Starheel's Adventures

Hey, look at this--two LJ posts in two days. That's a new record for me!

Anyway, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm going to try to use my LJ in large part for costuming stuff. So here's my first posted project! Last night when I should have been working on my latest book (LOOMING DEADLINE...), I instead got caught up in working on the gear for my Harry Potter Quidditch costume--partly because I want the costume, of course, but largely because I wanted to see if I could actually manage all that leather (or in this case, vinyl) work. And so far, I think it looks halfway decent:










Yep--I'm making the gloves too. Because I am just that ridiculously insane.

Anyway, three hours later I got away from the sewing machine and suddenly remembered "Oh, yes--wasn't I supposed to be working on Chapter 1? Ooops...."

Well, as all of my friends know, I am TERRIBLE about keeping up with my LiveJournal. Between Facebook, MySpace, my own blog (http://www.ghostposting.blogspot.com, BTW...), all the club forums I have to keep up with, etc.--honestly, I don't know how people do it. ;) But, since so many of my good friends are on LJ, I figured I'd better get with the program just so I can keep up with them. So here I am. :) I figured if nothing else, I can post my costume progress as some of my other costuming buddies do--that might help keep me motivated...

OK, I don't usually like to brag, but this was such as AWESOME thing for me I've just gotta cheer about it. Weird Al Yankovic has been on tour in concert for the past few weeks, and I had seen he was going to be in North Carolina for a couple of his stops. Being the huge fan (and geek!) that I am, I did a little more digging, and discovered that a few of my fellow 501st Legion stormtroopers in California had appeared with him as backup for the Star Wars parody "The Saga Begins..," and I thought, all right, I'm going to see if I can get the Carolina stormtroopers in on the action.

Well, I sent e-mails from both the tour/home website and Al's MySpace page, and nothing happened...then I called a few friends of mine who knew people on the tour staff to see if they could help and nothing happened...then I finally did what I should have done in the first place, which was contact our Legion Commander (who had helped set up the California show) to get him to pass on my info to the tour folks, and still nothing happened. When this past Friday (the 3rd) rolled around (the concerts were Saturday and Sunday), I figured, well, rats, it's a no go then, but I tried.

BUT! I was manning the 501st table at Trinoc-Con (a small literary convention in Raleigh) on Saturday afternoon when suddenly, out of the blue, I got a phone call from one of the tour promoters wanting to know if I could get at least six stormtroopers and possibly Darth Vader for the show on Sunday. Mind you, this is 4:30 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, and the show was SUNDAY EVENING, so I was a little frenzied! I had to hustle my butt plate in gear, post an emergency message on the Carolina Garrison forums, and make a few frantic phone calls, but by golly, by midnight Saturday I had confirmed six troopers (plus an alternate) and Darth Vader for Sunday.

Long story short (too late--long story already long)--I got to appear on stage along with several of my fellow stormtroopers in concert with Weird Al!!! I'll admit, that evening I had my second ever fan-girl moment (the first was when I met Mark Hamil....), but it was an awesome experience. As an added bonus, the two cheerleaders they normally have backing up Al on "Smells Like Nirvana" had not been arranged for the Raleigh show, and the tour staff asked for two brave trooper volunteers to take their place (apparently when it was discovered that the cheerleaders hadn't been arranged, someone jokingly suggested to Al that the troopers do it, and he liked the idea). So not only did I get to stand in formation and then rock and roll to "The Saga Begins," I also got to help choreograph a cheerleading routine, in armor, in less than two hours, and perform that on stage as well. Two stormtroopers cheerleading with big red pompoms is not something you normally see every day... I think my best moment of the whole evening was being put in place on the stage for the "Nirvana" number and seeing Al (who starts the song with his back to the audience, facing us), trying hard not to laugh his head off at us.

And as an EXTRA special bonus, Al met with us backstage after the show and signed autographs, took pics, etc. (there are more pics in my photo album area). What a great guy!!! It will be "a day long remembered!!"

So again it's been a while since I last posted, but lots has been going on! I'm finishing up the school year here at UNC-Chapel Hill (wow, that makes it sound like I'm still in school...), just finished up work on another movie (George Clooney's latest film "Leatherheads"--that was FUN!), and am getting ready for a lot of different events/travelling this summer. Oh, yes, and of course costuming! I'm busting my butt trying to get my Boushh costume (Princess Leia's bounty hunter disguise from "Return of the Jedi") finished in time to present at a panel at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles later this month. I have to have a Power Point presentation turned in on it tomorrow, and I have NEVER done Power Point before, so it's been interesting...but thanks to the help of my sister, it's actually turning out quite decent!

This weekend I am off to perform with the ShadowPlayers (my stage combat group) at a "weekend at the beach" that a local service club in Raleigh hosts for children with cancer/other life threatening illnesses and their families. It's a good event--we love interacting with the kids, and I think they enjoy seeing us there. It's sad, though, in that we never know who will be back from year to year. Although sometimes it IS a good thing--they may have recovered or be in remission, and that's what we hope for.

"Leatherheads" was a great experience--I worked as both an extra and costume crew, and caught up with a lot of people I know in the industry as well as met some great new folks. Oh, and it was especially nice working with George Clooney as director--he's extremely personable and has a wicked sense of humor! As an extra, I played a football fan (along with hundreds of other "fans"), and was actually on the front row at the stadium for a few shots, so you never know--I may even get some "face time."

Next stop, Star Wars Celebration IV, a HUGE gathering/celebration of Star Wars fans/celebrities/etc. for the 30th anniversary of the film. I had been debating about going for some time, but many good friends talked me into it, and it looks like I'm going to be a busy trooper (literally!). Between the costuming panel, several group skits for crowd entertainment, group costume photos/gatherings, and another presentation or two, I hope I may actually have time to see some of the convention. ;) I'm especially looking forward, though, to catching up with old friends I haven't seen in a long while, and that's one of the main reasons I go.

OK, back to frantic costume building...

Now, let's see if THIS works!

Well, I TRIED to insert the images, and it didn't happen...sorry for all the empty space, gang! I'll try something else...

Hey,gang! I can't get the photos to post, sorry about that! Let me try something else.

http://movies.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/LabyrinthCostuming/photos/view/b2d9?b=6

I don't know if you can access this link without being in Yahoo Groups, but it might be worth a shot! And if THIS doesn't work, I'll try something else!

Wow, I'd almost forgotten I had a LiveJournal (heck, I'd certainly forgotten my password--it took me several tries to get it right!). I used to have NO time to spend at a computer and catch up on e-mail, much less try to keep up with my LJ--now I have a new job where I have HOURS to spend at a computer and catch up on EVERYTHING. I'm currently working as Stage Properties Manager in the Drama Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, at least till the end of the school year. We're in the middle of tech week (which is basically the last week of rehearsal before a play goes up, and means that I've been pretty much living at the theater last week and this one), and now that all my props are built/bought/modified/repaired/etc., I'm basically just on call here while they do the play in case something blows up. So I figured now was a good time to get caught up on things!

It's been really weird being back at Chapel Hill--I was in college here, and in the years since then the campus has changed just enough to be disconcerting, with a few familiar things still left here and there. Sometimes I feel like a student again, and other times I know I don't really belong anymore. One interesting thing is that being back in vaguely familiar territory has rekindled an old costuming love of mine, the movie "Labyrinth"--it's one of my favorite movies (along with "Star Wars") and was what inspired me to want to work in the entertainment industry (along with "Star Wars.") My old college buddies on my LJ list will know exactly what I'm talking about!

On the other hand...I'd forgotten how much theater actually sucks. :( You've got to really love this industry to want to put in 90 hours a week, killing yourself for someone else's dream for next to no money, and I don't love it anymore (to be honest, I don't think I loved it ever). The long work weeks, plus the 2 hour daily commute I have at the moment, are really sucking the life out of me--that, and the fact we only get paid once a month, and I haven't gotten my first paycheck YET. Sheesh, what was I thinking?

Well, I guess I was thinking I didn't have a job at the moment, and ANY job is better than none. And that I would enjoy being back in Chapel Hill, which I have, mostly. It's just that the job isn't what I had hoped (that always seems to be the case...;) I DO have a couple of potential movie gigs, although I had originally planned to take a few months off from movies, to try and work on some projects of my own. That hasn't happened either (although I HAVE been able to post on my various boards, keep up with my e-mail, and get some research done, so I guess that's something). Finally, I'm going to have to look for a job AGAIN as this one ends in May, and there's no guarantee the school would offer me the contract for next year (or that I should take it even if they did).

So in the meantime, do I give up my awesome apartment in Charlotte and move here, for a job I don't enjoy but is at least a job, or do I keep it and go back to Charlotte in the summer and hope I can find something there (when I haven't had much luck in the past few months)? Do I move somewhere entirely different? Ah, decisions, decisions...

LOL! Wow, this is a NICE long post. And cheerful, too! When I come back, I do it with a vengeance. ;)

Hope everyone else is well, really!

Well, yet another couple of months has passed in between LJ visits! It's been a crazy fall since I got back from the Civil War film in Virginia. I'm still searching for a full time job, but have been working lots of small jobs in the meantime (I was recently back at Grey Seal Puppets helping build several puppets for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Watch for them on the Cartoon Network float!). I've also done a few more acting gigs-last month ago I was in Atlanta shooting a few scenes for a CNN International show called "Future Summit." They were discussing whether or not sci-fi technology could ever become reality, and I portrayed a Star Fleet officer in a landing party, and a Rebel assault soldier (from Star Wars). The program will air throughout the day on Thanksgiving on CNN International (a channel which I unfortunatly don't get, but have several people taping the show for me!).

Yesterday I got a day's worth of work as an extra on a film shooting here in NC called "The Key Man." I didn't know much about it except that it took place in the '70's (you should see the hideous polyester dress they put me in! No, on second thought, maybe not, it was REALLY hideous...), and that the scene was an outdoor barbecue. I discovered that one of the lead actors was Jack Davenport, who played Commodore Norrington in "Pirates of the Carribean." It took me a moment to recognize him in '70s hair and clothes, but there was no mistaking the accent. Getting to meet him (as well as joking around with the other hideously-clad extras!) made a cold, wet, polyester-laden day much more fun. (Now we know what Commodore Norrington is doing with his time off...)

I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Essex, Maryland (just outside of Baltimore), enjoying a few hours off before I have to get to work on my latest project, the Civil War film "Red Legged Devils." We are in week two of production, and have hit the halfway mark. It's been a very interesting project so far--I am currently working as set decorator, and so I've helped recreate a Civil War camp (many times!), built many, many fires, and blown smoke in people's faces (literally!!!). I also got a VERY interesting part as an extra, and even though I know already it won't be in the final film due to techinical difficulites, I was at least able to get some greast pics from it, and will post those as soon as I can. Let's just say I never thought I could look so much like ZZ Top....;)

So we will be here until the end of September, and I am glad for the work. Before this, I actually got the opportunity to work on a Baliwood film about NASCAR (now THAT was an interesting combination!!!), and did a trailer for a pirate movie on the NC coast. I'm at least keeping busy, but it's all made me miss a lot of other things--DragonCon, for instance, from which I've been looking a everyone's photos and reading everyone's posts, and being really sorry I missed it. Ah, well, DragonCon will be there next year, and hopefully I will too!

With permission from the producer, I'll try to post some pics from the Civil War set. The cast and crew have been great to work with, and the weather too with the minor exception of Hurricane Ernesto and a freak downpour yesterday. There's nothing like three feet of mud to help give the true feeling of being in a war outdoors!

Photos later!

So much for good intentions! I really had hoped to have more things to add to my blog, and once again time got away from me. Although this time, I have a excuse (and a pretty good one, I think...)

A few weeks ago, I got a call from the costume designer for the film "Evan Almighty" (the sequel to "Bruce Almighty!"), which was shooting up in Charlottesville, Virginia. They needed help in the wardrobe department, and I had to drop pretty much everything else I was doing and get to Charlottesville from Charlotte (a five hour drive) quick!!!! What started out as a three day job sorting costumes to be shipped back to L.A. turned into an almost three week job as I ended up on set helping with hundreds and hundreds of costumes for one of their BIG scenes. I won't go into too much detail (you'll all have to go see the movie!), but I can tell you it involves a life-size ark (which was an AMAZING set piece), animals in twos, and lots and lots of water...

In between all that, I had to rush back to Charlotte one weekend for ConCarolinas, a small sci-fi media/litererary convention where I was hanging out with my fellow pirates and plastic people (aka stormtroopers!), and was also doing a few costuming panels and workshops. So that was two more five-hour drives in the dead of night, as I had to rush back to Charlottesville on Sunday evening to be at work at 5:30 am on Monday!

Last weekend, though, I was able to stay in Virginia to work at Norfolk HarborFest, where my stage combat group was working as the entertainment, doing sword-fighting as pirates. It was fun but a lot of hard work, and that on top of the 16-hour-days I was putting in on the film (that's show biz for you!) was starting to wear. If you count everything I was doing on the film, at the convention, and finally at HarborFest, I hadn't really had a day off in almost three weeks. Whew!

It hasn't all been fun and games, though. I had thought to be on "Evan Almighty" through this past week, and had made hotel reservations in Virginia to cover that. The hotel had messed up my reservation, and had me checking out a few days earlier than I thought! They were able to get me another room, though, and just as I had moved all my stuff from one room to another, the film folks called and said that the shooting schedule had been changed, they didn't need me any more, and I needed to check out of the hotel as they would no longer cover my expenses. Once again, that's show biz...I had just put in a load of laundry, and had to rush to get that done and out before my room key expired. After that, I pretty much threw everything in the car, turned in my time sheet, and headed back to North Carolina. The first of many bad moments, as on the way back the company I normally work for here in Charlotte called and said that THEY didn't need me at the moment either. (Put out of work twice in one day, that must be a record!) It was in this frame of mind that I noticed, as I was driving down highway 81 S in Natural Bridge, Virginia, that a baby deer had been hit by a car and was stranded in the middle of the road, still alive. Not a pretty sight. I ended up pulling off the road and calling the Highway Patrol, knowing there probably wasn't much more they could do than put it out of it's misery, but it was the only thing I could think to do.

So I'm back home at last, now, out of work for the moment and basically just decompressing from the frantic film scheduleand trying to figure out where to go from here. I did have a small voice-over job earlier this week (doing a mock-news-broadcast for the on-line curriculum at UNC-G), and helped a good friend of mine finish packing and leave for her new job with the BBC in Cardiff, Wales. What will I do with myself in the meantime? I do have a ton of costuming I could work on, and I suppose I COULD actually keep up with my e-mail and blogs now....nah, that would be too practical. ;)

Hey, gang, I'm back again! Let's see, it's only been, what, a month now? Hey, I'm getting better!!!

Actually, I DO at least try to check in and read up on folks, even if I don't get the chance to post back. I guess that makes me a Live Journal lurker. ;)

YES! We got the moose done, and gone. YAY!!!! We did actually get some pictures of it that I'll try to post once I figure out how (yes, I am woefully computer illiterate....)

On my own costuming front, the Buttercup dress is still in the works, but I've almost finished the cap to go with it! And I got another costume finished that I have no earthly idea why I wanted so much to make it--Padme's brown maternity dress from the end of Revenge of the Sith. No, I'm not pregnant, and it's not like it's a remotely attractive costume! It's just one of those things I had to get out of my system (although I was able to put it to good use in a performance by the comedy troupe I belong to at RavenCon a couple of weeks ago). With a couple of towels posing as the twins, it actually looked halfway decent! I'll try to post pics of that as well.

Lastly I got a semi-exciting acting gig--I'm off to the coast at the crack of dawn tomorrow to be an extra in a series for the Sci-Fi Channel called "IQ 145." I have NO idea what it's about (I suppose I'll find out tomorrow!), but it should be a fun day. After that I'm sword-fighting at a charity weekend event (yes, sword-fighting for charity, whoo hoo!!!!) also at the coast, so that worked out pretty well.

And I'm still running/training for the half-marathon in September....well, sort of....

It's good to be back with everyone! Hmmm, at this rate, it might only be THREE weeks till my next post.

OK, so it's only taken me two months now to update my journal! I do have SOME excuse--it's been a crazy few weeks. I've been in the middle of some frantic deadlines at work, and right now I'm currently struggling with that great American institution, the income tax (don't ever, ever, EVER be self-employed if you can possibly help it, it's put me in the middle of tax-payer h*ll.) But I have one last horrible week ahead of me, and after that things should hopefully be calmer (the taxes will HAVE to be done, and the deadlines at work will have to be done as well.) So will I do better then about updating my journal? Only time will tell...;)

The projects at work have actually be pretty interesting. We're working on a life-sized animatronic talking moose head for a client in Tennessee, and actually ordered a taxidermy form for it. I knew those things were big, but I had no idea HOW big. Our workshop coordinator (hey, Vania!) took a picture of the two of us with it and posted it on her own site--it's almost as tall as we are. And of course the Monty Python jokes are flying thick and fast (..."a moose once bit my sister...") We're hoping the client will send us a copy of their video when they're done, I'd love to see that thing in action!

Our second project is the mascot for the WNBA Charlotte Sting, and it's turned out to be not quite as fun(ny) as the moose, although it's certainly interesting in it's own way. I think I'm mildly sad that, while the men's NBA teams (such as the Charlotte Bobcats and the New Orleans Hornets, both of whom we've worked with) have these sleek fierce-looking costumes, the Sting is vaguely round, furry, and has light-up googly eyes and a squeaker in it's nose. But, it's still in production (in an odd place, as we say), and I'm sure it will look much different when it's complete.

And even with work and taxes I've made some good headway on my own costuming stuff! I've just finished up a slew of StarGate stuff for a friend of mine, am cranking out Star Wars Imperial Officer's hats for several other folks, and finished my own original-series Battlestar Galactica outfit (Serina's blue party dress, for everyone that might remember the costume). I also made some AWESOME finds--our local dollar store had these enormous clear plastic Easter eggs that are PERFECT for the lights around the bottom of Queen Amidala's red throne room gown (I have the costume, but have always wanted to fix those blasted lights, and now I can, in my copious free time). Too many costume projects, too little time and money...

Wow..I know, it's been pretty much a whole month since I updated my blog, how lame am I?!?!?!? So much for my New Year's Resolution to keep up better with my blog/e-mail...;) But it's been a crazy month, even more so than usual, and I'm behind on EVERYTHING, not just on-line stuff. I had a minor car accident (which fortunately didn't do too much more than scare me to death...), and have been sick, plus work as always has been hectic, so I've been worse than usual about keeping up with things. But with any luck (and hopefully a new computer soon?) I'll be able to do better!

Costuming has been keeping me busy, both at work and at home-at work I've been doing stuff for both the New Orleans Hornets NBA team and the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team, and at the end of the day look like I've been attacked by Garfield (covered in orange fur...). At home I've got several costume projects in the works (J-9, you should see the FABULOUS dollar-a-yard red silk-like fabric I got at Wal-Mart!!!), and am trying to finish up one in time for a conference this weekend. Yeah, we'll see how that goes.... ;)

So that's me!!! Hope everyone else is doing good!

Hey, everyone! Just wanted to say thanks again for the support on the marathon, especially in regards to the posts on that message board. I've had a lot more people say positive things than negative since then. Thanks, guys! :)

Disney has started putting up the pics from the marathon, and some of the official ones can now be found here! I'll put up my own once I get them developed:

http://www.asiorders.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=8161&BIB=28124

Wow, I'm looking pretty grim in these...;)

Just wanted to post and thank you all for the kudos and comments--it means a lot to me, guys. Especially after reading the posts on this last link someone sent me....

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=Ao5DO4vReIuRe35rU.M91FtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2ZG9wdm9vBGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANQUlZUXzc4/SIG=11oeiohfv/EXP=1137274992/**http%3a//www.metafilter.com/mefi/47651

I'm almost--ALMOST--tempted to pay the 5 bucks required to open an account with this service and reply...but nah, it's probably not worth it...

Anyway, I know YOU guys support me, and that there's another couple of thousand dollars that the ACS didn't have before. That's all that counts!

Thanks again, everyone.

-C

Well, I just got back a couple of days ago from my trip to Walt Disney World, where with my team members Amber Biles and Sue Jay, I completed the half-marathon in my stormtrooper armor on Saturday!!!! I finished the run in 3:33, which is just a few minutes past the three and half hour mark--but considering it was my first run, in armor, and I was constantly stopping for pictures (plus a needlessly complicated bathroom break as I struggled out of and back into my armor in a tiny, stinky Port-O-Jon...), I think I did OK. And I didn't finish last, either!!!! :)

I will be putting up pics once I get them developed (yep, we did things the old-fashioned way, and took a couple of disposable cameras with us on the run--a good thing as it turns out, since I dropped mine twice). There should be a LOT of photos! In addition to stopping for pics during the run, I also got my picture taken with Mr. Incredible, the green army men from Toy Story, and Mickey and Minnie Mouse at the end of the race (complete with a kiss from Mickey, whoo hoo!!!!:) Amber and Sue and I pretty much collapsed in the hotel for a much-needed nap after the run (we had to be up at 3 am, to be on the bus by 4:30, and at the race starting point at 5 as the run began at 6). My fellow runners seemed pretty impressed with the stormtrooper armor, although most of them thought I had escaped from the Star Wars ride at Disney/MGM. ;) I've got some pretty impressive bruises and rub marks (known as "trooper tracks"...) from the armor, but other than that, and being really stiff and sore for a while (even now!), I came through all right.


And I have my first marathon bling! The half-marathoners get a gold Donald Duck head medal, the full marathoners (who ran the next day) get a gold Mickey Mouse head, and then there's what they call the "Goofy Run"--whre runners do the half-marathon the first day, and then do the full marathon the next. (And people said _I_ was crazy for running in the armor!!!). It did give me a real boost, though, when as we were walking on Monday we came across someone wearing a Goofy medal and congratulated him on his run. He replied "That's nothing--I saw some girl running the half-marathon in a stormtrooper suit!!!!"

We did get the chance to play in the parks for the rest of the weekend, along with my friend Doug who's a fellow stormtrooper (or rather, Darth Vader!), and do some clubs at Downtown Disney. I got to ride Space Mountain for the first time (it's always been down whenever I've been at Disney before!), and managed to restrain myself from buying out everything at the Star Tours shop in spite of my best intentions.

So far, the team has raised close to $2000.00 for the American Cancer Society, and more donations have been coming in. We'll leave the site up for a while as the pledges come in--plus Amber has already registered for the inaugural run at Disney Land in California later this fall, and I think Sue was thinking about it as well. It's tempting! Amber has also said she wants to do the Goofy Run next year (and Sue made note of the day and time she said this...)

Thanks VERY much, everyone, for your support through this. :) It felt great to know that I had a lot of people thinking about me as I ran. I'll hopefully be putting the pics up very soon!

Cher

Well, I am off to the marathon this weekend..I leave tomorrow and run--er, I mean, walk fast--on Saturday. So I won't be around to post or read until after I get back (not that I'm able to do that much, anyway...;) But I'll try to get a report and some pics up as soon as I can next week! With any luck they won't be pics of me being hauled off in the sad wagon 'cause I couldn't finish the race.

Hope everyone's had a great holiday, and is having a good New Year's so far!!!!

Cher :)

Oh, and BTW, Dena, I wanted to say thanks for the nice comments on my Leia costumes. It was awesome to meet you at CIII and I'll look forward to seeing your journals/pictures as well! And hopefully we'll all get to do another Slave Leia photo shoot at an event soon...

OK, so I've actually had this account (or rather, Janine set this account up for me..hey, Janine!!!) MONTHS ago, and I'm just now writing my first journal entry...how lame is that?!?!?!?!? Sorry, gang! But I'm here at last, and figured now at the holidays would be a great time to start getting caught up with folks. I'd actually been planning to write my own review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (4 months later...), but thought I'd post about my latest project first.

As many of you know, this past year I lost three friends to cancer, one of whom, Katie Johnson, was only 7 years old and had been fighting a brain tumor for almost a year. Katie's father Albin, a very good friend of mine, is founder of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers, a Star Wars costuming club; that, along with Katie's great love of Walt Disney World, prompted me to sign up for the Disney Charity Half-Marathon which I will be running IN MY STORMTROOPER ARMOR! to raise money for the American Cancer Society in memory of Katie and others I've know who've had cancer. Several other folks will be running with me--there's more info on the event here:

http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TRpg=personal&fr_id=1060&px=1066644

OK, I say running--in my case it will be more of a fast walk. ;)

So here's my first entry!! And hopefully later I can still do my review of HBP. ;)