Well, i'm at the airport. I've heard from Tongster and it turns out he's going to be late by a few hours. In the meantime, i'm waiting for Jocelyin to arrive.

I'm on an internet kiosk that charges $5 for the first 15 minutes (highway robbery!) and has a very strange keyboard.

Will attempt to update later for those of you unable to attend if you're interested.

Hiya. I'm interested.

right right, here we go...

well i skipped my last class to go to the hotel
and i was very much a nervous llama!
i got to the elevators and i called amy cause i forgot what room they're in, and then just as amy tells me who i should shortly see in the lobby, three girls approach me, and it occurs to me that i know them... holy crap i know these people! only i've never met them before!! what do i do now?! ::brain freeze, nervous smiles, HI-ing::
and we all go up to their room, and it's all gets better after that.

they all just got back from lunchish.
rain in her marvy hat, xine (she's been teasing me cause i din't know who she was ) and miss mikka


then amy comes back to the room


and promptly shows off her cold weather gear:

hat scarf gloves combo couresy xine
winter coat a la beezeee

rain relaxing


mr. saint nightwalker pops in for free hugs:


we take a field trip to office depot and target.
on the way, we encountered the mary tyler moore statue!

walker establishes that she is, in fact, not ticklish.

back at the hotel, i tried on rain's vintage hat:

nifty eh?

mikka discovers CHEEZY POOFS and RANCH at the same time!!

yummy!

circus and danyellia and ivan arive at this juncture

here's circus and danyellia chillin out:

(sorry my camera skills are crap)

arvin (did i get his name right? i'm horrible with names...) and walker geeking out on the floor about the wireless networks or something something

at this point everyone goes into severe board withdrawl.
"i need a computer! what's happened?! aaahhhhh..."
hehehe...

and it appears ivan is a vampire, or at least a yeti, as he can't be caught on camera:


so we after we were all mostly there, amy and xine go off to see the pixies and the rest of us went off in search of foods. we ended up at chevy's (fresh mex).
and i'm SOOOoooo sad this pic didn't turn out. the look on walker's face is sooo funny.
but the quote is:
i was never afraid of alcohol before...

walker and his brain sized margarita!

and much to my dismay, i seem to have forgotten to take more pictures at any point after that!

so no pics of maure or better ones of circus or jouni (sp?) or lucy or davey or the restaurant or
but fear not, i shall do better tomorrow evening.

things of note:
•rain has lists
•mikka has the cutest sheep purse ever
that's right, it's a sheep! baa!!
•we are all so geeky
•amy was most excited by the shopping cart escalator at target, tehe
•dinner conversation ranged from teaching creationism, to really great high school teachers, to supposed yet non-existant hula hoop movies, to how to make things explode in your microwave/how to make napalm. so yeah really just an ordinary board day
•llama!!

aww, looks like fuuuuuuuun...

Fuck I'm jealous.

*looks longingly at his car; thinks about saying 'screw all this' and hitting Minnie by sunset*

*sigh*

do it do it do it!!!

they're still selling memberships!!

you can crash w/ me!

(dude, you'll get a lady in your bedroom! That's better than the last hotel I was at! go for it!)

*starts scheming*

Oh fuckityfuckityfuck. Wifey just gave me a thumbs up to make the trip. Holy surprise; now I actually have to figure out if I can make this happen...

Okay, now I need to move quick. It's an eight hour drive for me. If I come up tonight, stay the night, and leave in the morning, will I get to see everyone? I don't care about any of the conference events at this point; I just want to get to meet the posse.

I'll check the FG website for hotel info, but I could really use some directions and info about where everyone's at an maybe some phone numbers and stuff...

Help me, pleeeeeeeze!

im leaving in 2 minutes.....
see everyone in about 9 hours
my cell is 2173701312


yay!

*just looked at the FG page*

Arrrrrrgh, the Anansi Boys reading is tonight? That could throw a kink into my plan, unless everyone is planning to go out or do something afterward...

I didn't get spousular approval for the conference fee; just for the trip... *sniff sniff*

Looks like everyone is having fun...Amy and Xine went to go see the pixies? Like the band? Or does Mpls have live actual pixies?

aahh! sorry i had to go to work quick.

rickey!
you really can stay at my place!!
i don't charge much

and their doing one day memberships at the door for FG!

i don't know directions tho...
email me, i can give you my address for to mapquest it?

Just sent email, you wonderful patron llama you.

Gah, why must everything be so complicated? My bank card/Visa just expired, so I'll be making the cross-country trip without cash or ATM access. Which is such a smart thing to do.

"Do you take Discover?" shall be my pre-ordering manta for the weekend...

yaaay rickey's coming to viiissiiiiit
::does discreet chair dance so co-workers don't notice::

Like the band. Those two were geeked about it weeks and weeks ago. Looks great, Anna, thanks for sharing and keep it coming!

aye aye sir!

i'm just all sorts of anxious to get my shirt tonite

oh. this is weird, just before i got up, i dreamt that i re-read my post and then added to 'things of note' that circus has this really cool alien head hologramy scarf that she made and that i wish i'd gotten a pic of it for ya.
yeah and then i actually did wake up and re-read my post and was quite confused.

so anyway circus has this really cool scarf that you guys should see!

so...does this mean that rickey's already on the road?

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Originally posted by JP:
Like the band. Those two were geeked about it weeks and weeks ago. Looks great, Anna, thanks for sharing and keep it coming!

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A ha. I'm going to see them in December.