That was just exhuasting.

though I may be coming down with something, frankly.

I think it's the bird flu.

I just stocked up on kleenex and gatorade. I'll share. I'm almost out of soups though.

You saying I laid an egg?

Shush. I'm writing a review.

Please include the part where I did not pass out.

Yay! Now all we need to do is work on ita.

though I may be coming down with something, frankly.

Just as long as you're not falling down.

Because then I'm going to think we've all got some weird virus.

Okay. So Tim wore jeans, a blue shirt, and a sort of tweed kind of jacket. And his new glasses which frame his face well. The Manolo, he would have approved of Tim's Bruno Magli shoes.

John picked us up. I went through the gate. I can't tell you what I saw, as a non-disclosure agreement pops out of the code box and you have to sign it before entering.

On the way, Tim said, "so what am I doing?" a whole lot. Then we got to the thing, and the conference people treated my like I Was Very Important. The tables had turned. I could make insane demands, and they would have bent to my will. I did not take advantage of this.

Oh, this isn't about me. Right.

So the thing started after two people molested Tim with a mike wire thing and I was like, OMG SO JEALOUS.

There was about 250 people there. We saw that they all had these little sheets to grade Tim's performance, and John snapped, "DO NOT TELL HIM ABOUT THAT UNTIL AFTER."

Okey dokey, then.

Tim started the class by explaining a bit about story breaking and asking for a show of hands for which show they'd like to break. It was a pretty even vote between Firefly and Angel, so Tim suggested a crossover in which Mal and Angel fuck.

I would like to state here for the record, that Tim stole that idea from me.

But they decided to break an Angel. Tim took suggestions from the class, and shot people down gently, explained why, and moved on. It took about an hour to get the theme, and write the teaser.

The plot was to occur during season 2 of Angel, and it was decided that Phantom Dennis would become corporeal taking the form of Cordy's Dream Man (sort of like the episode when Jan made up George Glass on the Brady Bunch) and get to romance her for one day.

Lots and lots of audience participation involving a sound guy running around with a microphone. Tim, who ordinarily is honeypie, played a sadistic game of choosing a raised hand from the far left, then the front right. Eventually, the guy with the mike said, "I HATE you" into the mike, and then ge was broken and people just yelled suggestions.

Tim ran it like a real writer's room, only about 4 notches kinder, and they managed to break the teaser and two acts before he took questions.

He spilled a sooper seekrit plot that never came to be on Firefly, and talked about Joss humping a couch. This will be available on the extended version of the DVD.

At the end, Tim went outside to smoke, and about two dozen hopeful writers surrounded him and John and just stared at them. Which was skeery and I thought that they were going to kill them and drink their blood, but then I just realized it was awe, and they started asking a lot of questions.

I passed a note to John during the Q&A, when Tim was being HUGELY charming and the whole audience wanted to lick his brain:

When he does this, I get a terrible crush. He's adorable.

There was a girl outside GUSHING on a cell about talking to Tim. SO CUTE. That was me once. SAD.

I will now open this up to Q&A.

So I killed the thread dead, then, right? Look. It was a five minute review. I haven't slept in like, 24 hours. I'm tired.

WHEN I CAME HERE THERE WAS NOTHING ON THE BOARD.