Senior English Major Moira Moody is taking the road less traveled and is foregoing Cancun to lead a community service spring break trip to Arizona. This Kelly Writers House staple likes her spring breaks alt and her men sensitive.
Street: Tell us about your spring break project.
Moira Moody: I am going to Navajo County in Arizona through the Alternate Spring Break program with some other students to work with children on an Indian Reservation, and of course we're giving ATV safety demonstrations.
Street: How did you get involved in alternate spring breaks?
MM: After spending most of the year in the Penn bubble, I was looking for something meaningful to do with different people over spring break.
Street: Describe your best spring break trip of the past four years?
MM: My sophomore year on ASB I went to Rhode Island, served food for old people, made clay pots with young people, worked at a food bank and met some great Penn people that I still see around.
Street: What's your greatest dream (interpret this as you want)?
MM: When I retire and have nothing to lose I really want to break into acting, have my own traveling variety show where I go from nursing home to nursing home spreading love, hair dye and bingo.
Street: Who's your hero?
MM: Charlie Brown.
Street: Do you consider yourself a hero (haha)?
MM: Only when I finish the sudoku.
Street: If you could go on a date with any character of fiction (heroic or otherwise), who would it be and why?
MM: Eeyore. I appreciate a dude who acts how he feels.
Street: What annoys you the most?
MM: When I cut an English muffin and there are no nooks and crannies.
Street: Is your father named Mad-Eye (Harry Potter inside joke)? Do you get that a lot? Are we weird?
MM: No, it's Dr. Moody and he teaches a class called "Philosophy of Death." Yes, I do get that from time to time, so no, you're not that weird.
Street: What's your favorite publication?
MM: The now-out-of-print Philadelphia Independent. Look it up.
Street: If we had asked you to participate in Penn's Next Top Model, would you have done it? Why or why not?
MM: No, I have cosmetic anxiety issues that date from my friend chasing me around with a hairbrush in the fifth grade cafeteria.
Street: Would you rather be stuck on a desert island with a flawed Rubik's Cube or a Celine Dion CD?
MM: Maybe just the single "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic and some acid.
Street: Would you rather have a soundtrack or a narrator?
MM: Soundtrack, I write my own stories.
