Day 2 at the BBC: John Barrowman...
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okay gang... I've got to tell you... I was 5 feet from JOHN BARROWMAN!!!! OMFG!!!! Like maybe SFI doesn't believe in coincidences... but err.... then again I shared the same pavement with the man...
Okay this is how it went down... So I'm standing in the big circle the "round-about" in the middle of the question mark... yes... The BBC Television Centre is in the shape of a question mark... (little trivia for you)... and I'm staring at the center fountain... now no longer a fountain when John Freaking Barrowman walks behind me, and my chaperone states "oh there's John Barrowman"....
Suddenly Liv is speechless, her world is in slow motion... her bottom jaw is drops like paint dripping down the wall.... and in my brain now half way dealing with the lack of oxygen from not breathing... is telling myself to scream... do something.... Come on "Liv"!!!! No words would come out... by the time I could get my body to signal my muscles to do something.... John... was gone and on to his dressing room....
I felt like a school girl...
But then again... out of 9 million people in London... I was one of them who got to feel the breeze of John Barrowman walk by....
So besides that... The BBC is an amazing place... They've taken an approach similar to my suggestions I made to local media in Greensboro about combined news rooms encompassing different media types and made it work beautifully here.... (Really cool to see something I recommended to John Robinson in action over here.) Today the studio was prepping for Red Nose Day 09 which is this huge charity event... tons of British girls were lined up at the gates to catch their favorite celebrity enter the gates.... It was kind of neat to walk past all that and through security....
Luckily they had a Tardis handy for me to get super silly with.... and embarrass myself... as did they a lovely BBC store where I got the kids a sonic screwdriver... oddly... you can't access the store just walking on the street... you actually have to find a way into the studio to access the store....
I happened to procure a handy Torchwood 2009 calendar with John Barrowman on the cover.... I held it tight as I walked back tonight... somewhere along the way... it hit me... today might have been the best day of my life.