How to be chuffed but still cool

I love Dave Eggers, it's true. He's a hero of mine. So when I got to see him in person earlier this week at a charity screening of Where the Wild Things Are, I was so chuffed. Soooo chuffed! But like the time when I thought I saw Samuel L. Jackson in NYC when it was really just a wax statue of him outside the entrance to Madame Tussauds, I was as cool as a cucumber on the outside. But crazy fireworks on the inside. I mean, come on, that could've been Samuel L. Jackson just standing there on the sidewalk! Helen was with me. She remembers the nanosecond of excitement we shared.