Aimee, I did a fly-by to the hospitality suite before Prom. I'd been at a sewing workshop all day, and I basically dropped in, said Hi, and waltzed out. I'm sorry I missed you.

Tom's been fed, and he's hanging here in Chez Zmayhem with SA and I. He has secured AmTrak tickets to LA, and he's staying over in SF tonight.

I think his stress level is down to silent screaming at this point.

We may take a walk in the park.

If y'all are lunching anywhere around here, call me please?

I'm home sick and decided to put the time to good use. Here's a set of links and directions for getting vids that we saw at the vid show this weekend, as well as other vids. I'll crosspost this to my LJ and put up a link in Fanfiction as well.

Vividcon is the annual vidders' con in Chicago; the vids shown there are among the best around.

Vividcon 2005 Premieres vids - A list of vids and links to where they can be downloaded. Part 1 and Part 2.

Club Vivid vids - here.

Other Premiering Vids - here.

Lord King Bad Vids - unashamedly cheesy vids. here.

Laura Shapiro's review of Scooby Road. Sisabet's review of Scooby Road (fantastic review, by the way).

Vividcon 2004 Destina links to and reviews premiering vids. Given how long ago this post was made, I cannot guarantee the links to vids are still good, but it does provide the vidder's names so you might be able to track some down. "Ordinary", "Valentine Heart", and "Two Words", which we saw on Saturday, were 2004 VVC vids.

Sundry other links

Laura Shapiro's web page. You'll have to email her directly for the password to download her vids. We saw "Ing", "Late Model Love", and *memfault* that great Xander vid to the Barenaked Ladies.

Here's Luck's web page. She did the "Superstar" Faith vid, and the Serenity vid we watched during the Prom.

Barkley's web page. Also passworded. She's done a bunch of SG-1 and SGA vids, as well as Babylon 5, Sports Night, and sundry others. Barkley and Destina did the "Copacabana" vid we saw on Saturday night.

Sisabet's vids. She made "Two Words", "Closer", and "Whatever". I also highly recommend "Cowboy", which is (for me) the ultimate Angel character vid.

Luminosity's vids. She made "Scooby Road", "The End of the World As We Know It", "Struggle", and "Whatever" (with Sisabet). "Scooby Road" is offline right now, but if you email her, she'll make it available somehow.

Wolfpup's vid page. She vids Firefly, Farscape, Buffyverse, and BSG.

Destina and Carol S.'s vids. Mostly SG-1 vids here. Passworded site, particularly recommended if you're an SG-1 fan.

Killa's vids (also Melina, T. Jonesy, Taselby, Carol S., and others). Killa vids damned near everything; she did that Alias vid to "This Girl is Taking Bets", and the Star Trek vid to "Knights of the Round Table". Also, this is where you can get the Star Trek version of "Closer" I mentioned a few times. All her vids are zipped and provided in both .avi and .mov formats.

and *memfault* that great Xander vid to the Barenaked Ladies.

"Some Fantastic."

Well, the weekend has been wonderful. Unfortunately, the week decided to play a nasty trick on me and give me two Mondays in a row. Anything that could go wrong today, so far, has.

I left my bag of Lush goodies along with the chocolates from Coco Bella in my original room. I realized that when I got back to the hotel after pasta at Deb's and asked about it at the front desk. Housekeeping was closed and they told me to check back in the morning. I went to bed, put out a sign to have breakfast delivered and slept the sleep of the just plain damn chock-full-o-Buffista-goodness.

The breakfast came later than expected, the argument and explaination with housekeeping and the front desk over the missing bag took longer than anticipated. They still couldn't find the bag. I finally gave up and caught a cab to Caltrain. Missed the train I wanted and got to the San Jose airport 10 minutes after my flight left. I'm on standby for the 2:40 flight to Denver and I won't get to Milwaukee until after 11pm. Worst of all, I am chocolateless when it is most needed! *shakes not-so-wee fist at the universe*GrrrArrg.

Glad to hear our Scola has found safe harbour at Zmayhem. My vanpool got to see his worried face when he came back without his card. We pretty much wanted to just hand him any of ours to help make it all OK again.

So much fun. So many gorgeous people wearing such pretty clothes. I didn't manage to spend as much time as I would have liked with any one of them, but had fun trying amidst all the joyful madness.

My throat is sending up messages that it's thinking about settling down to torment me with a nice long case of the Ick. Oh Joy. It's not really the sort of gift-that-keeps-on-giving that one likes to come home with. Couldn't I have gotten the keys to the transporter instead?

Deena's photos? Nope.

You were in there! Just in the ones that looked like ass from the shaky hands. I was not posting an assy Deb photo. Nuh and uh.

Consuela, thanks for the links. I loved Scooby Road, but missed the others.

Consuela, thanks for the links. On my "to-do" list is to send thanks to the creators, as suggested by Laura Shapiro. Also, I still have your book -- good intentions, path to hell and all that.

Yesterday, Epic and I were joking that for the next F2F we needed dance cards, because we missed spending time with some people with whom we would have liked to see more of -- however, I think that the space time continuum wouldn't allow me all the time I want to spend with Buffistas.

I have gotten a lot of joy out of fanvids in the last few years; it's a pleasure to share it.

Sparky, no worries. It's not like I don't know where you live. *g* Besides, I have Maggie's other book to lend you if you like.