another star studded day

Today I worked at the restaurant during a shift where there were lots of roundtable discussions scheduled for us kids, so I got to meet various important people (director of Sundance, I think, I wasn't realy listening) as well as my personal hero in life, Rachel Blanchard, of Clueless on television fame. Actually, joking aside, it was pretty cool to sit with about 6 of us under an umbrella on the beach and talk about her career, and her latest role in Where The Truth Lies does establish her as more than just the watered-down Alicia Silverstone.

After work, a couple of us headed to the blue carpet, or Un Certain Regard, to try to get into Down in the Valley, which we had heard was an Edward Norton film. After about an hour of waiting, they let us in with just a badge, which was thrilling. Little did we know, this was also the screening that Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Woods were attending (sheesh, enough with the surprises here, haven't we figured this place out yet? clearly not). So we sat a couple of rows away from them, and the movie was spectacular. The best I've seen so far.

In conclusion, I would like to posit that I am not a very lucky person, and after miraculously securing tickets to a red carpet gala event, sitting down to a chat with Rachel Blanchard, and bumping into Edward Norton at the premiere of his film, I feel that I have sufficiently used up all of my dice or cards or rabbits feet or whatever the phrase is. I seriously don't expect anything else out of this trip; I think this is already more than I expected. Everyone else can continue to pawn for tickets to dance with Paris Hilton (not that hard, I hear), but I will be perfectly happy coming home with the experiences I've already had thus far.

In a different sort of story, I came to breakfast this morning and found a note waiting for me. Remember that Norwegian journalist I met at the Dreamworks party? He'd left me an invitation to a Scandinavian party with "free drinks, a concert, and Matt Dillon." What a surprise! My first party invitation, and I don't even LIKE parties! Unfortunately, I was too busy chilling with Edward Norton at the premiere, so I completely missed it, but I liked how that worked out. Nice people extending nice offers. So much better than Paris Hilton anyday.