i meant to write a LeVar Burton update after meeting him on set of reading rainbow, but as it was kind of a hectic week, i haven't really gotten around to it. actually, there's not much to say about him, but since i spent the whole summer telling people how excited i was to meet him, i thought i'd let everyone know how it went. the most interesting things about levar i learned shortly before filming with him, which are that his name is short for Levardis, which is also his father's name, and that his wife's email address is Kunta's wife @something.com. i've also realized that meeting minor celebrities is totally uninteresting unless they're hot. the first day we filmed with levar, i didn't even end up being introduced to him, but after having to report this to my friends at dinner that night, i vowed that i would at least say hi to him the next day. and i did, but it was only because we ended up being alone together as he sat in one of those director-type chairs on a break next to the monitor i was logging time codes on. so really, it was more of one of those "we're in the same place and it'd be rude not to acknowledge you" introductions, pretty much the same as i'd do with any crew member. he was very nice though, and we discussed the unseasonable weather (one of my favorite conversation topics). generally, i had an awesome time that day on set, and it kind of rekindled my previously wavering interest in working in production.