No, ass-grabbing here is just a "Hi, how are you?"

That might have been me. I'm not sure. It's a little scary how much of this weekend just blurred together, even the parts where I wasn't drunk. It was one big whirl of gorgeous, fun people.

Have now read all posts and am working on a meara.

It was probbably you smonster. I know it was in a conversation with you and julianna and... and there was talk of ass graabbing being unwanted - which led to someone apologizing for ass grabbing, and then the line about it being sort of 'hi how are you ' for the buffistas.

And reading Pete's whiteboard?

Still invisible (and inaudibly unfunny), except for a couple of fast, harried poses the first day or so in the hospitality suite.

Ah well. Same time, next year....

Second request: who took the picture of Lilibeth, in tiara? I'm about to sign off and get some work done and I promised Lilibeth I'd find and link or send it and I really really really do NOT want to have to wade back through all the photo collections. Anyone?

Also, did Scola get out and away last night, or was it this morning?

who took the picture of Lilibeth, in tiara

I tried to find it, but I have to head to the dentist. It was in an early link, and it was darkish- that's what I remember. It is someone whoe is talking much on the baord laura? maybe.

Deb, I checked out this morning. I'm waiting for Amtrak, which is delayed a few hours, but I'm all set.

It's hard to type long messages on my phone, so I'll give a too brief thanks to Deb, juliana and Perkins for helping me out, and a thank you to Hec, JZ and SA for helping me to cope emotionally.

And thanks to everyone else, too. You're all fantastic!

Next up: more F2Fage for me in LA!!!

All your Scola are belong to us!

The Lost & Found list. Can anyone put a name to these?

1. A white umbrella with (I think) the words "April Cornelle" written around it.

2. A pair of beige backless Xhilaration beaded wedge womens shoes.

3. A black baseball cap

4. A hardbound collected Tales of Winnie the Pooh, blue cover

5. A pair of low-heeled black strappy sandals, approximately a sixe 8.5 or 9

6. A tiara (claimed by Perkins)

7. Green beaded flats (claimed by Deena)

SA has, quite possibly, surpassed Shrift in fannish crackwhoredom.

I am beginning to think that might be true.

Gonna go hop in the shower, then me and David are gonna hit up a museum (because you have those here!) and meet the loverly juliana for lunch. I believe this counts as a frabulous day.

2. A pair of beige backless Xhilaration beaded wedge womens shoes.

Those are mine.

Home. Missing peeps. So far, no Ick, yaye? I left Ginger at the Atlanta airport with strict instructions to A) find her car B) drive carefully, and C) sleeeeep. Unpacking later. She's one of the few who can be sick and still funny.

There are no gorgeous funny foamy people here. How is that fair? On my final flight from Atlanta to Greensboro, I sat next to a cute young man, who apologized for not speaking English well. He's Piotr Kepinski, classical pianist, playing a local gig before heading to NYC for another. He'd been awake and in flight something like 20 straight hours. He'd make a fine Buffista...though I didn't tell him where I had spent the weekend, as I wasn't sure my emoting and hand-gestures were up to the task.

I am unreasonably (ahem) pleased to be the bear of very little brain for the board, so long as Fay is Piglet and Pete is Eeyore and the narrator. Possibly some of the other roles could be appropriately cast in future, but Mr. Reason proved himself variously a marvelous Eeyore, BDH, cat-herder, and infinitely patient. And oh yes, funny. Jilli is just the Jilliest, as I always knew she would be, and seeing her and JZ in a hat-off on the dance floor was a thrill. Prom was simply an overload of the foamy and fantastic. People shouldn't be able to wear colors like that and look that fabulous, right? Special powers, have Buffistas.

There are far too many people to thank: Deb, of course, for all the point work beforehand, being contact and pokesperson with the hotel, and for keeping the HS stocked. Others are due thanks for this too--I couldn't have afforded the trip had I not been able to skip the cost of restaurant meals. Deb also gets applause for booking the van and lift for the Bridge and Sausalito tour and dinner. Raq, Matt and Ginger get many props for repeated assembling, use, and disassembling of the lift. Nic and ND for the fantastic sound at Prom, Suela for bringing Laura Shapiro's vids to the HS on Saturday, and Laura herself to the Prom. All the localistas for the driving and the hosting and the tour-guiding.

Deb again for the damp but spectacularly-fooded BBQ (OMG--the food!), and the Monday night pasta supper. Matt for driving the smoosh-mobile to the DeYoung and the A&C exhibition, and for geeking as deeply as the rest of us over the art and the function and the line. See? Is too a synthesis of the Shaker function and Japanese form. Is! Suzi and Hec and JZ for hostage and tour-guiding and helping out-of-towners to explore and get to know SF and environs in ways only localistas can do.

Sooo many to thank for making the weekend so fabulous, and I'ma stop before they start the music and drag me, weeping in happy gratitude, offstage. One last personal thank-you, though, to KatieB for a Monday of gorgeous scenery and restorative contemplation, plus a chance to play with beads and baby kittens, and a bunk Monday night and a ride to the airport yesterday. Yesterday? Seems a week ago already. Not fair!

I love you all. There is no second sentence.