I will mention that I am fiorituranotte

Thank you for saying that! I knew that was a Buffista name, and you probably even identified yourself in an LJ post, or in a Bitch post, but I could not remember, and I felt like a dope!

I figured you knew who I was based on the couple of drabbles I posted.

Yeah! That's where you identified your LJ name! Sheesh -- like I said above, my memory is sucking right now -- sorry!

Ok, I'm feeling the need to take another stab at lj again. I've friended the folks who mentioned their names in this thread, that I hadn't already friended. We'll see how this goes. (My lj name is the same as my board name, btw.)

Brenda, aren't you brendalu on LJ?

I anticipate this being a monster post, so please bear with me.

After a lovely, if very long and I-was-exhausted-when-we-started drive home with DX. The already very large degree of "can we all just move into the hotel?" that I have had since this morning in increasing.

I love having everybody's meat-space-ness in my head now, rather than just words in a box. I'm glad that other people are having the same feelings. I am, though, sitting here on the couch mentally curling up into a little ball from all the nice things people are saying. You guys are very good on the ego (the hat, btw, is so full of itself that there will be no living with it). I do want badly to meet Plei now, though.

Let me say outright, that the Buffistas are foamy, and nice (except when they shouldn't be because everybody nice all the time would be like Stepford. I mean, in general), and my single favorite group of people on the planet.

Other people have hit most of the highlights, so I'll just add what I don't remember seeing talked about:

• If no one else has done it, I move that Billytea(William! [meatspace names? Also wicked cool]) post his zoo photos when he gets them developed.
• Absinthe? Good stuff, if taken slowly.
• The GropeMobile outing on Sunday night was great on many levels. Kristin, aparet from being a wonderful human being, is also very graceful, and Buffistas are great people to see monuments with, especially if there aren't other people around, so we can openly discuss abducting members of the Executive Branch and taking them to the FDR memorial. Oh, and the t-shirt is here.
• JSw, I didn't manage to get ahold of your book this morning, and I would really like to write something in it. You want me to send leaf or, if you'd send it to me, I promise to write something other than "have a great summer" and send it back promptly)

Seriously, though, how soon can we do this again?

3 other things:

Drew--I was looking at the photos, and you spelled my name the way sane people do (which is understandable). I spell it "Abi". And, hugs.

I am officially volunteering to update the facebook. Maybe using F2F photos as a starting point, if that's alright with people.

On scheduling next year, moving it earlier may be a problem for teachers, as well as students.

And so, I will revert to my normal (both on- and off-board) position of sitting here listening, and nodding vigorously. I will hopefully do so more vocally, now that I feel like I know people better.

Buffistas rock. It bears repeating.

t tacklehugs Abi

Yeah! That's where you identified your LJ name! Sheesh -- like I said above, my memory is sucking right now -- sorry!

My memory has been about the same lately. No problem.

DebetEsse! You looked wonderful in the pictures. I missed you at the finale party.

I am home, and definitely suffering from the dreaded F2Flu.

I am so sad right now about how short the weekend was and how many people I didn't get to talk to and how many people I did get to talk to that I really wanted to spend just days and days with.

Everything this weekend was larger than life, all glitz and glitter and feathers! And by the way? Anyone up thread that hinted they “aren’t really that pretty”? LYING. Like Teppy said. Who is, btw, one of the foamy.

Seriously, male and female, all ages…the Buffistas are amazing. There is a kind of beauty that transcends simple face and hair and body, that is pure kinetic energy crackling--a personality too big to be contained in the body. You people are vivid. Vivacious. Amazing. I have never felt so lucky to be a part of a group as I did by the end of that night. There is a generosity to the Buffistas, and I’m not just talking about financially or emotionally (though that too was as apparent as it always is). There is a generosity of affection, as well. A willingness to hug and be hugged, to be comfortable enough to smooch away that pesky extra candy or to pile together like a litter of puppies just ‘cause it’s fun. Likewise, there is a respect for boundaries for the people who do not want the physical affection that is without judgment or censure. It just isn’t a phenomenon I have ever seen before, and I adored it. Add to that the undeniable sexiness of the Buffista braiiiiinnnns, and…wow.

I have so many wonderful memories, and I too am afraid to start listing them here since I know I am going to forget to list some here, but I think I will try anyway.

I will continue it in the next post, however, as this one is getting massive.

To be continued...

Absinthe? Good stuff, if taken slowly.

Damn! I missed this. Love me some absinthe.

tacklehugs Abi

t Jumps on the pile.