Aria Giovanni Gets Things Cooking

Isn’t she also a BSc? When I was a much, much nerdier first year Biochemistry student at the University of Waterloo, she was my dream girl.

She’s still one of my faves, but I’m not as enthralled by her as I used to be. Regardless, she seems like a gal I’d really like to meet and hang out with.

In 2004, through a series of odd coincidences, I ended up meeting and talking to Aria for about 25 minutes. I was at Chicago’s Wizard World comic book convention. For some reason, she had a booth there and was signing autographs.

She took a picture of me and me funny T-shirt. When I turned to see where the flash came from… it was Aria. I was star struck and spent a few minutes looking through her wares and at her, uh, outfit, but after a few minutes I felt uncomfortable looking at her naked photos with her standing right there, so I decided to move on.

Thing was, I left my bags behind. Aria *personally* left her booth to find me, a overweight dude in jeans and a black T-shirt at a comic book convention (for those of you who don’t know, that might as well be a uniform). She found me 30 minutes later and handed back my bags.

I walked back to her booth with her, and we started talking first about what was in the bags, but then spreading in to current events and in particular the 2004 election. Aria did *not* seem like a bubblehead. She really did know what she was talking about. After a while we moved on to other topics, but all in all the thing that I remember was that she got up away from her booth, where she was making money, to find some dork who hadn’t purchased anything from her, and then stood around talking to him (still not at her booth) for a half hour about fairly intellectual topics.

I saw her the next year at the same place and she remembered me and my shirt and my bags, too. She gave me the bestest, boobiest hug I’ve ever gotten. That year, I bought something.