Six Degrees

(The "mood" drop down menu on the AOL Journals is definitely very limiting...)

  And now for some more "Hollywoodness"...

A few years back a friend of mine told me she thought George Clooney was hot.  I pointed out how wrong she was because for one, he liked Anna Nicole Smith, two, he seemed kind of cocky and three everyone was into him.  Too much.

Then I watched ER.  It must have been his character's rapport with children that got me and I was hooked.  Right on the wagon with everyone else.  And how I hate being like everyone else...

But one day, a guy in our racing team had made contact with someone in the Anthony Edwards' camp and the "Cure Autism Now" charity he is/was/whatever involved with.  That was my entry into the game Six Degrees of Separation.  I knew (or more like it my husband knew) someone who knew someone who was working for/with Anthony Edwards who worked with George Clooney on ER.  At a sudden 5th degree, LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

Then this person in the team actually met Anthony Edwards.  Wow.  I was now at a 4th degree.  Suddenly, I found out I already knew someone who was friends with Mr. Edwards and all too soon I was on the 3rd degree.

Even sooner than that I attended a party and Anthony Edwards was there.  When my turn came to meet him and move up to the 2nd degree, I made an ass of myself and confessed to him how badly I felt by being plagued by some very vivid dreams about GC, as if I was betraying my husband.  Then my fast moving game came to a halt:  George and "Tony" were not exactly the best of friends at the time (I figured this out right after the "George Clooney is an asshole" comment Mr. Edwards made)...  Bugger. 

Did that mean I had to go back a degree? 

 Damnit.  Back to 3rd and no real leads... 

Then we moved to L.A.  My friend Robin (who used to live in Indy) heard me talk about my obsession and told me how she sees GC on occasion, as he frequents the restaurant she works at.  Slowly moving back up to second, I again started to feel back in the game.  "Someday I am to meetGeorge Clooney."

Months passed and like with everything else, out of sight (no pun intended?) out of mind.  I would even see him on TV and really not think much of him anymore, as it seemed I was moving onto something else...  not sure (cough) what, but (cough) something (co-Julia Roberts-ugh ) un-Clooney.  And I was back to 3rd, really...

Enter my daughter to the rescue.  She started attending a French school with a friend and I entered into more Hollywoodness.  A little boy from her class whose father is a fairly well-known TV actor has a crush on her.  And then, lo and behold, she befriended a little girl whose parents are very good friends with...

GEORGE fucking CLOONEY.

Really good friends.  As in go-over-to-his-house-to-watch-the-Superbowl good friends. So I pickup my game piece and happily move two degrees.

I AM NOW OFFICIALLY ON THE FIRST DEGREE.

And back on the game, mostly because I now believe that George is actually trying to meet me, how else could we explain this??

Goodnight. 

G

 

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