beautiful monsters

Missed opportunities

Should have been more organised.
1. There should have been people holding signs, the length of the red carpet, saying “Keep Middle Earth GE Free.”
2. There should have been people organised to start chants (some people hanging from a balcony started yelling “GE Free” during Helen’s speech, but there weren’t enough of them for it to catch on.
3. Should’ve paid Merenia and Tanemahuta (I presume it was him in the end – whoever it was had a more radical hairstyle than usual…) whatever it took to get them to cruise down the side of the embassy with a banner more political than “Only in Wellington.”
It would have been a great way to get Helen's attention.

Ah well. It was good fun, lots of shining happy people. I still don’t get what the attraction is with Viggo though. I mean, yeah, he’s obviously very talented, intelligent, and on to it. And he seems kind and thoughtful. But most people haven’t bothered to find that much out about him – they haven’t got passed his looks. And personally, I don’t really think he’s that cute. But I do have to casually mention, for the purpose of making a certain someone wild with envy, that I saw him in Dymocks the other day. I didn’t even notice I was standing right beside him, so close our elbows were almost touching. Then this woman came up and asked for his autograph, and I glanced over and thought, “oh, that must be Viggo. He’s better looking in person.” But he looked slightly harassed, and after giving his autograph he made a quick exist from the store.

I spent most of the afternoon sitting on the grass, with half an eye on the big screen, and in between reading “The Good Women of China” by Xinran, and chatting to people around me. I think I got burned in the one place I didn’t put sunscreen on – behind my ears.