All that you will see.. is a Celebrity

So after Friday's trip to a convention for a community that I don't understand at all, don't belong to, but am somehow a bit of a minor celebrity in (further confusion - furries are a large community within Second Life, the community I help manage), I started thinking about fame.

I've met many famous and semi-famous people in my life, even got to hang out with some of them. Hell, I've even got pictures... that made me wonder how many pictures I really had.

Cleveland, OH 1998 - Tori Amos is too cute for words:
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Ann Arbor, MI 1999 (?) - first or second time I met Henry Rollins:


Cleveland, OH 2000 - the second time I met Neil Gaiman, I remembered the film:


Dayton, OH 2001 - One of the many times I've got to hang with BNL:


Albuquerque, NM 2001 - Scotland's own Proclaimer brothers:


Denver, CO 2002 - Henry Rollins gets frisky the 3rd or 4th time I met him:


Denver, CO 2003 - Me and Ron Sexsmith:


I'm missing some that aren't scanned in... and usually when I've met someone famous as part of a job I didn't get to take a pic, but it is definitely a different thing to be the person getting a picture requested (which happened Friday several times). It's just... kinda odd.

Another Year, Another List of Things to Fix

New Years resolutions have always been something I think a lot about this time of year. How can I make this year the best, the brightest, the most shiny of all years? Vowing to lose 10 pounds, go to the gym more often, eat more healthily and manage my time and friendships/family better are always the big ones.

Good goals I guess, they're definitely things I am always trying to improve upon in both my day-to-day and year-to-year goal setting. But I must always feel like I fall short, because every year, they're on the forefront of my mind, as clockwork as the ball dropping. Perhaps that is the most upsetting part of this begininning of the year rush for self-improvement. Maybe I'd be better off trying to do less this year, instead of more. Who can be sure?