Geek and damn proud of it!

Some time ago, I started asking myself the essential question, the kind of question that every individual ask themselves at some point in their life. I think it’s sane to actually doubt oneself, not knowing who we really are until we face reality…
I came to the conclusion that, well, the answer to THE question is - Yes!

Well… it might help if I told you what THE question is! Am I a geek?

Yes, I do watch way too many TV series, yes I can quote all of them and yes I do it on a daily basis, yes I still have a couple of posters on my walls, yes I watch the behind-the-scene features of all the TV series I like, yes I do have a calendar whose sole purpose is to remind me when to watch which series…
Guilty as charged to all of the above statements, but you know what… I’m proud of that!
At least I’m some kind of an expert in the TV series field! ;-)
I’m the Scully of the 30 and 60mn format!

And being totally crazy and living life to the full, I got involved in a non-profit organization promoting TV series conventions in France. So yep, I met other geeks and yep I met quite a few actors!
I’ll shortly come up with a few funny anecdotes, trust me, when you have 150-200 fans in a room and 2 or 3 actors on stage, there are funny anecdotes!
I might have to start with an introduction to conventions though, every time I talk about it, people think it’s some kind of obscure cult where we worship some character, dressed like them… let me get this straight… it’s not!

A TV series conventions, like any other fan event, has for sole purpose to gather fans of a TV series or genre and actors of said series.
The main activities are a Q&A session, photo sessions, signing sessions… every organization comes up with ways to make a convention special, depending on the guests and the culture (you won’t have the same schedule in France as you would in the USA for instance, it just wouldn’t work).
Anyway… all in due time, I’ll get around to explaining further what a convention really is and how it works… I happen to work on them so I know quite well how it works! ;-)