Born in sunny Surrey BC in the summer of '78, my parents named me Meghan. Actually they called me Kendra first because this neighbour lady had a baby just before I was born and named HER Megan (no h), knowing full-well that was my mom's first girl name choice. My mom was crushed. She didn't want to "copy." So I began my life as Kendra Meghan. All the cards say "Welcome Kendra." It didn't last long. She was set on Meghan (with H) so she changed it back before all the paperwork stuff was settled. I guess I was just destined to be Meg. I hated my name growing up. I didn't think it was... pretty enough, and as I got older I didn't think it was sexy enough. I wanted to be a Samantha, or a Kelly, or a Shayna, or a KENDRA... but not a Meghan. Then somewhere along the way it kind of grew on me. My closest friends call me Megs, A few drop the S though, and to them I'm just Meg. H'okay, I think you get the picture, my name's Meghan!
So my parents pulled me out of Surrey at the age of 3, before any of the stereotypical Surrey girl characteristics were able to manifest. And I spent the next 20 years in the little island town of Scrambled Liver. My 17th year was spent in Ishikari, Hokkaido Japan where I went to high school and was a total rock star. It's no lie, I sang some songs at the school festival and all the boys wanted to date me, most of their "girlfriends" didn't like me, and all the other girls just wanted to be my friend. I don't think I've had more attention in my entire life than I had in that one year. Yup, I was a rock star!
After graduating high school in 1997, I spent 4 years doing a helluva lot of nothing in CR. Mostly drinking and driving around (not while drinking of course). Sometimes mountain biking on some of the great trails up there. Miss that.
And that brings me to the big Capital City where I'm finishing my Biochemistry degree on my way to becoming a mad scientist... curing cancer, battling viruses, or just making drugs. :P
