Meg's Journal

1:19pm: So, I'm in Ottawa. Which is semi-good because I can see my family, my pets, some friends and make some money. But at the same time I would much, MUCH rather be home, in that crusty house with my girls, hanging out on Collingwood, going to Rez Express and laughing about lava life and wookies. This semester has been at once the craziest of my life: I haven't slept in a month, I've hardly even been at home and its been hard getting used to be completely responsible for myself, but at the same time, the best I have ever had: I live with the greatest people who make me laugh, I've experienced things I never would have thought of, I love all the new people I've met and I really feel like I'm growing up while at the same time still being a kid. Everyone there wants to go home and I'm counting down the days until I get to go back..
On the plus side, I had a good day yesterday. Work was pretty fun and I came home and had a relaxing evening and slept in until 1. Sweet deal. Here's hoping Super Pet makes me good money in the next couple weeks and that I get my damn bursary.. oh Queen's be nice to me! Money is so not a friend of mine right now, and yet I have to start Christmas shopping. Oh student life.. Lots of love to everyone and if you're in Ottawa, you better hang out with me I miss you! Dur you're first on the list-get unbusy! :)

10:42pm: Oh My God. This is like an emotional roller coaster. My parents now aren't sure about the couple for lord knows what reasons.. so if anyone is still interested let me know. grrr.

5:35pm: Ben-Dog now has a friend-dog! (oh heather, you are the only one who will appreciate that..)
Everyone: Thank you SO much, Ben has a home! My mom's networking put her in contact with a retired couple who look after pets when people go on vacations and they will look after Ben for the year and give him back! And they said that I can visit him whenever I want while I'm still home. This takes so much off my chest you have no idea. Thanks again for replying, it meant a lot. Hope everyone has a good night!

11:34am: Hey guys!
I have a dilemma and I'm hoping that by throwing this out there I might get some type of feedback. My family is moving to Australia in January for a year and we have a 3 year old Black Lab mix dog named Ben who we haven't found anyone to look after. He's really well behaved and very friendly and gets along with other dogs and kids. Ideally we'd like to have him back after the year but we realise that's difficult so if need be we'd just like to find him a home. Please if you or anyone you is interested let me know as soon as possible, I don't want to see him going to the Humane Society. I attached a picture so you can see how handsome my puppy is...
PLEASE PLEASE throw this out to people you think might be interested, I'd really appreciate it. You can email me at ele_f_ant@hotmail.com to reach me more directly or post a comment here.
Thanks so much!

1:48pm: OK. I know I haven't posted in a bout.. a million years. However you people are very creative and if anyone reads this and responds with something fantastic I will love you forever. I am going to a big Hallowe'en party tomorrow and I still don't have a costume. I am fresh out of good ideas, everything I come up with is a lame pun that makes me cringe. Does anyone have any ideas, I think I'm sickening the people I talk to with annoying questions about it. I have a very small budget as well. I need you!!!!!!!!!!! please...?

1:20am: 19 finally. Feeling pretty old. And tired. Have to be up at 7:30am which blows, but tomorrow night should be a blast!
Missing everyone...

11:16pm: This weekend my parents were away in Toronto, so despite working SO many hours I got the chance to fiesta with a few friends. Many good times were had!
( First picture post ever-BE PROUD! )
So tired.. More painting tomorrow- F-JOB!!!!!!!!

5:40pm: Today I had my second partial day off of the week. It is only tuesday. This is great for my brain but bad for my bank account. oh well.
I spent yesterday buying some things for my room in Kingston including a sweet comforter set, lamp and wooshy mirror. Beyond that I've scrapbooked and watched tv.
The owners of the house heather and I were painting today weren't home so we definitely watched Jeapordy, a Makeover story and part of the Nightmare Before Christmas before going home due to rain. I don't have much else to say because my life is SO exciting. So for any of you who are extremely bored: stolen from davriel and barcodegurl- (keep in mind that I still have no idea how to do any formatting on this thing. Go Meg.)

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Run a Google image search on that word.
3. Reply to this entry & post one of the pictures from your search, but don't tell me what the word was.
4. Put this in your journal, so I can do the same.

8:46am: Summer 2006- Australia here I come!
So it's official. We got an email yesterday saying that my mom has been approved for exchange in Australia by her exchange partner. My dad is in shock, my mom is beaming, my brother is being non-commital as per usual, and they will be residing in Wodonga, Australia starting Janurary next year. This means that I will be pretty lonely for four months before hopping on a plane, visiting Hong Kong and continuing on to Australia for at least four months. EXCITING OR WHAT?! I know you're all thrilled. I can't wait........ Anyone is invited to come visit. I'll be there in the winter though which kind of sucks.. but I am willing to make sacrifices.
On another note this is the third day it has rained this week. My bank account is groaning with hunger and I realised that I still owe a lot more money to my line of credit than I thought. And this is why I am never getting a credit card....
I have no plans for my day off. Perhaps some cleaning, scrapbooking and looking for Heather's present? I have to be at Denny's at 5. Boo. Hope everyone is having a good day (provided you are not still sleeping...)

12:11pm: Sweet weekend of having the house to myself is almost over. As much as I love my family, I can't wait to get back to Kingston and be on my own again. It's going to be such a great year...

I've spent most of my morning rotating between cleaning up the remnants of mine and G's daiquiri fiesta. I think I have an addiction.. mmm.. strawberry. I also spent a bunch of time on the internet researching phone stuff which ended up leading me to a website about student travel. Odd, but pretty sweet. Adam thinks I'm crazy with all my excessive planning, but I really want to go on this trip (to St. Croix) this summer so I'm really anxious to get plans set. JAMIE, ALEX and ADAM (and Kayla of course although she won't read this..), I'm going to go to a travel place I found online this week to get some info, can we please get together to figure things out soon? I know I'm a nut, but just think of the sun........ and the water.. and no work.... I'm getting desperate to get out of here!

Anyways, I'm going to make the deathly sunday bus ride out to Bayshore soon to get a cell phone soon. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

9:59pm: So, tomorrow is a day off from underpaid painting. sweet. If only my manager had called me to inform me instead of me having to call him and then call the other two people to inform them. Responsible? hmm.
Tonight we celebrated my dad's birthday which involved seeing Monster-In-Law (better than expected but not as entertaining as watching my parents laughing at it), a delicious but beyond filling dinner of ribs and chocolate cake at Baton Rouge and a prolonged somewhat argumentative discussion about religion. Interesting. Baton Rouge depressed me because 3 people thought I was young. I know I'm not 19, but I'm 3 months away and the bartender was giving out free drinks and passed over me with a chuckle saying not for you!, one of our servers was almost shocked that I'd be old enough to be interested in a job there and our other server almost went into shock when I said I was going into second year of university. This depresses me but I guess therte's nothing I can do about it.. I'll just be ID-ed for life.
I had a great afternoon with Adam, we pretty much did nothing, but those are the days when I think most about how happy he makes me and how I could just do nothing with him for the rest of my life.. and on 3.. awwwwwwwwww.
I am going to roll myself upstairs to plant my ass in front of the tv. excellent. Hope everyone had/is having a great May 24... adios!

10:02am: sap sap sap sap....
Done first year as of wednesday, I can't believe it. I almost want it to start all over again..but not quite. This has been one of the best years of my life, high up there on the list. I can't believe how many friends I've made and how much I've learnt from living on my own. That and I've learnt a lot about myself.....
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd call Kingston my home. I miss it all already and I've been home for two days. But at the same time there are some things here I can't live without (namely Adam, although he's definitely not a thing..) I'm going to be missing someone no matter where I am for the next 3 years of my life. Not a very comforting thought but I think I can live with it...

10:54pm: This summer=death. and so much money.
I'm painting this summer, which I know will be hard work but I'm looking forward to it. This is a full-time job that will offer me as many hours as I want. Alas, my mom thinks I will not gain anything useful from it and took me to drop off resumes yesterday at restaurants. I am now working a part-time job hostessing at Denny's as well as painting 5 days a week. this means, 7 days a week of work for megan. this means, i am working on the day i am supposed to be moving into my house. this pretty much takes away the benefits I was excited about from painting-ie. evenings and weekends pretty much guaranteed free and easy to get time off. however, i will get restaurant experience which is good. and rent money-which is better. i will also get death and no social time this summer. whee!
I have hardly started studying for exams. I made myself a schedule and I am already 2 days behind. Oh Megan, why do you work better under pressure/cause yourself stress.
so tired. little bit of sociology, then sleep time. i miss all my queen's girls already, I miss Moof already, i miss kingston already. this is going to be a hard summer. but good too. im blithering.
goodnight moon.

10:50am: So here I am skipping class once again. I'm starting to get worried about really doing poorly in a couple classes, not because I can't do it, but because I am a lazy ass and couldn't get myself out of bed for a 10:30 class! AGH! I would say I'll change my ways, except there's only one week of school left. useless.
So I will profit from this time to write in livejournal.. sweet.
I had our first rehearsal at the actual theatre last night. It was a lot of fun. I think I've finally figured out how to play this girl (not that she should have been that difficult) but they said I was on fire last night.. :)
I can't beilieve this year is almost over. As much as I love home, I am going to miss this place like nobody's business. What are the chances that I'm going to see any of the girls at all this summer? I should make a trip up to Toronto. But Tania.. :( Unfortunately I can't just hop in the car and go to Hong Kong. Boo. Now I just need to find a summer job so I can afford to live in the house with them next year...
Any offers?

1:28pm: apologies for all the spelling glitches.. I hate that but I'm too lazy to fix it....

1:15pm: Oh my god.. Megan is updating. NOTE: sorry for the super long entry, I don't really remember how to do a cut, and I want to torture you.
I have had an awesome weekend. SO relaxing, I love home. All of you who live in Ottawa, appreciate it now.
Anyways, I took Tania (a friend of mine who lives in Hong Kong but goes to Queen's) home with me for Easter to stuff her with food and chocolate. Thursday we watched Van Wilder with Adam and my brother. Friday was a great time, we went to my Aunt's house for dinner with 18 people! My grandfather got sufficiently intoxicated and had a secret chat with Tania about him paying for me to go to Hong Kong possibly next year (WHOO), and I had the longest and best talk I've had with him possibly ever. It was good. And so was PIE. oh man, I was craving it.
Yesterday we met up with another friend from Queen's and went to China Town for my first REAL chinese food. I had Yeung Chow fried rice. SO good. oh baby. Then we met up with Georgia, Dur and Sara downtown where I went nuts with job hunting. Handed out 13 resumes. whew! We also met up with Enoch which was nice. I amost pierced my tongue webbing, until I figured out that the piercing was 75 bucks. OUCH. and that was that.
Last night we went to the casino (we being Patricia, Tania, Rachel, Rachel's boyfriend Kevin and I), and despite the fact that I didn't really win anything it was fun. Pat won 40 bux off blackjack. sweet! I cam out with 5 dollars out of my 10, a pack of official but used poker cards and some sweet mardi gras beads. Definitly worth it. And it was nice to see Rachel again after so long.
Today we had awesome breakfast and easter egg hunt <3. Now I am supposed to be studying for my spanish test, but I have not as of yet. ugh. At least Tania has also done some procrastinating. I did laundry, that's an accomplishemtn in itself.
I have to go back tonight, I have rehearsal at 8. Which reminds me, MY SHOW GOES UP NEXT WEEKEND (MARCH31-APRIL 3) AND I WOULD LOVE WHOEVER CAN TO COME SEE IT. IT'S FUUUUN....
enough shameless plugging. I can't believe I won't Georgia until tomorrow. I think I've become a little too co-dependent. ah well.. Hope everyone had a good weekend!!!

4:39pm: Last night=so much fun. We went to the Morris Hall semi and danced like we've never danced before. Also tried tequila for the first time, so hott. It was really great to be able to spend some time with all (minus Ash) my girls. I don't know what I would do without them. Thank you smelly, disgustingly warm Morris for bringing us together.. aw...
On another note, I am feeling very.. displeased with myself today. I finally got myself into a show, and I LOVE it, but I can't seem to get my act together. I get to rehearsal and I convert to shell-hiding mode. I don't think I said one thing today that wasn't directly related to my lines. I am NOT like this. This thing goes up in 3 weeks and I have yet to even be able to say one of my monologues in front of everyone without turning fluorescent. I REALLY have to work on this. I feel like I haven't had a decent sized role in so long that I'm out of the groove. I made myself excuses about being intimidated during Gnu Ground, and this atmosphere is so much more comfortable and I can't get it together. They keep saying how we're all so much like our characters, and I play a quiet, shy girl who has to learn how to speak her mind and wears pastel sweater sets. SAY WHAT? I love her but I am NOT this girl. My goal for tuesday: break down the shell, laugh some more, have lines memorized and stop turning bright red when anyone looks at me.

11:37am: Here I am in my mom's grade 1 classroom, wishing I was 6 again. These kids, albeit very hyperactive, are really ahppy, and for the most part, their biggest worry is learning how to read and making sure that someone else doesn't butt them in line. Maybe I will become a teacher after all.

11:09pm: You just a jumped up hussy!
I dedicate this entry to my dear Emma and her peanut butter and (almost) honey sandwich which I have since named Peter.
I am having SO much fun with Gnu Ground. I am so happy to be totally involved in a show again. Too bad it ends in t-minus 3 days. It's been good though. And I got a sweet shirt out of the deal.
My parents are coming up tomorrow. This means not only time with them, but also the third dinner I've had out in three weeks. I feel spoiled.
I think my marks are dying, and I want to kick versimilitude and genre as process in the ass.
Although tired and stressed, I am mildly content and very in love. Ghave a Goooooood Eeevening.

4:19pm: Wow.. Long time no post.
So my parents have physically started the application to go on exchange to Australia next year. Meaning that even if I don't do my exchange there, I'll at least spend summer 2006 on the beach.. with kangaroos. That is if they get accepted of course. They need to find someone willing to go to ye olde Ottawa from Australia. I am SO proud of my mom, I can't believe she's actually doing this after dreaming about it for so long..
I had my first meeting for Gnu Ground yesterday (it's a theatre festival kind of like One Acts but all the shows are student written.) I'll be co-directing Sarah Kriger's Show "Studio Audience" and I'm really excited. I love the script and I can't believe I'm actually getting to direct something in first year. Now all you Merivale kids are obligated on two accounts (mine and Sarah's) to come and see it.
I'll be back home on the 11th and time permitting I'll be going to the Merivale musical. It'll be so strange going back there. And seeing a show that I'm not involved in. As much as I love Queen's I still miss that stage and that foul smelling but wonderful drama room... And I even miss Mr. Mo.. I know, I know.
Heather is coming this weekend!!!!!!!! So excited!!!!!!!!!!
Now however I have an assignment to write and a test tomorrow so this long delayed post will have to kept short. I miss everyone....

8:02pm: oh boy. now that was an interesting weekend. Adam came to visit, we went to the Kingston penitentiary museum and had a nice time. There's nothing more romantic than looking at inmate disciplinary torture devices. mmm, so sexy. We also went to a kegger friday night, my first since I've been here, and quite possibly my last, at least for a while. I spent ten dollars to have two not so nice beers (which I had to fight for), have a friend of mine who was draping herself all over boys have a laughing/crying fit all over me, wipe beer up with my sweater and along with adam, help another friend vomit and get back home fairly safely. At which point I forgot Geogia had the keys to the room and we sat outside the door making sure our somewhat unconcious friend did okay. Couldn't have asked for more. Kingston is a really nice town though, and I am supremely enjoying my time here despite the worries that come along with it (whether my friends back home have forgotten I exist, whether my friends here actually like me, whether or not I'm going to fail my classes, whether I'm paying my bills, whether I have all my books, whether I lock my door when I leave, whether my pets will remember me, whether my friends know how much I care about them and want to help but just don't know what to do sometimes.) It still feels strange here but it's home. Everyone needs to come and visit, you know you want to see the fort! DO IT, DO IT!
I need to get a device that will electrocute me when I start to procrastinate. Like now.
I love you! yes you!

12:46pm: Ugh. Frosh flu is the bane of my existence. I hate being sick. I hope this clears up a little today, I don't to be snotting myself in classes. I miss everyone SO much, and can't wait to come home for Thanksgiving. I'm still having a great time, but its taking a lot of adjustment. The summer camp feel is sort of over now, and I'm realising that I'm actually going to have to start growing up. I just want to be a kid forever.
Time to get some reading done.. that was an exciting entry.. i send my love... :(

12:47am: All I have to say is-WOW. I am the most awesome time of my life. Granted I miss the boy and even my family a little but everyone here is incredible. I somehow ended up living on the best floor ever. Everyone is getting along really well. I'm made some awesome friends already and found people in some of my classes. I am loving Queens. Plus I can cing the oil thigh like nobody's business (with a few mistakes)
Tonight we had a much video dance party and I danced my ass off (literally).
I hope everyone is having a great time at school or whatever you're doing. I love you and miss you. Especially chico. :)

12:11am: AND I'm done at Super Pet/Tristan & America forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOT!

12:05am: Today=awesome. I had such a good time. Heather, G and her parents and I all went to the States for the day to take care of some clothes shopping! First we stopped at the Ponderosa Steak House for incredible buffet and then off to TJ MAXX and a little mall. I ended up buying a pair of jeans, two shirts (one of which makes me feel like Emily Strange), a necklace, socks, a Roxy sweatshirt, and a cute green striped belt. They were all pretty good deals too. And everyone found stuff they loved which was great.
Georgia's also going to lend me this really nice dress that she bought in France to wear to the semi-formal at school on friday. Oh no! I'm running out of time to learn out Gaelic (sp?) chant!!! The engineers are going to beat me up...
Tomorrow's my BBQ which I can't wait for. It'll be nice to see everyone before I leave. People better show up or I'm throwing a fit!
Time for sleep meaning that I have to take these awesome jeans off.. boourns. Goodnight!