ten things? seven, maybe . . .

[chelseagirl]

The meme that's been sweeping LJ - and impressing me with the many unique things my Flist has done. I'm not sure I've got a full ten, but here are ten things I've done that at least you might well not have:

1. Wore a wedding dress that didn't hide my tattoo.

2. Was publicly approved of by Harlan Ellison. (I wasn't there, but apparently he announced to an entire Barnes & Noble autograph line that my husband got a good one.)

3. Was told by a former Buffy writer I was on a panel with that my take on an episode he wrote (The Zeppo) was dead on. (At the time, I'd been pretty much told I was wrong by a whole list, so this made me very happy.)

4. Met my husband when he heckled the same panel.

5. My father married me. (Uh, he's a Lutheran minister. He performed the ceremony.)

6. The wedding was mentioned in The Onion. One of those "see inside" things that has no text inside. (But we have the writer's assurances it was us!)

7. The band that played at our reception was not only not a "wedding band" but was a band I go see play in clubs, and own CDs by.

8. Learned to drive on a car with a V-8 engine. Vroom.

9. Read all of Proust twice, though not in French. (This is the one I fully expect to find out half of you have done!)

10. There is no 10.

It's sad how many of these have to do with the wedding. I mean, I was never one of those "Dream Day" kinda gals. Maybe that's why so many of the things are a bit on the unusual side.

Comments

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

No Proust or Buffy panels, but my wedding dress didn't quite cover one of my tattoos, and it definitely wouldn't cover the newest one... too bad I'm not getting married again!

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Substitute an appropriately stuffy formal event, then!

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Did M heckle you?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Yup, he and John Krewson were giving us a hard time because my co-panelist was an ex-Onion guy and one of John's best friends. Heckling in a fun way, and it's definitely when I noticed Martin!

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

I was there for two of those 9 things.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

You certainly were. Just think, if you could have made the wedding, you would have had almost a complete sweep. :-)

[silme.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Proust twice, but I learned to drive on a car with a V8 engine. It comes from being an American teenager in that time period. ;)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, but much of my Flist learned to drive in, shall we say, subsequent years. :-) Even back then, our "good" car was a V6; this was an old car of my grandmother's that my mom ended up with.

I still miss it, sometimes. Vroom.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Hey, we didn't have a car; I learned on the driving instructor's Oldsmobile.

My first car was a V8, though.

[batdina.livejournal.com]

read proust twice, check. learned to drive in car with V8, check.

and while my father is not a minister, my sister has asked me, the almost rabbi to marry her. it's very cool.

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

Hi, I surfed in from your comment in insidian's lj. May I ask what your dead-on tape of The Zeppo is? It's one of my favorite Buffy episodes and you've made me terribly curious!

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, once upon a time I referred to The Zeppo as being "from Xander's POV". Someone took my head off for misusing the film term "POV" (uh, sorry, I teach literature, not film) and then the list proceeded to list all the scenes that weren't from Xander's point of view. Instead of opening up discussion of the ep., as I'd hoped, I was informed that I was flat out wrong, no discussion, no subtle distinctions. Ouch!

So years later when I got to ask Dan Webber, it turns out that the episode was written ENTIRELY from Xander's point of view and that the scenes where he wasn't present were added during filming and revisions, and that even in those scenes the characters were behaving as Xander would imagine them to behave, not as they ordinarily would. (cf. Willow's "sometimes I am strange and offputting" speech)

Made me feel ever so much better.

He also had info about how Dru was originally supposed to come back with Spike in that s. 3 episode, but Juliet Landau was unavailable. He couldn't remember much about the original script though. Alas.