you a cat?!"
"*cough* why no, i'm a rabbit *continues speech*"


alice tour was fun. Abi and i bonded. *i heart abi*


people keep iming me and it messes up the typing. damn them all. i should just stay off aim when i'm blogging. the only reason i got on was because i miss renata.


so, the show opens a week from tomorrow. nic and i are going to do hella line work tomorrow. so i can pick up my cues faster. and... we're having a set painting part on friday at 1:00 woooooohoooooo set painting!


speaking of parties. the cast party (well, one of a possible two cast parties) will be at my house, after the show on saturday. if you worked on the show or are in the cast, you are very welcome to come. there will be food and whatnot, and goodtimes. *nod* and me! me! i'll be there! come seeee me!!


i'm listening to YAGMCB (you're a good man charlie brown) and it's making me happy. i want an anthony rapp.


i'm exhausted. goodnight, and i heart abi. *waves to abi* oh, randome sidenote, be sure to call abi "queenie" *nod*


*megna*
"doh!" "a deer!" "yay! let's sing! *abi and i start singing*"

this is from like, a week ago, but i figured i'll post it anyhow (i write a lot of stuff offline then post it later that night...) so...
quotes: "i wish i was a french pirate!"


"here, i'll recreate the clocking of matt *pulls giant pole out of java house railing*"


"duuuude, that guy has some cool pants... wait, no... that's just a stain."


recent events: went downtown with nic tonight. goodtimes. as usual, we left with *no* plan whatsoever, just sort of cruising along, we just drove downtown for a while, making fun of all the bar whores, and frat boys... then we randomly parked the jeep and continued our excursion on foot. saw andreeeeeea (who i love, like a siser) and Aric (who darts me) and danley (as in, manly danley) we went to the java house, and while we were sitting on this bench drinking our coffee and hot cocoa and whatnot, i'm looking across the street at the atm thing, and this guy walks out, and i'm like "OH my god, that is NOT!" and nic's like "what are you talking about?" and i'm like "i think that's jeff?!" so, it's jeff (remember jeff? from panera? not too bright... but hot, had a nice car, very sweet) and i'm like "*flail* aaaahg" and nic says "so, wanna stalk him?" and we both jumped up and like, speed walked after him. good times. he *so* saw me, made eye contact and like, total shaft *sob* nic says it's because i was with a hot guy (actually, nic said it was just because i was with a guy, i added the hot part *nod*) but, i think it's because... yeah.


then we continued walking about, reveling in the various smells of the bar people. abercrombie cologne and beer... mmmmm. ooh, the beer band was marching around and two of the trumpets tried to play part of 'you can call me al' but failed. nic and i contemplated going and getting our marching band instruments, but i remembered that i don't drink, aand that i always tell nic *not* to drink. so we scratched that plan.


sidenote: i'm not sure why....but, my left hand says "i heart nic, like a sister" *thinks* OH. i wrote "i heart andrea like a sister" and nic didn't read the like a sister part, and wrote his name over andreeeeeeeeea's.


i looked really out of place downtown, jeans and a light blue sweater with a matching hair ribbon... yeeeeah, i look about five years old. alas.


after the downtown adventures we just drove around iowa city, took some detours out into the fog, drove by mr. neuzil's house (we're such nerds, we spend our friday night driving by our close up advisor's house)... randomly toured around, i showed nic where my dad's shop was, and where jed's apartment is... and we vented about parents, and school and all. it was very therapeutic and i feel so much better now than i did yesterday or even earlier today (yesterday was a break down in tears on the way home from rehearsal kind of night... i cried for a good hour...) so, i'm happy now, typing this offline, 1:27am. going to post it tomorrow sometime. or next wednesday, whatever.


i work tomorrow at 11, there's a home game at 12:00. traffic is going to be hell. maybe i'll go out to the mall at 10:00 (when it opens) get my hair cut out there.... then go to work. yeeeah. that way i can avoid some traffic. hopefully. oh, we need to get my phone fixed (again) sometime this weekend. radioshack sucks.


i'm exhausted, gooooodnight.


*megan*

*sigh* you have no idea how freaked out i was last night. i was *so* close to getting crushed. ugh.


wearing: jeans, flip flops, and a pretty sweater *feels pretty* my hair's kind of curly like too. me gusta.


feeling: myeh, ok. kind of sick to my stomach. but aside from that i'm alright.


listening: and she was, talking heads. heeeey eighties.


should be: cleaning. like, the entire house.


thoughts: i really don't have much to say. today sucked, no real reason. i had my critique for photography, and i suppose it went ok. but i really couldn't tell you. also, i have to go in on monday *sudden realization* i can't go in on monday... i have the grade school tour. fuck.


ok, well plan B.... i will just not do that assignment. *shrug*


i want to go do something tonight. i'm bored. please take me out tonight ^_^


dammit, now i wanna listen to my rent cd... only, SOMEONE has it. *glare in nic's general direction* ok, well i'm going to whip out the bootlegs. *whips out the bootlegs* c'mooooon dom mimi! wooot!


ok, i'm gonna go now. toooodle pip.


*megan*

i sooooo seriously almost got hit by like, three cars on the way home. my fault too. i have way too much on my mind right now, and most of it shouldn't even be my problem. *sigh*

*megan*

wearing: jeans and a redish shirt thing, and my grey really long wool sweater thing.


feeling: *is dying* there's some sort of small phlemy animal in my lungs. that thinks it wants out, but it really doesn't, it just wants to make me horribly ill.


listening: REM i have NO idea what song... it's off of eponymous... i know that much... *rummage*


should be: writing my extra credit paper for english (on rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead)... working on anything school related... *Sigh* i hate finals week, especially when i can't do my finals because of the grade school tour *sob*


thoughts: not only did i fail the hamlet test, i failed spectacularly. the worst i've EVER done on any test. counting chemistry tests. *Sigh*


i have cramps so incredibly bad... i can't sit still, i'm always like "*whistle whistle* OW! *falls off chair*" disregard the fact that i can't whistle.... i'm so tired. i should just go to sleep, tomorrow's a short day.... i hope i manage to get my photography stuff printed tomorrow so i can mount them on friday, because i have to present on friday. that reminds me... i have an ap english final on friday. maybe i'll be able to fail that too. boy, i can't wait.


my feet hurt so bad. ugh. *pause to listen to REM song*


oooh my god, rehearsal tonight. the freshemen.... kathleen LEFT... because hamm wasn't there. so, she's in LOTS of trouble both tomorrow and monday. hamm is going to kill some people before we go on tour. i was so sick at rehearsal the missy and paulina and ben made me sit out in the house and shout my lines towards the stage. i made them let me do the scene we're doing for the tour though, since i want to get the hang of it... yeah.


abi was awesome at rehearsal today, i think she's the only person who can effectivly yell at the freshmen. i would also like to say that jayne, amanda and kelly are NOT the problem... (i dunno if any of them read this.. but yeah) they are the most focused ensemble members... i hope they stick with theatre west so that it doesn't suck in the upcoming years.


i'm ranting to diana about david sedaris.


i'm going to go find some more cold medicine, fare thee well.


*megan*

i had to go to the doctors eeeeearly this morning, because i'm all sick and dying and whatnot. SO. i get there and waaait and waaaaaait and wait. i finally get in, and the resident who sees me has to be the biggest moron in the whole world... he had khakis with bleach spots all over them, and really bright sneakers. and he kept being like "so, you have a cough?" and i was like "yes. *coughing fit*" *sigh* then the staff doctor came in, and kept telling me to go to dermatology as soon as i could make the time... and i was like *sigh* i dont' CARE that i have zits right now, i KNOW i look ugly, it's from stress, believe me... please get over it. *sigh* great self esteem booster. so she decides i have a sinus infection, but thinks that i might have whooping cough, despite not having any of the symptoms, so she wanders out and sends for a nurse. now, here's the reeally gross part, that still makes me sick to think of... the way that they get samples to test is to put a metal rod with cotton on the end of it into each nostril in order to go into the nasally sinusey areas.... and it has to stay in for a minute, and be frigging rotated after thirty seconds.... so, they do the left side, it feels weird, but it's fine. they go to the right side... the brainiacs didn't stop to think that since i have a sinus infection, it might be swollen. so, they HIT the part of my sinuses that is actually infected, and breaks *something* open (see, i told you it was gross)... so i'm bleeding and coughing and expelling grossness through my nose... the nurse is like "oh my god, oh my god" and i'm crying... and the doctor is CHUCKLING (he was like "oh, it doesn't hurt that much" and the nurse told him what happened and he was like "oh, well *cough*". so... they finally fix all that, i'm SO upset and injured that i go to school, go straight to hamm's class room and manage to tell her i'm not going to rehearsal without crying (you have no idea how much that all hurt, and still hurts) and leave. i have to go to school tomorrow to make up pe. and... to be ready to present my photography stuff on friday (panic time, i cannot friggin get anything without dust on it.... and rachel is NO help, she only tells me to try reprinting.. oy, i REALIZE that... and it's not getting the dust off... it's only printing another photo with dust.) *sigh* i'm seriously going to cry. again.

i just fixed the links to include damon's kick ass stuart site... then he went and changed the URL. sheesh. i'm off to fix that.
...
know what i noticed while i was fixing that? the link to damon's site actually went to kyle's site. but, all is well now.

i'm too tired to do catergories.... i bought a bunch of new clothes over the past two days.... woohooo. and i think i'm dying, i'm SO sick. it's awful. ashley never told anyone whether she was sick or not, so like, we all just assume she's not, but now i'm SO sick, and whenever i start really coughing, i cough until i throw up. it's AWFUL. it hurts to look at the computer screen. so i'm going to stop blogging, even though i have SO much to say about yesterday at the mall, and today at the mall and kohls and getting my pictures taken. and going to panera to have a mini birthday party for bethany.

*megan*

i saw ABI's speech piece today (her prose/poetry one at least) and it was GREAT.


i went to the vine with ABI today. she'd never had chicken wings before, so i gave her a lesson in how to eat them.


ABI and i had rehearsal tonight. it was much fun (and yes, i have to be at reheasal tomorrow)


ashley might have whooping cough... if she does i have to go on preventitive antibiotics tomorrow morning. bah.


rehearsal was both scary... and... reassuring. scary in that... the ensemble only has a few good people... and reassuring in that i'm better memorized than i thought.


i'm going to bed. i'm SO tired.


*megan*

i got pulled over on my way home tonight. conversation was as follows:


cop: "have you been drinking?"
me: "oh my, god no!"
cop: "well... *peers at me for a moment* where are you going?!"
me: "home."
cop: "*ponder* so you live down this road?! *gestures to road*"
me "yes"
cop: "where are you coming from?"
me: "west high school"
cop: "*look of AHA!* why were you there SO LATE?!"
me: "i was at rehearsal"
cop: "what for?!"
me: "alice in wonderland"
cop: "may i see your license"
me: "certainly *hands him license*"
cop: "so, who are you?"
me: "excuse me?"
cop: "in alice in wonderland"
me: "oh! alice. i'm alice *nod*"
cop: "*looking at my license* how old are you?"
me: "seventeen"
cop: "and you live down at the end of this road?!"
me: "yes"
cop: "well then... have a nice night."



so... i'm thinking that... he saw me in my indecisive "do i go drop whitney's assignment off? or do i go home?" which involved two lane changes... then, as he was following me on the main street that my road's off of, i wasn't going the speed limit, i was like 15 under, because i turn left onto that street, then like RIGHT away i turn right, so it doesn't make sense to speed up to sixty, then slam on the breaks to turn... THEN... my road is like, leading to nowhere, so i bet he thought i was trying to get rid of him by going out on the random gravel road... but... my goodness it was amusing.



*megan*

wearing: my faaaavorite blue jeans, and my black and pink nightmare before christmas shirt. and shoes (i haven't worn shoes since like... thursday.) and... grey socks... aaand, yeah that's all.


listening: not my rent cd... because a certain nic has it *looks pointedly at certain nic* but i AM listening to bright apocalypse.


quotes: "hey now, who took my water out of the ceiling?!"


"just pretend that song never started... *relaxation voice* when i count to three, all memory of that horrible start will be gone... one... you are forgetting, two... stuart never messes up ... threee.... *starts song again*"


"this is a song... *long pause* for .... everyone who has chakras. *decisive nod*"


"*white lights come on behind stage* you've all just witnessed a miracle!"


thoughts: stuart show tonight. much fun had by all. set list is as follows...

rockstars and models - he didn't really say much... just launched into it... good good. *nod*
dresden - i was flailing around... because that's the order that they go on my tape that's in the car... i'm so used to dresden coming after rockstars and models... then i was like "wait! this isn't my tape! *flail*"
invincible - good song as always... makes me sad still... he played it in context to the goings on around the world...
ladders - talked about it fitting with invincible. i agree.
seven wonders of the soul - i love how randomly rocking this song can be. it rocks my socks.
only echoes - i don't know if i paid more attention to this song than usual... or what, but i LOVE it so much more now than i did before.
barbie - after he finished, he was like "what shall i play next? more filth?" oh, before this song, there was the usual group of people screaming "only changing drugs" stuart politely explained that james taylor has asked him not to perform that song. i was amused.
penguins - *whine* i want this song... to just be available to me... to randomly play... whenever i want.
nothing in between - rob was all marvelling at the guitar stuff he does. i love this song. my faaavorite song. maybe. ... well... maybe.
inventions - this song is growing on me, especially since godmonkey (http://stuart.godmonkey.com) put the lyrics up.
fall awake - one of my earliest stuart memories. its... such a good solid song.
evil white man - he was like "i don't know if i know that song anymore!" but he tried, and succeeded admirably.
uncle seth's false gospel - cool to hear it live. i love "yadda yadda yadda, the lord." it amuses me to think of someone reading... and actually ending like that *nod*
jonah - random kid mystic love going on. but i have no complaints.
kaleidescope - i just love the line 'to a delicate ear, i am a shout.'

then, his cd seller (king?) got up... and stuart was like "where are you goign?!?" and he's like "oh, the wash room" and stuart sang a song about how he was going to be clean, so when he came back would be the best time to kiss him. and some random guy kissed him *nod*

doppelganger - yeeeeah such a purely stuart song.
shades of greys - song i've never heard live. cool cool.
swim
dive
drown - i liked the... do the whole water songs thing all at once. *nod* they fit together so well.
random song i didn't write down. i do know that it wasn't by him though.
psycho killer - YEEEES! i love love love the stuart version of this. he used to almost always finish with it... but... i haven't heard it in a while.
practice dying - i wrote it down as "kid mystic" then, randomly in the middle of ths song, i'm like "GASP... this isn't kid mystic, it's practice dying!" i was so confused.

a VERY long break was taken... but admittedly, it was a veeeery long first set. went and talked to him briefly, asked if he'd be elvis costello for a bit... he sang part of beyond belief for me right there, and i was all merry. we talked a bit about alice in wonderland... and some other random stuff... like how evil my e-mail is.

savoring samsara - this is such a fun song to play loud while driving.
mercy - i really like this song, especially the guitar on it.
stuart becomes elvis... he was looking for his hat, which he'd stuck into the ceiling... and he had this classic "now where the hell did my hat go?!" look... then he suddenly spun around and wa slike "AHA!!" yeah, glasses and all *nod* the snakeskin cowboy hat made him a post modern elvis.
...
beyond belief - wooohoo!
oliver's army - wooohoo!
the other end (of the telescope) - ok, huzzah for little know elvis songs. i nearly fell off my chair (bench) when this song started. i was flailing about all merrily... and everyone was just pretending not to know me. *sob*
atavistic viking - i was so amused... he plays about half of this song with a guitar pick, and half without... like, different parts... yeah. so, he started the last verse with the guitar pick in his mouth... it was highly amusing...
windmill and wheatfields - he paused before this song, and was like "this song is for god!" and the second he played the first note everyone started laughing... it was a classic classic moment.
universe communion - classic stuart. love the guitar, looooove the song.
infinity hymn - i just love this... because the tune that he hums is SO infinity... it's too perfect to believe.
eclipse - yaaay eclipse.
your house - second or third time he's wrapped up with your house. i do like that song though.


so tired. need to work... perhaps write more random rants later... including the random stuart and my mom conversation... very odd.


*megan*

wearing: grey pajama pants and jed's random dark blue and green abercrombie shirt. it's the only long sleeve shirt in existance as far as i can tell, i looked for mine... but they were nowhere to be found.


feeling: i have the worst headache. i think it's because i slept for like 13 hours last night. either that or the fact that allison is playing piano nonstop since i woke up (like an hour ago) i seriously don't understand the appeal of pianos.


on winamp: nothing, because when i turned it on, i got yelled at for distracting allison from her piano playing. she's only playing scales, and not only that, she's playing them wrong to begin with. *sidenote* she stopped playing piano, only to play with this annoying little game thingy that makes really high pitched noises. *sob*


should be: cleaning my room and doing laundry... and memorizing lines... and picking up squishy envelopes for mailing cds... and picking up 80 minute cds. i only need... *pause* three. but... yeah.


thoughts: i went to see monsters inc. with jed last night. it was really good. *nod* then we went to a party to try and find his friend cody, but we didn't find him... i did run into john hawley though... that was kinda cool. talked to quite a few random people... *shrug* left around 11... tried to find tgifridays ... but it took forever, and like, they closed an hour early *Shrug*


i'm going to call hamm pretty soon and see if she needs help with the cyc, and with all the random moving of stuff that has to be done... also, i want to call ellen (i saw her at mr. movies last night, she was renting movies for abby's sleepover thing) because she said that she dyed my dress last night.


i'm going to stop blogging and go take a shower, because all my notes about what i wanted to blog are missing in action. so, if i find them, i'll blog somemore, but i want to take a shower now, and then commence doing laundry. *nod*


*megan*

renata told me that she used a picture of me for a thing in spanish where you have to tell about a relative. we're cousins now *nodnod*.


the test wasn't that bad. but, i was so tired, i fell asleep at lunch on the floor. but aric brought me his pillow, then he darted me... *nod* loooong story.


my mom's home. i bet she's waiting for me to come downstairs and be like "hello mother, how was your day? wonderful? oh, mine's great, i've given up theatre, and am doing lots of math! yay!" but alas... it isn't so.


i have rehearsal in.... an hour.


my feet hurt SO badly... oy. but i bough slippers at old navy, they're really cool.


*megan*