what I did on my summer weekend
5 Jun 2007 04:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigou- Determined that yes, we remain FUNGIBLE.
- Inducted Zania into the Hall of Fungibility.
- Realized that I am helpless when faced with starving artists, especially if the adjective is damn near literal.
- Had the following conversation, as I perused my List of Where We're At, checking it against volumes 8 of this, 9 of that, 15-19 of this, etc...
clerk: *grinning* An entire list! You must have kids!
me: Uhm, no. I have a husband. - Had the dubious thrill of seeing not just the distant horizon light up with a storm, but the ENTIRE. FRICKING. SKY. -- with tornadoes.
- Confirmed that if a patio exists within a block of a convention center, just look for me there. Day, or night.
- Realized that I am also helpless when faced with nifty new seamstress challenge.
- Had to bonk myself in the head until I remembered that first, many projects a la chez me await finishing first.
- Made solemn promise that from now on, I make things with POCKETS, or at least make a matching BAG. Damn it.
- Found out I still need to get a mechanic to look at the rear struts/shocks. Stupid, scary, strange noise...
- Refused to take a computer with me. Any computer.
- Obtained enough japanese-language material to make CP a very, very happy man.
- Turned four friends into whores. Woo! Go me!
Including coming home to find work still waiting, whiny emails from some asshole lacking even the good sense of a broken canopener (and is about as coherent), a trunk full of luggage I should probably unpack... erm, sometime this week..., and my passports. Though I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would think it necessary to stamp "CANCELLED MAY 2007" on a passport that expired in 1989. Really, people, do you think anyone would be fooled by the picture?
OH. And, for the first time ever [insert drumroll here], I was not only glomped but permitted the glompage (despite Zan's utterly baffled expression afterwards). But the girl who asked was just so adorable -- she came up to maybe my shoulder at most, and came running up with her arms out only to skid to a halt (and yes, she did skid, a little), and asked in a squeaky voice, "may I please have a huuuuuuuuggg?" I was so taken aback, I could only say, "uh, okay," and even with my arms out, her arms still ended up around my waist. Then she skittered off and I turned to see her doing it to another Naruto-person, again with the arms thrown wide and skidding to a halt just outside the personal space... An odd "don't violate the space" and a "pweeese hug me" combination.
Don't be getting any ideas, though, folks. Just sayin'.
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Date: 5 Jun 2007 10:29 am (UTC)So. Going into the pimp biz, eh? *snigger*
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Date: 5 Jun 2007 05:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, I imagine the look on my face was a definite "uh..." with no idea how to react, really.
I mentioned to Sihaya later that no one took pictures while I was towing
the SpawnHinata around the dealer's room (as Neji), and Sihaya said, "do you not realize how strong your don't-photograph-me vibes are?" *whistles nonchalantly* I knew I should've bribed Duo into being the tourguide...no subject
Date: 20 Jun 2007 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Jun 2007 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Jun 2007 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Jun 2007 03:14 am (UTC)Of course, I didn't much like the guy in question, but the point stands.no subject
Date: 5 Jun 2007 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Jun 2007 03:12 am (UTC)Btw, I'm holding your socks hostage.
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Date: 5 Jun 2007 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Jun 2007 03:20 am (UTC)– adjective
(esp. of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
I can't find my room key from last year (which ended up in my suitcase and has travelled with me to every con since, natch), but it states at the top, "the most fungible reward plan". Last Akon, we were sitting around at dinner and for some reason I had my room key out and thought to ask, "so what the hell does fungible mean?"
Much discussion ensued.
Duo: *looks blank*
Kage: I can google it! *whips laptop out*
Gina: I have no idea.
CP: Sounds like a VD. "Not tonight, honey, my fungible's flaring up again."
Zan: It deals with securities.
Sihaya: I prefer CP's version.
Eventually, we did determine Zan was right; cash, for instance, is fungible, because you can convert it easily from one form (cash) into another form (goods). Doesn't change the fact that the word itself -- fuuuuungible -- sounds kinda, well, obscene.
Oh, and we invoked you on Saturday night. I tried to explain the whole thing about Wufei and Thor (to Gina and Sihaya and Zan), but I'm afraid I just don't have your storytelling skills, your breathless delivery, or your recollection of the details. So, instead, we all agreed you simply have to tell that story (with any others) at ycon. That's one panel I wouldn't miss for hell or high water.
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Date: 6 Jun 2007 04:07 pm (UTC)Oh, THOR! I believe I may need to refresh myself on that dear story...
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Date: 6 Jun 2007 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Jun 2007 05:08 am (UTC)Support the museums and the libraries and the theaters, support the artists and the writers and the actors, because what they do is something only a few can, and they do make the world a more beautiful place.
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Date: 7 Jun 2007 02:04 am (UTC)*whistles innocently*
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Date: 7 Jun 2007 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 Jun 2007 07:53 pm (UTC)(I seem to get this kind of thing a lot. Weird.)