what I did on my summer weekend
5 Jun 2007 04:13 am- 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'.