#bookwormbreakfast

[klainelynch]

GODDAMN IT KIM I THOUGHT THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF THE STAR TREK CAST I COULD SCROLL THROUGH MY DASH WITHOUT LUSTING OVER AND YOUR KARL URBAN PHOTOSET HAS RUINED THOSE HOPES

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bookwormbreakfast replied to your post: a;lkmo;iae how do you dooooo thiiiisss i don’t...

I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THIS POST BUT I’M GOING TO NEED YOU TO TEXT ME IMMEDIATELY TO FILL ME IN

I'm just going to lunch with some guy and I'm stressed about it. I just needed to vent.

[klainelynch]

bookwormbreakfast replied to your post: Lindsay texted me about the new Doctor! I’d heard...

Thank goodness! I tweeted about him and then remembered you used to get my tweets to your phone and panicked because I remembered you didn’t want to be spoiled!

I definitely wanted the opposite- I needed to know asap! So no worries :)

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KATHLEEN AND DANIEL!!!!

I miss mock trial. Like woah. Other than noting that I've read all of the tab sums so far and am realizing that so many top tier teams (Miami of Ohio, Princeton, THE REIGNING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS Duke) aren't going and teams I've never even heard of are progressing, which will make this the craziest NCt run yet...that is all.

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Could you talk more about why you're skeptical of Teach for America? I'm at the age where a number of my friends are thinking about applying for it and I'd love to be able to send them your concerns. I know your thoughts would be especially welcome since you're an educator and that's what some of my friends are planning on doing long-term. Thanks so much! I very much enjoy your blog :)

There are a thousand sources that are more eloquent at laying out their case against the program than I am. While I think many of the people who are accepted into the TFA program are wonderful and have the best intentions I just don't think the program is in any way reforming education or some kind of solution to the problem. Some of the issues I have are outlined in this post. See also: Teach for America Burned Me Out and Teach for America Alum: Problems with the Model.

[klainelynch]

I fucking hate technology right now. Either I have firefox, which for some reason refuses to load tumblr properly (only tumblr, mind you) to the point where even if I make this reply post in firefox, it loads to a big fat NOTHING; or, I have Chrome, which is apparently incapable of allowing me to paste screenshots of replies which is necessary to me since tumblr is more worthless than me in a game of "Hey can you reach that for me?" and refuses to let me copy and paste replies. Anywho.

Nikko- I know, right? That Christmas art is perfection and so cute!

Kathleen- FLAILING INCOHERENTLY at both the STAR TREK TRAILER and the GAME OF THRONES BEER. With the former, I'm just super super pumped and also worried that there is going to be angst and I'm going to die in the theatre; with the latter, I don't care that it's a shameless moneymaker, I plan on buying right into it! Literally!

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Paul McCartney - MICHELLE (@ the White House) (by galoop67) In which Paul McCartney shamelessly flirts with the President's wife and everyone is cool with it. (This one's for you, BB!)

[klainelynch]

GAH I am so tired but if I don't write this down now then I'll forget it all

So I had an absolutely wonderful time at my first ever convention, Adventurecon. It was a small con but so much fun because there weren't pushy lines so you could actually talk to fellow fans and the celebrities they featured. I'll put it under a cut since there are pictures and entirely too much text, but I saw Chris Sarandon, Alan Tudyk, Kevin McNally, Julian Glover, and Ian Whyte.

I got a picture with Chris Sarandon and had the chance to tell him how much I love The Princess Bride for being my go-to happy movie, and he just reiterated how well that cast got along which makes my heart so happy.

(I dressed up as a zombie!Alice in Wonderland btw.)

I did not get a picture with Alan Tudyk but I went to the panel that he did and let me tell you- this guy ishilarious. He was still tired from having flown in the night before so he was kind of loopy, but that really only made him that much funnier. Kathleen asked him if he would be reprising his role in Arrested Development and he goes, "I can't really say," and then starts shaking his head as we all laugh. "So, we'll just have to see if I come back" *nod* "for an episode" *nod* "or two or three" *eyebrow raise* And he would give people who asked a question free stuff (or as he called it, "here have some shit!") and it was so funny because some of it was what you would expect- Kathleen got an autographed set of Suburgatory and he gave other people scripts from past shows, but he was also giving away pictures of himself with various costumed diseases.

He told a great story about how his character was going to die in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (and assured us that the director is really funny and what they shot was much funnier than what ended up after editing). The director (who is Russian and Alan did the accent while he was telling the story) came up to him and said, "You will die here. Your head will get cut off and thrown into the river." Alan thought this was great. The director comes up to him the next day and says, "Has been changed. You still die, but in different way. You think you are not to die, you kiss his ring in thanks, ring gives off poison, you die." Alan loved this way. The director comes up to him a few days later and says, "Has been changed. You still die, but in different way. There will be a fan and it will be thrown into your neck and you will die that way." Alan still thought this was cool. A few days later he comes up to him again and says, "Has been changed. You die by a newspaper being folded up and thrown into your neck and you die." Alan was just so confused as to how it would work, and took a picture of the monitor after they filmed it because he thought no one would believe him. Also, after he died, he was just standing there in the back propped up with a smile on his face because he died laughing and the scene just continued. It sounds so ridiculous and unfortunately/fortunately it did not make the final cut.

As we were leaving I worked up the courage to say hello to Julian Glover. I told him I didn't have enough money for an autograph but I just wanted to say how much I loved him on Game of Thrones as Grandmaster Pycelle and if I could ask him about a spoiler for the next season (so if you're not caught up on the books, best continue to the next paragraph). I asked if he was familiar with the term 'Red Wedding' and if it would be happening this season. He started to say that Joffrey was getting married this season, but I should look out for another surprising wedding this season. I said my thanks and shook his hand and then Kathleen, Marley, and I went off to the side and DIED. Also Game of Thrones related, I got to meet Ian Whyte who played Gregor Clegane in season 2. I don't have the picture that I took with him (I was relying on my kind friends with cameras all weekend) but he is 7'1 and I am 4'9 so...hilarity. I was too shy to say anything when I got a picture with him, but Kathleen went back later to get a picture and I asked him if he had read the books. He said he'd read some, and I asked if he had read A Storm of Swords. He had, so I said that I was really looking forward to his big fight with Oberyn Martell at the end. He said, "Yeah, I am too. That's my big confession, isn't it! I'm a naughty boy." I. DIED.

Okay so Game of Thrones spoilers are done.

The main thing we did today was go to a Q & A with Kevin McNally, who is most well known for playing Gibbs in Pirates of the Caribbean, but he has actually been in a lot of stuff. He is absolutely hysterical and my cheeks literally hurt for a good 20 minutes after the panel because I had been smiling so much. I asked him if he had any actors he'd love to work with but hadn't yet had a chance to, and he replied Anthony Hopkins or Robert DeNiro, though his daughter has a list of actors 'he'd love to work with' and he reckoned Justin Timberlake was on that list about 3 times. A lot of his stories were funny because of the way he was telling them and entirely too long for me to put here, but he was very proud of the parallel he realized between POTC & Star Wars and had to share it with us.

Luke Skywalker = William Turner

Princess Leia = Elizabeth Swann

Han Solo = Captain Jack Sparrow

Chewbacca = Gibbs (this was of course his favorite bit)

Darth Vader = Barbossa

R2D2 & C3PO = Ragetti & Pintel

An Ewok = Commodore Norrington (someone asked him who Norrington would be and he struggled for a minute to think of the most boring character in Star Wars, then promised he would text this to Jack Davenport)

Edit: I forgot to mention that I hugged him! Someone asked if they could hug him in the Q & A, and afterwards he asked if anyone else wanted a hug so yeah I took that chance. I also remembered a story that he told- he was talking about one of his worst filming experiences ever. I don't remember the name of the movie, but he had to film on a boat in the Arctic, and the crew nearly went out of their minds from boredom. He said there were two pipes on the boat that were constantly flowing water off the side, one at the front and one in the middle. The Huskies on board would pee near the front, and for fun they would drink the water off the middle, and sometimes it would have pee in it and sometimes it wouldn't. They called it "Husky Roulette" and Kevin started laughing really hard because he said he'd forgotten about that name until that very moment.

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So basically I am exhausted and it doesn't feel like this was my fall break because I'm just as tired as when it started, but that's all right because this was a fantastic first con and I can't wait to do it all over again.