day #23...what i am doing on my summer vacation

hubby will be the first to note that i lay ridiculous claim to many things, like, i "discovered" johnny depp when he was a z-lister starting out on "21 jump street." back in 1987,  i saw the pilot episode, and quickly concluded in my 13-yr-old mind that he was going to go far. and i knew that, say, dustin nguyen would not.  i lost interest in depp's career at, oh, i dunno, the 5th sequel to the pirates franchise, but up to that point, i considered myself a fan, and felt responsibility for calculating the trajectory of his career much like any hollywood scout would. (note: if i wasn't a Christian, and if i believed in re-incarnation, i'd like to imagine myself coming back in another life form as a hollywood agent.)

loyalty runs fast and deep within me. this is kind of a requirement if you grow up as an ohioan, even more so, if you care remotely about sports. people often ask me, "weren't you lonely growing up as an only child?"  to which i respond: 1) i have absolutely nothing else to compare it to 2) the only times i really felt a "deficiency" was when playing board games (the 2 games my dad caught onto without hurling me into bottomless caverns of exasperation were "uno" and atari's "combat").  3) when i decided not to pursue medicine and felt (all self-imposed, my mom was relieved that i didn't go to med school bc she didn't want me to "goh-sseng" -- translation, "suffering" to the nth blended with heaps of korean-mom drama and sighing) a bit like a failure and wished i had another sibling to pass on this asian burden.

this is a very long intro to say simply that i'm really sad about cory monteith's passing.  i absolutely LOVED the first two seasons of "glee," and the first reason is, i loved the imperfection of his voice, the ridiculousness (and self-awareness) of his dance "moves," and the fact that he genuinely seemed like the nicest guy. i also liked the idea of pursuing the american dream, that he started out as a walmart greeter (tho no walmart greeters i've ever seen would rival his hunky looks) and then landed such a delightful and popular role.  the second reason i loved the show was emma's outfits. 

i have a very unsympathetic audience in hubby, who cares a lot more about the political upheaval in egypt (as he should, and as should i) than anything that happens in hollywood. how is this related to johnny depp? just that i love the initial starts of someone's career, someone with raw talent, and hate to see it stop short. even more so with someone who just seemed like a nice person.