Cozy, Lee, Meghan and I got up early this morning and went to the Hughes & Hughes bookstore in St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre to get in line--in the queue, I should say--to meet Helen Mirren. (HELEN MIRREN.) We held each other's places in line while we all went to buy the book (none of us but Cozy had really planned on buying it before this morning, but--it's Helen Mirren. And a good book). We were among the first in line and we were only getting more excited as the bookstore started to open and people were setting things up.... The line had stretched far back behind us by this point.
And then with no warning, there she was. Just calmly walking out along the line of adoring fans, saying, "I just wanted to come out and say hello to you all."
Did I mention that I love her voice?
She disappeared into the bookstore after a little while. By this point there were a bunch of gawpers standing about the entrance, probably intrigued by the many large news cameras and the enormous queue. Then she came out again, though you could hardly tell with all the newspeople and their cameras surrounding the little signing table, you couldn't actually see her. The few people in front of us went through, and then Cozy (of whom I never got a good picture because some random person was in the way the whole time. Bah).
And then I went up to the table, and she took my book and looked at the postit, and said, "Are you Kenna?" in that beautiful voice. And I said I was, and as she was signing she said, "you must have got up very early," and I burbled "oh, no no, it was worth it!" (Or probably something closer to "nunun...worthit," really.)
I did manage to get some better pictures afterward, though none of them are particularly good. But what do I care? I MET HELEN MIRREN!
Waiting in line before the store opened. Probably about nine-thirty, I'm guessing.
Look! It's Helen Mirren! ....no, really. She's behind all those newspeople and cameras. I swear she is.
And there she is, just barely caught under the arm of another photographer. Her smile is so pretty.
And here's a closeup, an actual Helen Mirren photo, although it isn't all that good sadly.
And back at home, here's my new book...
...with the signature. EEEEEE.
...and that's pretty much all I have to say.
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