The Aerie
So I'm sitting here at the Blue Moon working on Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month. My spouse and I are writing with our friends Terri and Ellis... Ellis being the Ellis of http://www.ellis-music.com, and everyone here is trying to do Nanowrimo.
The entire time I've been listening to my iPod shuffle which, if you know from the iPod Shuffle, means I don't have a track list or any indicators.
So we're at adjacent tables, typing, and Ellis and I are on the bench along the wall and alluvasudden Leo Kottke wraps up his song and on the iPod comes... Ellis!
I felt a little weird, because here I am listening to Ellis, and Ellis is sitting next to me. I didn't want to say anything to make her feel, I don't know, self-conscious or something, but I wanted to tell somebody so I passed the headphones over to Theresa. She of course immediately spilled the beans, but it didn't seem to bother Ellis at all. I guess that's one of the costs of celebrity!
I actually had something like this happen once. I went to the library and had to ask a librarian a question. I handed my library card to a fellow sitting at a computer terminal. He got a funny look on his face and swiveled the monitor around to show me that he was looking at the website, where my book 'Mitlanyal' was listed for sale.
That was weird, but only in a pleasant way - so hopefully it was just as pleasant for Ellis!
Posted by Albatross at November 13, 2005 4:34 PM | TrackBack