The difference a day makes

[trinityvixen]

I got to see The Colbert Report yesterday, and I'm in love with Stephen Colbert. The real one. He's a TOTAL NERD. Before each show, he comes out to answer questions not in character. I was a little embarrassed at the silence my question generated, but I had to know if he was seriously going to be the POTUS in the new Avengers movie series. He said he'd love that, and then told us a story about how he got Captain America's shield up on his wall. I breathed a sigh of relief that I wasn't the nerdiest person in the room when Colbert, asked to name his favorite LOTR character, went into a long tangent about events in The Silmarillion. (As he put it, he lost half the audience talking LOTR, but you lose 99% of people when you talk about The Silmarillion.) Anyway, the real Stephen Colbert is, like, the awesomest, nicest nerd person who is famous.

The show was good, too. :P

I also found out today that the AC&C in NYC (that's "Animal Care and Control") does, in fact, want to interview me to volunteer. Volunteering, besides the GRE, is the last bit of polish my application (hopefully next year!) for veterinary school needs. To be super-awesome for that, I should, like, go shadow vets in the city. Still working up to that one. It takes a lot of chutzpah to go into a clinic and ask to follow a vet around. It does if you're me, I mean. I blushed so hard asking Stephen Colbert a question--that he solicited! Imagine how well I do asking people for favors who aren't really looking to give any out. I get so, so red. So first step, get in good with AC&C. Second step: ??? Third Step: vet school!

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

He has tweeted about my concert tomorrow. And it sounded like he was coming. eeeeeee

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I saw that. He is so going. After listening to him talk about Luthien and the angel who wept for the world...yeah, he's totally going.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

And you're NOT coming to the rally/march? Pssh.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't want to hang out with Anchor Colbert. I want to be friends with the real deal. He's a total and utter nerd who happens to be famous. I want to, like, talk about comics with him.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Who did he end up saying? It was Sam the time someone asked that question I was there. And the way he answered it was by quoting the last line of Return of the King, which: ♥ ♥ ♥

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Sam is the best character in Lord of the Rings. He's the only one who ever holds the ring and isn't corrupted by it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I named my first car after him! I figured a car named Samwise Gamgee would never let me down. ...then it was stolen.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He actually said Galadriel, but not because of events in LOTR. That's why The Silmarillion came up. He was a total, total nerd about it, and I enjoyed the whole thing.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It depends. You're pretty nerdy for doing opera in the first place, but that's classy nerdy. If you were just doing that particular opera 'cause, hey, it's a job, then you're not more nerdy than that baseline nerdiness. If you, like, helped compose, write, or otherwise instruct people on how to make an opera on that story, yeah, pretty damn nerdy is my answer.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

What is this opera and where can I see it? I must know!

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, vet school? Good luck!

I like Colbert, but I have a bigger crush on Jon Stewart, he's such a silver fox!

I totally get the nerd love thing, I get it so much for my fave YA author, John Green. Especially in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBmjLEq9-1k

If he wasn't already married, I would fly to America and propose :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll need all the good thoughts I can muster!