Celebrity Gush...

The famous Dooce (who apparently the lucky BlogHer gals got to gush over): “You’re Heather Armstrong? Really? I thought you would be more…more sophisticated. More put together.”

I am sympathetic to her chagrin...but I have to admit something here.

I get really tongue-tied and tend to say really dumb things when I meet someone I admire. At a reading/booksigning for a famous book author, (a children's book author...who had written books I had by that point memorized and could recite in my sleep to a toddler) I said to this lovely lady. "I am so excited to meet you. Great reading. I didn't know you wrote REAL books" (she had read an older children's book selection and an excerpt from an adult book) ugh.

Then at a cocktail party at a rather wealthy big boss' home (the big boss who I can still gush about upon occassion for her very progressive BlogHer-like personality and goals): "Thanks so much for inviting us. I love your house, it reminds me of home with all the stuff stacked all over and the battered furniture"

To the poet laureate...great inscription, I never know what to write. Maybe you could give me tips. (She did actually.)

I could go on with examples...but I won't. Too terribly embarrassing for me.

I have to admit that as many times as I have foamed at the mouth...all were incredibly gracious. I always hope that they got that I was just overwhelmed and do such things under stress when expected to speak. From the other remarks regarding the Dooce celebrity at BlogHer, I expect Heather probably was as well though bemused at some, if not all of it.

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