Um. Pete, see how you said 'Hey, come up to Seattle before you go back to Cairo'? ... Well, I do hope that you weren't kidding.
So
totally not kidding. We look forward to having you, if you pardon the expression. Me & Jilli will enjoy introducing you to Seattle.
Added bonus; you can get to meet Princess Tickybox.
Yay!
Numfars her ass off
House of Reason AND Princess Tickybox! (Whom I feel like I've already met.)
...now to approach employers wrt taking unpaid leave for a week.
gulps.
- I* get Fay for FIVE NIGHTS.
SF and Seattle, we are the luckies this year, you bet. Except that I want Plei and Paul and MiniPlei, damn it.
Yes, I am exhausted, which would be why I sound like a cross between Yoda and The Beaver.
Right there with you, Deb. Plei, Paul, Lillybean, Erin, Jon and FAQwife, plus others, like some of the LAistas who can't come, and others still...Daisy Jane, Dana, shrift, bonbon...
What can I say. I'm bouncing and squeeing at all the old friends I get to see again and the ones I get to meet for the first time. But I'm greedy--I want everybody to come!
sob -- Erin is not coming, remember. Sobsobsob.
t smites Erin's employers
Silly people scheduling things on our F2F weekend.
Bev, my Paul/Plei thing is because I called Seattle lucky.
I'm still pissy over Erin's graduation and Jon's niece's wedding and SA graduating and things, damn it.
Oh Seattle is lucky, no doubt about that. But this is yet another time I, personally, since it's all about me, am thwarted in meeting most of these folks, and although I did meet Jon in DC, I've not met his lovely FAQwife.
Not that I'm not over the moon about seeing my beloved SFistas again, plus those from Florida, Georgia, Ohio, all over the east and midwest whom I've met before, and meeting juliana, Jilli, Pete, Fay, and still more others for the first time. I'm greedy, greedy, greedy. I want ALL my peeps. In one place at the same time. As I say, greedy.
and SA graduating
SA (who is slounging on my couch next to me as I type) is also sad. Not, of course, sad about graduating and getting the hell out of Berea, but sad that graduation conflicts with the F2F.
Speaking for myself (Steph), the bitterness emanating from her is almost making the paint peel off my walls. It's scary, yo.