Buffy ,'Chosen'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
It sounds like the party was a great success, vw.
I am editing a 144-page document written by someone who believes if one word is good, two are better; never grasped the need to put a comma after the initial phrase; and doesn't know the difference between that and which. Kill me now.
The party was a great success. Unfortunately, something didn't sit well with me (it could have been the getting drunk and not eating enought), and I spent from 3am till 10am puking my guts out. Not as much fun as the party, but I guess totally worth it.
Yuck. Do you have any ginger around the house? Ginger tea or other ginger products usually help.
I don't think so. I'm feeling better...eating potato skins as I type. It was really bizzare.
Oh my gosh!
vw, I just realized I might be able to see you next weekend. beathen is coming down on Saturday, which means we will have transportation. We'll need directions to wherever you are and a way to get in contact with you. Assuming she's not averse to meeting more than one Buffista in a day.
Oy. Been there, and it's no fun at all. Glad you're feeling better.
P-C, if you're talking to the gathering-at-the-convention crowd, details about the convention can be found here, and the hotel is at 200 W. Big Beaver Road in Troy -- hotel's page is here. It would be mucho excellent to see you both.
PC, also, there is talk of a Buffista-ish breakfast on Saturday morning. When I know more details, I'll e-mail you. Also, I'll e-mail you my cell number so you can get in touch with us.
Pictures are almost uploaded to yahoo. Will share in a moment.
Oh, and I'm really sorry I missed the math talk. I've only recently gotten a grip on the concept of i, and I'm still struggling with the usage -- that is, I get why we need a square root of negative 1, but I'm a little unclear on how the whole a + bi thing works. Guess I could go read up on it.
The thing that finally made the concept click for me (after quite some time of going, "The hell? -1 doesn't have a square root. It's inherent in the nature of squaring!") was reading about the history of numbers and math. Actually getting a feel for how people struggled with the concept and why they needed to come up with something to call it made it make a lot more sense. I really think a little math history could be a lot of help in math classes. Generally, it gets laid down like everything from arithmetic to differential equations would be quite obvious if you were only smart enough, without ever mentioning that the stuff that's hard for the students to understand was probably tough enough for everyone to understand that it was centuries before someone came up with a way to deal with it.
That, and I don't think anyone ever taught me about complex numbers. I kind of had to pick it up through osmosis (or diffusion, since isn't osmosis only for water?).
Pictures of Emily's party are here [link] I'll label them shortly. There are also pictures of me with my new hair.