PoP, Sundance Edition

Or That Time When I Went To Sundance And Didn't See Any Movies Or Anyone Famous

But you know what? I'm okay with that. It was a calculated risk and even though the experience didn't turn out quite like I planned, I had a good time.

Here's the important stuff...
-Going to Park City required two of my least favorite things. 1) Driving on the freeway. 2) Driving somewhere I've never been before. And I survived! Yay!
-They have a free bus system that loops around the city during the festival and while it's a great idea, there's so much traffic that it takes forever to go from one place to another. I seriously spent about an hour going around the loop.
-I just barely missed seeing Ewan MacGregor. I heard people mentioning his name, so I joined the throng of Sundancers huddled around a closed shop. When they opened the shop back up again, he had slipped out the back door. Argh! (Even still, just knowing he was right there was pretty awesome.)
-Even at the quickest deli, a simple gyro will take 25 minutes to prepare. Really, guys? Not only was I starving, but I was running late. Not cool.
-I thought I saw Ryan Gosling, but I don't think he was at Sundance this year. In my defense, about 90% of the males in attendance looked like Ryan Gosling. (Scruff + sunglasses + a nice coat = Ryan)
-I wish I had a nicer camera. SO MANY people had these awesome, big-a cameras around their necks and I couldn't help but be jealous.
-This is shallow, but I was extremely pleased by the fact that I picked an outfit that made me look like I belonged. I wore black boots, skinny jeans, a screen tee & cardigan, my black pea coat, and a yellow scarf. Toss in a hobo bag or a man-tote, and that's the Official Outfit of Sundance. I should have worn my hair straight instead of curly, but one girl told me she liked my LC braid.
-Next time, I'm bringing a paperback instead of a hardcover.
-Since I didn't have tickets, I was trying for the Brief Interviews With Hideous Men wait-list. I'll spare you the pain of my afternoon and say that I did not get in and I did not meet John Krasinski. Guys, I was so bummed out by this. I knew it wasn't a sure deal, so I tried not to get my hopes up, but...I did.
-At the very least, I met some interesting people. There was this one lady from L.A. who told me that she used to write for a bunch of TV shows in the 80's and 90's, including MacGyver and China Beach. When I got home, I checked her out on google and IMDB and nothing came up. I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd lie about something like that. Maybe I'll just start telling people that I worked on the crew for Back To You in 2007 and see who notices.
-I met another girl who once got to sit next to Kate Flannery and Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration at the Emmys.
-I wanted to get in the wait-list line for Adventureland, but by the time I left the BIWHM line, it was super long and I was all, "Nuh-uh, no way am I going through that again."
-I liked being able to travel by myself, even if I was only 30 miles away from home. Someday I'd like to go all by my lonesome for an extended period of time and see how it goes.
-But in the future I'd probably find a travel companion for Sundance.
-Since the festival isn't over until Sunday, I'm hoping to catch at least one film before then.
-Pictures tomorrow!

P.S. Happy Inauguration Day! Things are so very exciting right now and I can barely even handle it.