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I meet Anthony Stewart Head

    It was Saturday August 26, I was in Toronto Ontario, visiting relatives and such. I had previously heard that during the time I was visiting the Canadian National Sci-fi/Comic/anime expo convention (yeah big mother of a name) was going on. I totally loved anime so I was there no matter what. I had also found out that Jamer Marsters (Spike) Was supose to be there but he had cancelled. I was pretty upset to learn this because Spike is one of my favorite villans. Anya is still more evil (lol). Anyways, something better came along...... Anthony Steward Head (Giles) Giles is and will forever be one of my favorite characters on Buffy. In the last 2 seasons he's changed from a boring book guy to a heroic, musician. I loved his singing in season 4 very cool. So I dragged my mom and little sister to the convention, hopeing I'd get to meet or atleast see Anthony. It was very croweded and I had to wait at least an hour just to get into the thing. Which cost the three of us together almost $100. I didn't have very much money to begin with. I had about $40 spending money, and any experienced convention goer can roll their eyes now. I know it was stupid, I only bought some tapes and stuff. I was walking around looking for Anthony and I didn't see him, so I looked at the mag on the convention and found out he was comming on Sunday and I was leaveing on Sunday... so I was totally bummed. It wasn't the end of the world, but it was close. I just walked around looking at buffy stuff in a daze. They had the coolest Buffy stuff there.
    Then if it were god himself, they suddenly announced that Anthony Steward Head was comming in that day at 4:00 for a special signing. I was giddy with excitement, and my mom was moaning, cause we had to stay another few hours just so I could get his autograph. Anyways I stood in line at 3:55, I was happy not many people had lined up yet. I was behind 3 very hyper Buffy fans. I was happy to see people as into the show as I was. Well I waited and waited.. it was soon 4:30, where was he? The 3 girls ahead of me talked nonstop so at least I wasn't bored ar anything. I even bought an $8 picture of him to sign for me. My mom was getting kinda mad when 5:00 rolled around, and still no sign of him. Then if it were the devil himself, they announced that is was gonna be $18 just to get his autograph. I could have died, I had no money left at all. I was again bumming totally. Da da da super mom to the rescue, she found a 20 and I was again saved from not getting his autograph. Finally after the long wait he showed up. I would have thought he'd walk in the back with body guards, but he came right to his booth through the crowds. Right beside my sister, who I yelled out to telling her to touch him. She was so nervous haveing him walk by her she ran away. Anyways, I was praticially shakeing to death by the time I got there I didn't know what to do. I spelled out my name really fast, stood there in awe. Shook his hand, yelled out thankyou very fast and kind of ran away. I almost fainted form the excitement. It was one of the coolest things I have ever experienced, I know he's just a regular guy who's on my fav tv show, but it still seems special. His autograph pic is in my room framed where it's gonna stay.
I hope my friends never read this cause for the first 2 weeks of school this is all they heard about.