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To all my friends who see Twilight: When you see a curly-haired, female EMT wheeling some guy away on a gurney, think, "that's Michelle, an awesome EMT and firefighter in real life."

She's a former co-worker of mine, as well as my current co-worker's wife. She joined a movie extra company as sort of a hobby. She also a children's librarian and trains for marathons in her spare time.

She's also how I learned about Twilight. Imagine the following scene:

Cast: Ryan--my co-worker.
Me-- me.

Ryan (just putting down his lunchbox: Yeah, Michelle got this audiobook that's apparently really popular. I listened to part of it on the way in to work. It's about this girl and vampires. She moves to Forks.

Me: Forks, Washington??? (Remembers barren, treeless hills far from either sea or mountain. Colorless town. Good pancakes. Tries to imagine angsty teen vampires in Land O' Loggers. Can't.)

I type "forks vampires" into Google, and discover the book. I snicker a lot and laugh at Ryan for having to listen to it.

Some time later, I next heard of the book when Ryan told me they were making a movie out of "that Forks book," and Michelle was going to be an extra.

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Today's batch of synchronicity has brought me -- through Wil Wheaton and Keffy -- a wealth of Star Trek fan music videos. Considering they all have almost exactly the same clips, I think it just goes to show how editing and music really make the story.

Star Trek meets Monty Python:

Broke Trek (In which Spock is awkward an cute)

Star Trek meets Nine Inch Nails (In which Spock is awkward and a rapist)

And one last one, for those who like to imagine the Enterprise crew as sailing through the stars finding ever newer and stranger drugs to do: