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Rosie Goes to See James at DragonCon
Monday
Last day! My flight home wasn't until 10.20pm so I had a very
long day in front of me. I half packed, leaving out clothes for
the flight home (have to be comfy!) and I wanted to wear
something nice for my last photo ops with James.
Decided to check out the photo situation first so it was off to
the Hilton but I was a bit early and they weren't out yet. We
were told that all the photos from Monday and the group photos
from Sunday would have to be posted onto us as they wouldn't get
printed I met up with Myrlyn and others by the photo room and we
sat down and got into a long discussion about how words have
different meanings in the UK and US ("fanny" being the classic
example its much ruder in the UK!) Myrlyn was also telling me
about the conversation she had with James about his tongue. She
says it started off as a serious question about genetics (yeah?
ookaay...we believe you!) But James grabbed on and was off
talking about sex
Apparently he gave her a demonstration of the
"tongue drill" which brought all sorts of very interesting
images to mind. (And still does now must ask him to give me a
demo next time
! Ah happy place!)
We decided to go round the corner and join the autograph queue
for James about now and I was glad we did as there was a
notice up saying that James would only be signing from 11 until
photo ops at 11.30 am. As we were walking to the Walk of Fame,
one of the girls with us just happened to mention in passing the
rumour that she had heard that James would refuse go to the UK
anymore after what happened in May. This was the first I had
heard of it and I didn't like the sound of it at all - so whilst
we were waiting in the queue, I went back a bit and talked to
Patti, Mary and Jude they hadn't heard this one either so
didn't know anything either so I said I would ask James about
it when I talked with him. Otherwise, as usual it was no
hardship to queue most of the people in the queue on this last
day were the die-hard James fans.
James appeared (as if by magic from the back of the autograph
tables sneaky!) He was wearing his blue/grey muscle shirt
again which will always be a favourite of mine as he was
wearing it the first time I met him. And who can complain about
those gorgeous arms being on display??
I'd been talking to a girl called Mariah in front of me in the
queue so she talked to James first and I got some of their
conversation on video as well. He was admiring one picture of
them together and then said she looked pretty hot in the one he
had just signed, to which Mariah replied " but you look good
in all of them which is what counts" and James came back with "It's
my job!" which made me laugh!
I said "Hi James" as we shook hands and he said "Hi there babe
good to see you" "Again!" I add, and he said "yeah" firmly
Looking down at the photo (the one of me with James and Gareth)
James said " hey, it's the sandwich" (so he remembered!) and he
went to sign it on the wrong side again where Gareth is
standing and I (and I was so embarrassed when I heard myself
on the video) started ordering James about! I can't believe that
I did! I'm saying "No sign on your side. No! No! over your
side" (there's a silver dot on the photo above Gareth's head
where his pen touched down before I started ordering him about)
and James says "I got it" then I'm laughing and say "Gareth
called you a very rude name for signing on the wrong side
yesterday" and James says " You gonna call me it? I'm pulling a
Juliet Landau on him yeah!" (somebody `splainy please? Does
Juliet sign in the wrong place too??)
As he moved onto the next picture, I told him its one I took of
him at the Union Chapel "oh my God" said James, quietly
studying it (not sure if he was impressed or horrified!) and
then he doesn't say anything else as he signs it. At this point
Steve handed James the bag of lollipops I had brought him and I
said "Yes, and I brought you some more English lollipops" and
grinning as he took them, James said "Love the lollys" in an
English accent!! (Slightly more upper class than a Spike
accent!)
Then I showed him the lovely photo ops from Friday, cos I wanted
him to see it. James did that "that's sweet" look and says "Awww"
(as in "that's really cute" kind of aww) and Steve H is looking
at it too and then James added "I squished my nose for you,
love!" to which I replied "You did squish your nose for me and
it was lovely"
I then went straight on "By the way, I've been hearing rumours
that you are never going to come to England again please tell
me that you are" and James came straight back with " That's
totally wrong! I'd come to England in a hearts
." and he paused
as he was obviously torn between saying a heartbeat and a moment
and then just threw his hand up in a dismissive gesture as I'm
saying " Thank God for that that's all we wanted to know
" and
James was frowning, still thinking about it and says " I love
England" to which I replied " Good we're looking forward to
seeing you soon" and James was still thinking about it and says
" Why not? Who is the silly person who said that? He didn't
seem to think there was any reason why he wouldn't come back. (yay!)
We shake hands again and James says "see you around love" and I
say yeah and also I think (it sounds like it!) I said "Love ya
babe" as I turned to leave! (Much blushing! shameless hussy
again!)
(Am so glad I videoed when I talked to James cos there's so many
little bits I don't remember until I watched it , and so many
little bits I didn't even hear what he said until I heard it I
had no idea he called me `love' and `babe' until I went through
the video just now!! Squee!)
I went across to Gareth and got him to sign the picture of the
three of us too. I asked him if he was on the same flight home
as me too and he thought he probably was. I was telling him how
all his fans were so jealous at the fact that he was on my
flight over Lisa said he had made a load of new fans in the US
over the weekend.
And then I got accosted by Aliens! Two of them! Incredibly scary
costumes really gave me the creeps one came right up to me,
hissing (eek!) - and then said "hello, where are you from?" (They
were English too!) I told him they were the best costumes I
had seen over the weekend which pleased him (well I didn't want
to annoy an Alien and have a little alien bursting out of my
innards on the plane home!)
From there it was round to the photo room and join the queue
again for the last moments with James. As ever, he was game to
do different poses that people wanted in fact he seemed to
find it easier if we had poses planned he was looking a tad
tired by now. I had 4 ops again (somewhere along the line I had
bought one more to make it a nice even 4 each day...) and I
decided to risk asking for what I would like him to do if
James said no, then fair enough no harm in asking!
Great to watch as usual the camera just loves James, he always
looks so good! And then it was my turn. Said "hi" as usual as we
shook hands and I'm grinning from ear to ear (I can't help it in
James's presence I can never quite believe that I'm standing
next to the most gorgeous man on earth it never quite seems
real when its so fleeting!) So I asked James "Would you do one
of you kissing me and then me kissing you? If you don't that's
fine" but James said "sure" and he moved in on me (be still my
beating heart!) and I put my arms round him and just looked
towards the camera. I could feel James touching against my face
what I didn't know was that it would come out as the most
fabulous picture! James is nuzzling me nose and forehead
pressed against my cheek and he's got that half-closed eyes
sexy, snarly look on again. I have this slight smile on my face
an almost sleepy look about me It's just gorgeous!
Then it was my turn to kiss James. He stood facing the camera
legs apart so he was more at my height with his arms folded
and doing a wonderful sexy Spike smirk!. I just put my hand on
his shoulder and kissed him on the cheek. I can report that his
skin was wonderfully smooth (so he really does do a close shave
since the whiskery kiss with John Barrowman!) and he just smelt
wonderfully fresh and clean no aftershave. Ooh, it was lovely!
And again, the picture has come out so well James looking sexy
as hell and me giving him an innocent-looking peck on the cheek!
I had two more shots, but I'd run out of ideas at this point (mainly
because my brain had turned to mush!) so I flapped my hands a
bit and made some "bleahing" noises and then said "oh do
something sexy!" James laughed and said mockingly "sexy?" with a
wry look on his face (I'm sure he was too tired to think) so I
said (and in my defence, my excuse is that I was in James's
gorgeous presence and my mouth was waaaay ahead of my brain
) "well,
we could lie down
!"
I'm not sure if James didn't hear me or decided to ignore me
either way, he didn't react! He got behind me and put his arms
round my shoulders and then Im holding onto his arms and our
faces are together. And on the last one, I went behind James and
again he stood with his legs apart so he was at my height and I
was able to put one arm over his shoulder and the other round
his waist (and I remembered to put my hand flat so I could feel
his nice firm tummy muscles!) and put my chin on his shoulder.
James meanwhile crossed his arms over and his holding onto mine
actually there seems to be a lot of arms in that picture! I've
got my sleepy look on again some people said wicked look! -
but I was all cuddled up to James and pressed against him.
And then it was over. We shook hands one more time, me grinning
away again and I said "I have had such a great time this
weekend" and James replied "so have I" and that was it I
said goodbye and then was leaving.
I did get one more, tiny bit with him I was still outside the
photo op room, talking, when James came out to go and finish off
the last few autographs he had promised. As he walked right by
me, I said "Bye, James" and he looked up at me and grinned and
said "bye" as he walked past.
Not much else to report. Had to go and check out of the hotel
and leave my bags secured whilst I went back to the Hilton to
meet up with Jude, Mary and Iona, so we could have a good gossip
about the weekend. Ended up with Jean and several others as well,
having a big James love-in!
I went shopping in the dealers halls again and this time I did
spend money seemed to buy two of everything 2 t-shirts, two
velvet, beaded tops, 2 books, 2 necklaces and I still had money
left (its gone back into the "James Fund" ready for next time!)
Having said goodbye to Mary and Jude who were on a earlier
flight, I went and sat in the cafι in my hotel and played on my
Nintendo DS, and then went online for a bit to waste time
doing mini reports for various boards.
Rest of the day was spent lurking around waiting to leave for
the airport and then waiting around at the airport (my flight
was over-subscribed as it was filled up with people who had been
diverted because of Hurricane Gustav.) It was on time though and
it passed as flights do I slept a bit and wrote lots of notes
for this and had sneaky looks at my photo ops pictures no way
would they ever go in my suitcase they stay with me! And yes,
Gareth was on the same flight, but I didn't actually see him
until passport control at Heathrow the cowboy hat gave him
away!
I had to catch a bus to get to Jenny's to collect my car and had
to stop on the drive home and have a sleep at Winchester
Services, as I was going cross-eyed with tiredness I finally
got home at about 6pm on the Tuesday..
* * * * * * * * * * * *
DragonCon was one of the best weekends I've ever had it was so
much fun. People had said to me, its hot, its crowded and yes
it was both of those but neither as hot or as crowded as I
thought it would be. I always said I would embrace the madness
and enjoy the whole experience and I did. I met so many
different people, and so many James fans that up to now had just
been names on the various boards. I discovered new bits of
information about James, heard so many different stories about
peoples interactions with him and the mutual squeeing over
peoples photo ops ( I was photographed with my super sexy photo
op at one point as this photographer guy was so impressed by it)
Its one big family, all brought together through a mutual love
of James.
And I feel like I know James a little bit better now, having
spent so much time with him over the weekend. Having time to
actually talk to him at the party and being with him for that
length of time, just seeing him be himself was fantastic. I love
the fact that he seems to recognise me now he feels like a
friend. And he was such a star all weekend always funny and
bouncing and laughing and interested in everything and everyone.
Performing under such difficult circumstances at the party and
pulling it off like the professional he is. Being so chatty and
friendly and accommodating with everyone he met putting
nervous first timers at ease and joking and teasing with those
he knew of old. Giving me some of the most fantastic photo op
shots ever really special moments captured for me to treasure
and make me feel good. Just being able to talk with him and chat
without feeling completely overawed in fact, spending time
with a friend.
The BEST weekend!
James - I love him.
Rosie.
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