Life update + I'm famous (well, not really.)

[hmpf]

My Real Life sucks to a rather amazing degree at the moment. It's amazing how fast things can go south, though I suppose I should know, having watched such a lot of Farscape... Let's just say I have legal trouble at the moment and leave it at that. I don't feel like going into it. I don't even feel like watching the last ep of Doctor Who right now. (Amazing, how Real Life can take away your taste for fandom. Amazing, how often I can use the word 'amazing' in a single paragraph.)

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This thrilled and slightly shocked me a bit today: I found out the Worldcon people don't just put all the *famous* people on the 'programme participants' list but *everybody* who's agreed to participate in the programme. Since I will be on two panels (one about Farscape, and one about BSG - and I'm properly terrified, even six weeks in advance), that means my name is on there. Which means that for the first and probably only time in my life I'm on a list with people like, oh, I dunno - at the moment it feels like just about everyone whose name means something in SF is on there. Well, not really, but, you know... lots. Lots of famous people. I feel so unworthy... partly because I haven't read books by even half of them, although I know their names.

Check out the illustrious company:

http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/proglist.htm

(No, if you don't know my name already I'm not going to tell you. I prefer to be Hmpf here. It'd be easy enough for anyone feeling stalkerish to find it out, anyway - if you feel you need to investigate, by all means, do, but I'm not going to announce my real name openly here in this LJ.)

Comments

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Heh, at least the Guests of Honor are listed separately so it's only the "Also Appearing" list. ;)

[dashan.livejournal.com]

(Amazing, how Real Life can take away your taste for fandom. Amazing, how often I can use the word 'amazing' in a single paragraph.)

Kannst Du mal sehen, warum ich mir so oft eine Fandom-Auszeit nehme. Mir fehlt dann schlicht und ergreifend die Energie, mich noch in *irgendetwas* hinein zu steigern.
*umärmel* Wenn Du doch dringend was loswerden oder einfach ein bisschen jammern musst, was Du hier nicht unbedingt breit treten möchtest, Du hast ja meine Telefonnummer!!!

From Scapekid

[(Anonymous)]

Don't tell me, you're Mark Chadbourn, right?

Well, Mark, I'm sorry your life is sucky right now. I can understand not wanting to go into whatever it is that's going on. I remember when I had all that crap at my uni (I know you were around when I got my final results and I was really nervous), anyway, I don't know how much you remember about that / I told you, but it was something akin to legal trouble and even mentioning it, even though it wasn't my fault, made me feel unbelievable stupid and embarassed, and when it wasn't making me feel like that it was making me angry and scared.

So, yeah, I can totally empathise with the not going into it, whatever it may be. I'll just hope it goes okay for you. I'm sure it will.

Perhaps getting your name up there with the important people is karma or something, like a consolation prize!

SK.