Six Degrees

So there's a new show on t.v. Thursdays by the makers of Lost and Alias called Six Degrees. You may have heard already. It's based on the concept that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person through a chain of six people, which means that no one is a stranger - The Six Degrees of Seperation. Well my degree of seperation is only a 2 and it doesn't involve Kevin Bacon.

Let me explain:

The woman with me in the above photo is my friend Terry who I've known for a couple years now from theforce.net Defender's thread. That's us at C3 last year with our homemade iron-on t-shirts with pictures from the movies of Anakin and Padme. I had a great time with her and the rest of the gang at the Greatest Star Wars Convention Ever! (which reminds me, I gotta blog about that whole experience...later). She called me right after she saw Episode III and we had to "ohh and ahh" and the whole bit. ANYWAY, like me, she's a Hayden fan and has networked a few Hayden-loving friends and to make a long story short the other picture is of Hayden talking on the phone with Terry!!! It was at the end of Bullrun in L.A. this year and a friend of a friend handed her cell phone to Hayden and Terry was on the other end and they talked for awhile about his hometown, which Terry had just visited, and the really cool thing was that even though he was busy doing his thing with interviews and meething fans and whatnot *she* was the one who had to say, "Well, I should let you go now". She was ready at any moment in the conversation for him to politely say he had to go, but he never gave the impression that he didn't want to talk and he never said it. We knew he was nice and all, but that is just too darn cool of him! He's genuine.

Then there's Jen who I met briefly at C3. She runs a Hayden fan site and had never met him before until she got to be there at Bullrun in the flesh and took this pic with him. Luckyyyyyyyyyy.

Okay, yes, it's pathetic, but still two degrees to my "Anakin" ain't bad! I may be a nice, suburban, religious mom with 3 kids who loves her husband forever and always, but I digress... this actor can reduce me to a giddy school girl. I'm sixteen again and feel a need to plaster his face all over my pink bedroom walls. To quote Teen Girl Squad, "I'm totally crushing!" Actually, only certain pictures of him and his role as Anakin and his new one as Lorenzo in Chasing Temptation (and yes, the cow part is scarey) can do this to me. If he'd never been Anakin, he would just be another one of those good-looking male actors. The fact that I love the Star Wars saga and that Anakin is my favorite character of all time has absolutely nothing to do with this - I SWEAR IT! That iconic character surrounded by mystery and intrigue from the original trilogy..."Anakin"... turning out to be a hottie is just an added bonus. *mischeif smiley*

Don't worry....Andy is perfectly okay with this. He knows I would never run all over creation to meet Hayden like my friends do. Yeah, I've thought about it and with a hubby and kids in tow it just wouldn't be practical. (Spoken sarcastically, of course)



-Britten