Well, I survived two four hour car trips with the object of my affections, just the two of us...when Friday night she had "officially" become girlfriends with the girl she's been dating. Sigh.

But, I mostly had a good time at the big lesbian softball tournament. AND, I even ended up participating in the after-dark naked slip n slide! (It was not an actual slip n slide, it was a tarp that was like, ten feet by 30 feet. And lesbians lined up on either side hooting and hollering and helping people not slide right off the sides...) Wasn't sure I wanted to but glad I did. Fun with friends. Amusingly, a friend's wife saw me and came over and was like "wait, you went down the slip n slide? I missed it! Go again!" and my friends thought she was hitting on me, which I didn't realize, so they were like "OMG why did you tell her no??" Hah. Anyway, the bunch of us didn't stay up super late, and instead went back to our hotel and watched a bunch of American Ninja Warrior. And my friend's team got second place in the tournament!

Also just booked a trip home to Indy and will drive up to a friend's wedding in Ann Arbor.

Home again after working volunteer management at a small Con. Like - attendance was 500 people, small. The mission non-profit behind the Con is inclusivity in every form possible. Which I love and support. The focus of this Con is Myths and Legends - taking modern day Sci Fi that could some day inspire myths and legends. The panels included Cosplay for any Body, Severus Snape - It's all about me, Chainmaille 101, Epic Rap Battles of Literature, and on and on. There was also Karaoke Roulette and Blanket Forts.

Last night we got invited to a late night party in the Con room. My friend B and I went up, mainly for the booze as the hotel bar closed at 9pm. Turns out it was a Klingon party. No one was cosplaying, but just about everyone there, except us, spoke Klingon and pretty much out geeked the majority of the geeks I have ever met. We stayed for a bit and then headed downstairs to shoot the shit with some others in a language I understood.

I spent a bunch in the vendor room, including ordering my first custom corset. The majority of my purchases were either art or jewelry. I wanted to buy from the authors, but I have no time to read anymore - too much reading for school. Next year...next year I am going to try to resist the other tables and concentrate on the authors.

Corset FTW. Custom is best!

Do you ever stare at your inbox and think, There is no way I can engage with this crap today?

Every damn day.

Hell yes, Zen. And then I think about taking a "sick" day. And then I remind myself that it would just be even worse tomorrow with twice the emails waiting for me. ...but for the moment, my alarm went off 20 minutes ago and I'm still lying in bed.

I am no longer on vacation, which seems unfair. Instead, I have a ton of stuff to do that needs to be done, and I don't wanna do it.

The focus of this Con is Myths and Legends - taking modern day Sci Fi that could some day inspire myths and legends.

Holy cow, Suzi, I want go to this Con! All the topics are fascinating.

And how wonderful that you are doing volunteer management. You never know where it might lead.

The vol. manager for Awesome Con now works as the head of volunteer fulfillment for Disneyworld. No lie! She coordinates the internal staff volunteer function. Employees register their volunteer hours and the orgs they help get cash donations. It's an amazing venture and a job my friend would never have dreamt up.

It could be a second career for you...if you enjoy that sort of thing, of course.

Sorry for the relationship bummer, meara, but yay for the nekkid fun.

Zen, I so deeply feel you on the email thing. I spend entirely too much time 'organizing' my email as a way to avoid actually addressing the content. Blergh.

Was going to meara, but I keep getting interrupted. From what I recall:

Sounds like you managed to have a pretty fun weekend after all, meara, I'm glad.

beekaytee, super-impressed with your recording/documenting and standing up for yourself.

Zen, good luck with your upcoming may-need-a-recording situation (and your inbox)!

Suzi, that sounds like an awesome con!

Trying to get some paperwork dealt with for my mom to continue getting some help from the county. Paperwork is kind of late (what can I say, we were busy with all the hospitalizations in July), so I thought I'd better fax rather than mail it, because they're supposed to be calling her today. Except that, though the paperwork says you can fax it in, there's no fax # listed anywhere. Call 3 different numbers and, after a half hour on hold, finally get a fax #...and our fax machine is on the fritz. Oh well, she'll just have to tell them we mailed it today when they call. Can't say I didn't try.