It's 6 o'clock on a Thursday, and I'm trying to figure out why I'm still at school! I know why, but it doesn't make me feel any better. I should be grading, I should be making parent phone calls; instead, I'm on the internet. This is bad. I need to go home. I need to get sleep. I need to stop thinking about how depressed Longfellow (the poet) makes me. We read in my afterschool class, "Psalm of Life." I was talking about doing something more than slacker things, being inspirational and stuff. And I realize, that I live an uninspirational life. Longfellow advocates stepping away from the stable and the secure to find what makes us happy, but I'm doing stable and secure and I still can't afford to move out of my parents' house. Longfellow obviously didn't live in Southern California during a housing shortage. :-)
Happiness kinda abounds. I went the the William S. Paley Festival and saw both the
Battlestar Galactica and the
House seminars, which was interesting and fun, kinda like a podcast with the whole cast. The Battlestar people were very upfront. When asked how they came to be on the show (by the dorky moderator), most of the stories started out with the phrase, "Well I sat down to read the script with a big bottle of wine..." Jamie Bamber responded, (paraphrased) "Well, I had just gotten my then girlfriend--now wife-- pregnant and decided I needed something to pay the medical bills." Okay, not really, but close. :-) But I think that I agree with my friend
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mckennitt that the only thing I was uncomfortable about being at the festival... was being a fan. For Battlestar it wasn't so bad, most of the audience questions were about creation and production and really just...intelligent questions that you wish you could ask, but don't.
Cool Factor: Kevin Smith (from
Dogma,
Clerks,
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and
Chasing Amy) sat two seats in front of us, which is cool, 'cause, hey, someone who does write such sophisicated and brillant dialogue likes BSG! (I mean all dialog besides "Jay's" lines)
The
House cast was hilarious. They were amusing and energetic, and incrediably tired. They had just come from shooting the show, which means they were late and they didn't pause for the pictures out front like BSG people did, and I felt kinda guilty that I had paid to make them come talk about the show. Especially when the "Trekkie" type fans got the microphone handed to them. Like the cast is suppose to know what to say to a person with Vasculitis that wants to thank them for bring awareness to the disease. (I watch the show pretty religiously and I couldn't tell you what Vasulitous is.) So anyway, I enjoyed myself immensely, as long as I didn't have to hear the fans speak. (Way too much stuff like seen on bad internet chat groups.) Things like "I'd love to see more of Hugh Laurie's biceps please." Things that make me cringe when reading Livejournals. :-P
In this case, Sci-fi fans ruled in behavior and intelligence. I should have known....afterall,
House is on Fox.
Ali- headed home now from RHS.
awake
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amused
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