I may have hidden my year of birth on Facebook, but we all know the truth: I'm turning twenty-seven next week. This doesn't make me particularly happy, as I'll finally be in my late twenties. There's nothing wrong with that, but I don't want to be there. Yet I will be. I remember in the fifth grade, my teacher, Miss Jenson, told us that she was twenty-eight, and I had thought that was so old. Well, now she'll be about forty-five, wherever she may be. In The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan, the evil future-step-mom Meredith says she's twenty six. Again, I had thought that was so old. I am now older than that. Ugh.
ANYWAY. Regardless of all that, I'm actually excited for my birthday. I didn't have a great one last year, due to falling and hurting myself at the waterfall where Jay proposed, almost getting pummeled by a semi-truck, and finding out my favorite store in the mall was gone forever. But this year! What am I doing this year, you may ask? I'm working!
BUT AFTER THAT.
Two days after my birthday, on August 31, Jay and I will be driving down to Atlanta (again) for a comic con (again). However, this time it will be the con I have always wanted to go to but thought I couldn't afford: Dragon Con. I hadn't realized that one could buy single day passes for $50 instead of a pass for all five days for $150. While Lauren and Kat were here in June, I had been rather upset, as one of my favorite actors, Craig Parker (who played Haldir in The Lord of the Rings) is scheduled to be there, and I knew I couldn't afford the $300 for Jay and me to go see him.
When I realized a while later, however, that one could buy single day passes, I was ecstatic. So we got the passes, and I quickly learned some of my other favorite people are scheduled to be there: Victor Garber (Titanic, Legally Blonde, Roger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Annie), Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob), and Tara Strong (Timmy Turner from Fairly OddParents, Dil Pickles from Rugrats, Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony). I was disappointed that my favorite actor ever, Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, Captain Hook in 2003's Peter Pan, Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery, Colonel Tavington in The Patriot), wouldn't be there, as he was the previous year. But still, I was excited!
Then.
I woke up one morning to a notification on Facebook that Jay had tagged me in a post. It was Dragon Con announcing that Jason Isaacs was now scheduled to attend Dragon Con.
I cried. Seriously. I legit cried.
I have dreamt of meeting Jason Isaacs for years, and years, and years. I have done my absolute best to see as much of his filmography as possible, including going to see Elektra in theatres just because he was in the first five minutes, even though I'd already seen those five minutes online when they released it as a teaser.
Words cannot express how excited I am. I've been saving up as much money as I can, and when people ask what I want for my birthday, all I can say is money for Dragon Con (still ain't cheap, even though I just got a one-day pass). I'll probably miss a lot of the festivities of the con by waiting in line for Jason-related stuff, and I'll likely not get to see everyone else on my list, but I don't care. It's Jason. My favorite actor ever.
I'm.
so.
stoked.
