Still aten't ded.

[clo_again]

Like kindoftrouble said, we're not dead but have just been watching lots of QAF (I wasn't expecting to love the American version as much as the British but I do) and not really anything like hard work, which means I shouldn't feel as knackered as I do today. I could've stayed sleeping longer this morning but I haven't started my NaNo yet and I need to walk the ten minutes to Tesco (oh London you are ridiculously convenient, sometimes) before around half three when I'm heading to Covent Garden.

Why Covent Garden? Well Forbidden Planet is there. And, at the Neil Gaiman talk & signing on Friday, the girl in the queue behind us (we got to know everyone pretty well over the two hours we were standing there; thankfully they were awesome) told me that Pterry was signing sometime this week at Forbidden Planet. Which I thought was probably a mistake and it'd be after I left or next year or somewhere else, because as I was packing my hardback copy of Good Omens to bring for Neil to sign, I thought sadly that I'd never get Terry to sign it too because I'd never even seen him do a signing, nevermind one I could get to and there'd probably be less signings in future from him. So I thought I'd check the Interwebs and it'd be wrong because seriously? There's coincidence and then just plain weird.

But no. Terry Pratchett, Forbidden Planet London, Monday 3rd at 5:30pm. I still don't quite believe it and won't until I get there and see him, complete with awesome hat and all. It's for The Colour of Magic DVD so I'll have to buy that which I wasn't planning on (I don't like Rincewind and I don't particularly like David Jason, so it's a no-win situation for me) but the price is so worth it to get a Good Omens signed by both of them. I'll never let it out of my sight again. I'm trying to talk myself out of picking up The Bromeliad in hopes he'll sign that too because it's my other favourite Pterry thing, but I already own it at home and so cannot justify it. Probably. And then I would have too many things to get signed anyway because I'm taking kindoftrouble's Good Omens too and I don't know if she'll get there in time after work, so... cannot buy another book. Really. Especially one I already own.

Also, I was told about Pterry literally a minute before we reached the front of the queue for Neil and I was still bubbling about it when I went up (he looked knackered but was still taking the time to write personal messages and doodles in everyone's books, bless him) so when he asked how I was, I was all "Yay! You! Pterry next week! Double yay!" And he said right, well if you're seeing Terry I'll write 'Burn this book!" in Good Omens to see if he writes the punchline and also, tell him to 'Watch out for the weasels'.

So I now have a message from Neil Gaiman to pass on to Terry Pratchett. Even though I have no idea what it means but I'm going to ask Terry when I tell him, because weasels? What? I'll let you know.

But yes. In short, life is awesome and I still have another week off; a week that includes DVDs, Terry Pratchett, te British Museum, maybe the British Library which Ive always meant to go see, Lancaster, Crows, fireworks... awesomeness. I still can't believe Gaiman&Pratchett chose the week I was in London and had Good Omens with me to do signings only three days apart. Honestly, stuff like this happens when I'm in London. It's the City of Bizarre Coincidence.

I should stop watching To Buy or Not to Buy and go get dressed. Really. Any minute now.

Comments

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett! And you are their secret message messenger! You win.

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

It's because the American version has Brian and Justin cuteness and naked Gale Harold and ridiculous-but-awesome storylines that just somehow work. And the show is just so damn addictive.