I guess I should concede that I'm not going to make it out to see Nilly. Finances. Bummer.

If Nilly's around- INSENT!!!!!!!

does the dance of hopefully hosting Nilly in Boston

(er. I apologize for the appearance of gloating. I'm really not. That sucks, Liese.)

Allyson, I am going to try to make it to Krav on sunday if I can (ita, i need to know where Krav is), or possibly meet you at the Krav center after the lesson for the Sunday at the pier stuff, so I can just take Nilly home from there.

I could also not, if you have other plans and bringing her to my house later works better. Just let me know.

Allyson, I'd like to get a copy of the tour schedule, please. There's still the ghost of a chance of me making it to Boston for that leg.

If anyone who's doing the NorCal leg of Nilly's visit hasn''t got emails from me, and needs them, please let me know, so I can add you. I've sent out a four-pager with various peoples' schedules, who is staying with whom, cell phone and hotel numbers, etc. I'll update again next week.

And no Bruce for Nilly, because California's already solidly in the Democratic camp. Bruce - and Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks and a whole lot of others - are indeed doing an extraordinary tour, but the swing states are the ones being played: Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania. The right thing to do, but we don't get Bruce. So we'll see about taking Nilly to the Fillmore for Aimee Mann, if she'd like to go.

For those that were interested, here are a few random pictures from the party.

I'm not posting in Press since this was not a Buffista event exclusively--but feel free to share.

I somehow managed to not notice this when I met her in person, but Nutty has a lovely neck.

I'm up for Aimee Mann if Nilly is.

t tragic confession

I've never been to the Fillmore.

t /tragic confession

Also -- Deb, I'm'a try to take that Friday off, and possibly leave early on Thursday. Let me know what/when/where you need me for pre-Nilly cleaning and prepping.

eta:

I somehow managed to not notice this when I met her in person, but Nutty has a lovely neck.

Dude, are you blind? There is no part of Nutty that isn't stone gorgeous. Head to toe, she's a knockout.

Nutty and Emily always seem to get this delayed reaction, for some reason: two exquisitely beautiful women. And Kristin, the Wild Rumpus pics are intense good fun.

Question for the NorCal Nillyvisitors: would anyone be interested in a teeshirt? I'm thinking of doing one at cafepress, that people could order. Nilly! The Event! And if anyone has any ideas to that end, share, please, because graphic design is about as much my field as expertise as is, oh, quantum physics, or High Mathematics, or surfing the pipeline.

JZ, you rock muchly - I'm going to ask Nilly if she'd like to spend an hour getting a pedicure, so she can have pretty toes with which to try on all the shoes she wants to try on, and Friday morning looks good for it if she does; Laura and Deena arrive together at SFO on Friday, but not until 3:24 in the afternoon. Speaking of which, since everyone will be here Friday night, I'm happy to put together a meal for anyone who wants to come and hang out with Nilly, who will be following the excellent Jewish Sabbath imperative of relaxing with friends that night after sundown.

I might try to sketch something up: the first idea that comes to mind is a concert-style Nillyfest 2003 Un-Unamerican Tour (A Minearverse-Buffistas joint production) t-shirt, with all the cities of the tour listed on the back and the Nillyfest bit in the Firefly font.