from cpf240

This here's my story, and I'm sticking to it:

After a bit of coaxing from TheDuke333, I took my info down to the Background Players office. It looked like they were still getting settled in the new office, even an electrician slaving away to get the hall light working. This may explain the phone outage some experienced. I did not meet or see Janet or Sasha, but gave my info to a woman whose name I think was Christine.

The next 24 hours were torture! I was afraid to be away from the phone, and I did not sleep very well that night. I'll never know if taking my info down there helped. I couldn't wait after seeing all the others - Saxon, Damnitgirlie, Coffeewench, etc - getting to do their part, so I called Background Players.

Sasha answered the phone, and I tried to explain that I just wanted to make sure they had my info, and find out if I was too late to participate. I probably sounded like a babbling idiot. Sasha asked me for some basic info, height, weight, etc, then asked if I could make it to a fitting tomorrow. The answer to that was obvious! We
picked a time, and she gave me the address.

My appointment, or should I say call? was for 3:30 today. I was really worried that I'd get stuck in L.A. traffic trying to go from the LAX area to North Hollywood. I started to panic a bit when the interchange from one freeway to the next backed up big time. I think that somebody really shiny was looking out for me - the alternate route I took had me there 30 minutes early!

No problems finding the place, thanks Duke! There was one guy signing in when I got there. I talked to him a bit, and he was surprised to hear that there was a lot of fan participation on this project. This is what he does for a living, and had not even heard of Firefly - he was told it was something like Chronicles of Riddick! I gave him
a quick show history and story outline.

While he was getting his costume, I took a long hard look at all the cast photos on the wall. That was awesome!

Finally it was my turn. Terri gave me my costume and showed me to the "dressing area" - I don't think it qualifies as a dressing room. Watch out for all the safety pins on the floor in there! Terri worked on my costume a bit, adding a shirt, changing the belt, etc.

While Terri was looking for shoes for my costume, I looked around the dressing area a bit. Nothing exciting to report, I didn't get to touch anyone’s shirt or anything. But I did see a stack of photos on the counter of someone in a companion costume... was that you DG?

Finally the costume was ready, so out into the sun for a few quick pictures. Terri suggested I bring a camera on the day of the shoot so I could get a picture of me in my costume. She also said that the Browncoats have been well behaved and easy to work with. Then it was all over. Back to being me.

Now all I have to do is wait for July 12th to arrive!

Original post @ the official Firefly forum...