Modern Family and Other Random Musings

Last Wednesday three of the actors from ABC's Modern Family came to Ohio State to have an informal talk (is that what you would call it?) with the students. When I found this out, I freaked out because MF quickly became one of my favorite shows this year. Granted I only started watching with season 2, but it was still funny nonetheless.

ANYWAY.

So Ty Burrell (Phil), Eric Stonestreet (Cam), and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell) came to campus last week for a about a hour and a half Q&A session and to tell stories from the set, the experiences, etc. and stayed about an extra hour or so to take pictures and meet the fans. Boy, were these men hilarious! Each of the guys were very similar to their characters, but there were some differences I noticed. I would say that Ty is a little more reserved than his character and Eric didn't now have Cam's flamboyant ways ("he's gay for pay" as Jesse put it) and Jesse was nowhere near as uptight as Mitchell is. They took turns saying how they got started, how they got the part, and throughout the whole time they were speaking, it felt so surreal to me that they were actually sitting in front of me. (As I watched the episode on Hulu next day, I could not believe that Phil, Cam, and Mitchell were in the same room as me the day before!).

When the student Q&A session started, Andy went up to ask Eric a question. But let me not that before the show, OUAB was handing out fanny packs to some people, and my group was lucky enough snag some and Andy naturally put the fanny pack on. Let me also clarify that during this whole thing, Jesse and Ty were drinking water out of water bottles, but Eric was drinking a mysterious liquid out of a red party cup. So Andy goes walking up, and asks Eric "what's in the cup?" and then Jesse was like "what's in the fanny pack?!" It was funny. But Andy had a legitimate question about winning an Emmy, not any of the frat crap some guy asked Eric. Ugh, some of the questions people asked. Oh well. I did end up asking Jesse when I met him later what it was like to be a famous ginger. Seriously. That's what I asked him that. Dear lord, why am I so embarrassing.

Here are some pictures from that night, but I shoudl warn you that I was sick, so my hair is a mess, I look like death, and have no makeup on. But it's not like that matters or anything!

Ty!

Please ignore me. This is just awkward of everyone.

My ginger :)

 

 

 

It was so great meeting all of them! And the episode that premiered that night was really funny. It was super hard to contain my laughter as I watched it in The Union.

Other musings:

• Today we finally start soccer playoffs. Seriously. It's week 9. How are we supposed to crown a champion by the end of next week? Damn rain.
• The Gold Cup roster was released yesterday. Dear lord. More on that this weekend.
• So I only have one more German 367 class left and I'm kind of sad. I really enjoyed the class; we've had some random/awesome conversations.
• It's rained too much.
• I'm going to Princeton this weekend to visit my mother. It should be fun. It's been a while since I've been out there... 

 Alright, time to get ready for soccer!

New My Morning Jacket.