My minor amount of recognition on campus pales in comparison to some of the people we’ve got going to Humber. It recently got out that one of the first years in Rez this year is none other than Scott Paterson, who played Johnny DiMarco on Degrassi.
He’s actually going into my program – Film and Television Production – and was up on our floor last night while I was out downtown having dinner with Stephanie and her friends. Apparently he saw my little plaque beside my door (which says my name and my program) and wanted to meet me, but I was out. I ended up bumping into him once I got back and we introduced ourselves. He seems like a pretty cool guy.
He mentioned that he’s in section 3, and I’m pretty sure I’m in section 4, so I don’t think we’ll have the same schedule once classes start up, but we could share a class or two, and I don’t know if the sections get scrambled for second semester. In any case I’ll probably be seeing a fair bit of him in the future.
I’m not as starstruck as everyone else seems to be, probably because I don’t watch Degrassi (not because I dislike it, but because one of the characters – a gay one at that – reminds me strongly of Chris) and also because I’m pretty good at being calm around “celebrities.” They’re just normal people who happen to have a job that gets them a fair amount of exposure.
And anyways, I’m sure he wouldn’t appreciate it if everyone who wanted to be friends with him only wanted to be friends because he was on TV. I wouldn’t. If I was like him, I’d appreciate it if there were people who were not in the loop on what I’d done and wanted to be friends simply because I seemed like a cool guy and was in the same course (and therefore shared the same interests), as the situation is.
If I bump into him again, cool; if not, I hope he doesn’t get hassled too bad here at Humber.
