Barrowman talk at Olivier

Barrowman talk at Olivier - John and his sister Carole being interviewed by one of the Loose Women. Nothing we didn't already know, mostly his childhood and family stuff from the book, but animated and adorable - great seeing John interact with Carole, if nothing else. oh, and John hauled out Scott who, er, it turned out was sitting on the end of the row four or so rows below us and I'd been so busy chatting with conjunkie and indiefairy pre-show that I failed to spot him in the audience. I am a bad, bad fangirl obsessive. Considering me and fairyd123 were doing the 'oooo, there's Scott! ooo, lookit, Gavin!' at the Jerry Herman, and the Barrowmanfans row were going 'over there! Scott!' at Friday Night Project and we do this at stage doors, I feel so... so... oh god. I am such a failure when I can't spot my obsession's exceedingly gorgeous hubbie at such close range. :goes to commit fan-girl hara-kiri in shame:

Then queued and chatted with indiefairy and conjunkie and girlie I know from older BtvS/Angel cons. Squeaked when faced by John 'um, Heather, thankyou' whilst probably flushing bright red, and then grinned and was completely normal with Carole - asked her if she had her own fanclub yet, she mentioned the fact that the website she keeps up for her students now has a bunch of new visitors who read her blog - and a bunch of us piped up and went 'it's funny and a good read! And has amusing photos!'. (:sigh: indiefairy and I conferred notes on how certain actors do this. I can chat and giggle with a bunch of sci-fi actors, discuss media political spin with some, Vegas hotel rooms with others, bluetooth stuff, lewd remarks, ask weird and ridiculous questions on mic stands - but some you just completely clam up and go tongue-tied. In this case, I blame John for meeting my eyes. Stage doors, no problem coming up with a quip or going 'John, stop blinking', but... omigod. :wibble: Then stayed on in the foyer to chat fic with indiefairy and conjunkie where we talked good vids, bad vids, vid bunnies, good authors, bad authors, authors who just... don't work, and then talked about the puzzling people like ru_salki99 who started out as kind of shit, and visibly improved each fic in literally the past few weeks (she kept posting interesting summaries, so you tended to click out of curiosity, and she always wrote pretty short so it was only a couple of minutes out of your life) to the point where we were going 'read! you must read this damn fic!' that she posted today. (it's Ianto if he came through the rift from 1953 in Out of Time instead of John. It is... oh, the idea's executed so *well*.)

Hmm. regarding this, I always get surprised when people recognise me in fandom situations - it's got to the point where at Barrowman whatsits I no longer go 'wtf?' when the regulars go 'hi' at them, Cons I never bother about being recognised because I'm sodding well *known* for being the blonde who isn't wearing very much - we did a bit of musing and then all told indiefairy, after doing a bit of 'weird places I have been recognised as a fandom person by another fandom person' (mine is an out of the way train station - admittedly I did trump it by having long blonde hair and having a sword stuck down my back) that actually, there aren't that many blondes at cons as a whole. Far more brunettes and redheads and ex-blondes who hide it with hair dye. Hence why yours truly can actually describe herself as 'the blonde'. But still. Unless it's a specific situation where I'm seeing people for the third or so time, I *always* expect that people will not remember me as anything more than a face in the crowd. And this is from someone who is known for being loud and arrogant in company. Huh. Wonder if it's sidekick mentality or what. :shrugs: Oh well, it's probably healthier and more well-adjusted than not, especially in big crowd contexts and I never expect actors to remember me, unless it's people like Jonathan Woodward or Neil Roberts or others who I've stood all night drinking in bars with. Most remember me *during* the con due to me being question-asking monkey during talks (mostly along the lines of 'thankyou for asking so many questions'), but I sure as hell don't expect them to remember me at the next one.

Nutcracker (aka Matthew Bourne on crack), mooncup

wearing mooncup for first time. Pretty sure it's not in right, as I can feel it every time I move positions. And oh god it was an utterly painful experience trying to remove it earlier to cut the stem - completely tensed, which didn't help -, so, um, just going to leave doing that until I've watched at least one ep of Supernatural. (I have, like 31mb of disk space left) Mind you, am wondering if it's partially due to not being relaxed when inserting it. Is it possible to shove it too far up? (I know you can't lose it) Wondering if I did that due to being used to using tampax entire life.

Nutcracker.

( Sugar rush in fifties-era clothing! )