This idea was stolen from Jeremy, cause I thought it was kinda cool to know where all of his friends came from.
When I was but a wee shy lassie at JF Burns Elementary, I sat next to this awesome girl with beautiful ringlets on my first day of third grade, and I wanted her to be my friend so much. And then she was. And that's how the miracle of seating in alphabetical order made Brigette my first best friend.
I met Douglas the same year in EPAT, where he gave presentations on magic while my projects were all on spontaneous human combustion and frog precipitation. I'm sure they were so glad they decided to enrich the academically talented.
Heather and I lived down the street from each other, and between the two of us and Beth and Lori, it was the closest I've ever come to being in an all-girl gang. We had code names and a secret clubhouse and everything. Of course, our gang names were things like Cloud and Rainbow, and our "clubhouse" contained pictures thereof, but still...Foxfire burns and burns!
Caryn, who I think has made her one and only appearance on myspace, was in my cabin at 4-H camp. That's right, you heard me, 4-H camp. We were every bit as annoyingly cheerful and only about 1/2 as wholesome as you probably think.
Dawn and I shared early morning drives to forensic tournaments and countless tales of woe throughout high school. We also shared a whole lot of laughs at the teacher who wore short skirts and flashed the boys in our journalism and drama classes. Tommy is Dawn's current beau, and a lovely boy brimming with energy.
I've apparently know Ryan for so long that I can't even remember meeting him!
Jeremy (early cuyler) dragged me halfway across a football field 4 or 5 times a week my sophomore year, proving himself to be the only member of the drumline who could carry the weight of both a chick and a bass drum, and I'm sure causing him a temporary backache and a lifelong disdain for method acting.
I met Bobby at one of Caryn's infamous End-of-Summer-Back-to-School-Let's-Get-All-the-Friends-Toget
her-for-One-Last-Bash parties, whereupon we took over the dj-ing responsibilities and growled menacingly at any who dared approach the boombox.
Brent started out being my older sister's dorky friend, and then I ended up with a crush on him sometime in high school.
My dear, sweet, darling Ross was one of the freshman boys I befriended in my senior year and I will be forever grateful to him for never once rolling his eyes when I declared myself to be a goddess.
I moved from one suburban Ohio hell to another suburban Ohio hell (only farther north and colder!) to attend Mount Union College, where I obtained a totally worthless degree in theatre and met Grace and Jason. Grace taught me to kick ass, and Jason taught me to not want to kick so much ass (which is what he does for a living now!)
I lived downstairs from Meta my freshman year. She was my gal pal extraordinaire, and I can only hope we lived up to the legend of the King Hall girls.
Ginny was the best actress in MUC's theatre department, and I haven't seen many to rival her in my post-MUC life. Connecticut Jim provided me with hours upon hours of entertainment and snarky commentary, as we both spent so much time in MUC's green room, awaiting our five minutes on-stage in our bit parts. (We're not bitter!) Dustin played my hubby in the best role I ever had at MUC. Ironically, this role was "Man 3" in The Visit. As his reward, I cast him as one of the gay lovers in Finding the Sun, my incredibly horrid, deliciously awful directorial debut. I wanted to cast Steve in that show too, but he didn't want to. Boo. I still love Steve like nobody's business though. He's the most huggable boy that ever lived.
With Tenacious Dave, I continued my tradition of befriending dear, sweet, darling freshman boys in my senior year of college, and when I declared myself a goddess, he only rolled his eyes a little.
After college, I interned for a year at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, where Todd Almond made a bold yet futile attempt to teach me to sing when we were in a show together. (Not Hedwig, sorry! That was after my time.)
I spent three years at ETC, first as an intern, then as a highly underqualified ATD. After ETC, I went to Spring Green, WI for a summer stock job and then I moved to li'l Rhody, where I apparently made no friends!
Then it was off to Pennsylvania, where I propped for a theatre that Bonnie ASMed for. I see Bonnie about once a year now that she's out on tour. Bonnie introduced me to Michele, who I see even less frequently.
The most recent addition to my extended family is Violet, who married my cousin Kurt. My formerly emaciated cousin is now packing on the pounds thanks to Violet's Italian cooking.
After I got out of theatre, I found a boring job in Human Resources, which left me with a whole lot of free time which I have wasted on the internets becoming a complete web-geek. I've met oodles of good people that way, though. Steph, Jack, Chris and Russ are all folks from the woxy.com message boards.
(If I ever get 44 friends on here, I am going to have so much fun paring down some of these blurbs to two lines and making everything rhyme.)
Oh yeah, and I have a cat. Her name is Halcyon. She's supposed to remind me not to throw myself into a volcano. She doesn't have a myspace page...
