An Evening with Meryl

I have an American Express card and part of the perks is occasionally getting advance tickets for various events prior to the public release date. I get an email notification when they have new events that are part of the "Front of the Line" option.

Last night, I got an email about "An Evening with Meryl Streep at the ROM". Sounded very intriguing as I am a huge, HUGE Meryl fan - not stalking type, but love her, a lot! It appears that she is going to be in town for a sit down interview with a columnist, from the Globe and Mail, to talk about her body of work, her difficulties and responsibilities with fame and the nature of celebrity today and a "lively" Q&A session. It's an evening event and seeing as how Corwin only wants me after he goes to bed at night, I didn't think that it was going to be feasible to go. However, I checked with Grandma next door, and she's willing to take him and try putting him to sleep at her house so I can go out. PB is going to be away at work. I told her that if Corwin doesn't end up sleeping and just wants to play that I'll deal with it when I get home. Meryl is worth the potential grief.

With that settled, I logged into the AMEX site to purchase tickets only to see "SOLD OUT". Whaaaaaaaat? It was only released to the Front of the Line this morning and both the VIP and general admission have been sold out. Wahhhhh!! NOOOOO!! This can't be true!

Then suddenly, it dawned on me that I have a good contact at the ROM, who is in charge of special events. I emailed him and we're now hoping that he'll be able to assist in us in getting out to see Meryl.... Networking hopefully paying off!

I'll keep you posted!