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[taerowyn]

Ryan came by tonight to pick up some shit he'd left here in the shared-truck/move confusion and we just sat and chatted for awhile. Outside of Stu, he's probably the person I'm closest to in the program.

Makes me ponder my guy-friend tendencies. I've got two really close girl friends, but other than that, I seem to always be closer to guys than to girls. In high school I had three really close friends...two guys and one girl. College was one guy, one girl. Grad school, like I said, has been Ryan and Stu. Of course, it hasn't helped that this summer my only firends in town were the guys so naturally we got closer, but still, it's a trend in my friendships.

The thing is, I don't know why it is. I don't even know if there has to be a why or if it just is. Just random taerowyn-thoughts on a Friday night.

Totally off-topic, but I am so psyched for tomorrow. I get to see Neil Gaiman AND Terry Pratchett tomorrow. How cool is that? I'm definitely anticipating seeing the both of them speak, but I'm still up in the air on the whole "signing" thing. Do I really need one or both of them to sign a book? I just don't see what the big appeal is... Can somebody maybe explain it to me seeing as I have the chance tomorrow? Maybe if someobody can make me understand, I'll actually go through the effort of getting a book or two signed.

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[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Totally off-topic, but I am so psyched for tomorrow. I get to see Neil Gaiman AND Terry Pratchett tomorrow. How cool is that? I'm definitely anticipating seeing the both of them speak, but I'm still up in the air on the whole "signing" thing. Do I really need one or both of them to sign a book? I just don't see what the big appeal is... Can somebody maybe explain it to me seeing as I have the chance tomorrow? Maybe if someobody can make me understand, I'll actually go through the effort of getting a book or two signed.

It is not the signature. Fuck the signature.

It's getting to talk to them face-to-face for thirty seconds, tell them how cool they are, have them thank you, tell them something you like about their work and they tell you something about it that you may not have known or perhaps you did but it's so much better to hear it confirmed from their mouth.

The signature is just there to remind you that you met someone who's creations you really like. The signature, in and of itself, is just a scribble. The memory isn't.

-- Schwa ---

And sometimes you meet someone and they turn out to be a total asshole. Ha ha!

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

I guess I can see that, but I think just seeing them speak (I'm going to a reading by Gaiman, Pratchett's Guest of Honor speech and then watching Gaiman host the Hugo's) will be cool enough. Besides, I can't even begin to think what I would say...

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter. You may kick yourself years down the line. Do it! If you say something stupid, they won't remember three days later anyways.

-- Schwa ---

Unless it's really stupid. Ha ha!

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Pratchett I'll do cause I'm going to see him again on Tuesday and I'll do it then. Gaiman, it depends. His reading, followed by the signing, is at 10 and Pratchett's speech is at 11 so it depends on the time crunch.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

So how did it go?

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

It was good. Didn't end up doing any signings... Neil's was during Terry's talk and Terry's was during one of Neil's [crappy Con planners. :o( ] I'll write something soon...just caught up in first week of school schtuff.