Isn't it Ironic??

I have always been afraid of vampires.

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They make me squeamish.

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I can feel their teeth sink in my neck.....feel the ice cold of their pale pale skin against me.

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So isn't it ironic....that I have a new job....and one of my first big gigs....

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is planning a party for 400 vampire fans.

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Tonight I sat down....and started the first of my series of visualizations.

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With big events.....I pretend to run a movie clip in my head....and see what things look like....sort of an IMAX screening in my head.

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I try and see a line of people outside the store...see the hot afternoon sun on them......what will I do if they start dropping like flies??....

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I try and see the stations where we have acitivites.....I think of Sarah judging a costume costume.....see a line of teen girls up against the newsstand.......what if 100 girls show up instead of 50??

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amazingly..... if you create a movie in your head.....you can see the problems right in your own film clip....

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you see you have to break a group in half at a certain point....you realize even in a store maybe everyone should carry a cell phone to communicate with each other.....you realize you can't hand a wedding cake over to someone standing in a line of a 100 people or you may have a lot of people sharing the cake....all over themselves.

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the first draft of the game plan......

I suppose that's the fun of it.....the movie clip....fortune telling the event...and trying to solve it before the prophecy is true.

And just like a good director...the more you run the clips.....the more you see and test your solutions......and sometimes.....see other things pop up.

That's where I'm at right now.....running the beginning clips....running the first edition of the movie in my head....so I can see what it looks like....

I have 10 days till the premier.....10 days...to edit and remake.....and step back and look at it all....fortunately I have someone helping me who set the scenes for me.....and found some of the props...and understands the fans, the book and the characters....that's essential.

But is still a little too ironic.....to be planning a party to celebrate one of your fears....

.sort of like asking someone who is afraid of spiders to not only sing the"Itsy Bitsy Spider" song but have a few crawl up your arm while you finger play with the lyrics....

....just a little too ironic.