Back in the saddle
But the brain hasn't arrived yet. Still waiting on the delivery. Post-vacation brain is a nightmare sometimes!
So, just a few tidbits. I am certainly glad Kristen and I went to California last week and not this. We enjoyed days in the low 80s. My brother is now "enjoying" the heat wave in the high 90s and low 100s. This seems normal in Texas, but it would have been horrible walking around Disneyland and other places in that.
I did find out I made it through the first round of judging in a flash fiction contest I entered last month. Not sure where that puts me as far as the total numbers of entrants go, but I was nonetheless ecstatic. Crossing my fingers I'll at least be a finalist/honorable mention! The guest judge is an agent from an agency at the top of my wish list, so if I rank high, that will be a plus for querying--which I hope I'm ready for by late summer. I've set August 1st September 1 as my goal, but that might be optimistic. (Edit: I forgot August was vacation month in publishing land.)
On a funny note, we saw LeeLee Sobieski (Joan of Arc, Eyes Wide Shut, The Glass House, Never Been Kissed, 88 Minutes) while checking in at LAX last week. I'm assuming she was on her way back to Chicago where she's filming Public Enemies with Johnny Depp. (Johnny Depp!!) The guy with the big camera on the other side of the cordon didn't phase me while we were waiting to go through security. I was too busy watching this tiny dog wandering around on the conveyor belt while waiting for its owner to go through. Then I was too busy waiting for my daughter to re-emerge from a stall in the restroom to recognize the pretty girl with the huge smile and quick laugh emerge from the one next to her right before I went in. Yes, stars do pee, apparently. (And dare I say, I thought it was kind of funny the other night when I realized I went in right after her? Ok, never mind. Forget I said that.)
So, I realized who she was just after she walked out. I pointed her out to my daughter as we passed the gate for the Chicago flight and said, "That's LeeLee Sobieski, an actress," and my daughter said, "Oh, that's the lady whose dog kept wandering around under my feet while I was in the potty."
HAHAHA!!! That explains the big smile and little laugh. I just thought she was really friendly. I also wondered if she thought I was stalking her while I stood outside the stall for ten minutes waiting on Kristen. Alas, it was just a harried mom who was a little slow on the uptake. And to think of all the other times I had my camera in hand the preceding eight days. Naw, I would have left her alone in the potty.
Anyway, it was kind of interesting to see that she was acually much prettier in real life than in photos and on the screen. I think sometimes it's the opposite.
Still just working on revisions. Have passed my story to reader number 2, and hope to widen that circle soon.
posted by Julie Kibler @ 5:19 PM
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LOL on the celebrity stalking, uh, I mean sighting. LAX is a great place for that. And I agree - some people just have this amazing star quality and they're even more gorgeous in person. We saw this one woman at Spago's in Vegas and everybody was taking her picture and even though we couldn't identify her, she was so gorgeous and was getting so much attention, you knew she was somebody. :)
Glad you had such a nice time - great timing is right.
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Haha, Kathy! Funny, I'm not much of a groupie or fangirl (except for that one musician ... I won't go into details here), but I have told the story enough times since I got home and searched on the internet for pics of the filming in Chicago that you'd *think* I was. Something about seeing someone up close like that is just fun. We saw Hulk Hogan at a restaurant on a previous trip. But why oh why can't I see someone like Matthew McOnaughey??!!! That's what I want to know.
Pamela, I will be in touch for sure! Thanks
Ooooh, I forgot my brush (literally) in the elevator in Cheyenne with Ty Pennington. That's by far the closest I've gotten to a celeb, though at first I thought nah, why would Ty Pennington be in a hotel in Cheyenne Wyoming. I watched him go out the door and around the corner and was pretty sure, but not certain until I did a little checking and found out they were doing an Extreme Makeover house there. We did drive out to try to see the location (not even a huge fan, but I have friends who would die if they saw him), but we could not get close. Still it was kinda cool. He's tall, but not as tall as he looks on TV (maybe 6 feet, no more, maybe less), lean, and has really ruddy complexion. From being outdoors a lot I guess. Only saw the side of his face and then his back though.
It's always a little surreal to see a celebrity anywhere. Scott and I saw Chris Cooper (Forrest Gump, American Beauty, Breech, etc. etc.) at the airport in Minneapolis and I tried to get Scott to follow him into the men's room to see if it was really him and of course he wouldn't!
But we casually hung out on a bench and noted that it really was him when he came out. We were cool -- we did not approach.
We also sat at the next table over from Jon Lovitz, his mother, sister and niece (we think) in a restaurant in Sausalito. We tried to be cool, but we shamelessly eavesdropped and giggled the whole time.
I also saw the actor who plays Phyllis in "The Office" at LaGuardia last May. We made eye contact and as soon as she smiled at me I ran over like the huge goober that I am and got all goofy and told her how funny I think she and the show are. Somehow, a TV person doesn't seem as intimidating as a "movie star".
I'm such a dufus!
I sold Don Henley (of the Eagles) a hammer in Aspen. (I worked at a hardware store there one time, many years ago.)
I didn't follow him into the bathroom, however.
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