In doing so, I mentioned segregation, and Nilly looked at me and said "why?". I paused, no one had ever said that to me before. People just sort of accepted it as a part of history, and I had never had to articulate why segregation happened. It was a bit of a mindfuck for a second.

Whoa. That's...something.

boo!, but yay cilantro)

Huh. In between the "boo" and the "cilantro," you seem to have typed some gibberish.

Ha! The Cilantro thing came up at the Kosher Chinese place in Brookline. Did she look under Coriander?

She did, but coriander is also not in the dictionary.

Dinner was fun. We stayed and talked and laughed until they had locked the doors. Nilly is very huggy and got a number of fantastic gifts, which i will leave it to the givers to post about. I'm SO GLAD I went.

What sort of impression do our gatherings generally make on the non-Buffista significant others who attend?

Patrick says to remind him of drama people from high school and college, but he hung out with the drama people, so he's happy.

Glad to hear that meara got in on the Nillyaction! Sounds like a lovely time for you all!

Dinner was super fun! thank you to Vortex for executive decisioning a plan that worked out quite well. Anne & I got to the shopping center where the restaurant is a little early and wandered around a fairly large used bookstore while we waited for the appointed hour to arrive. The first thing I picked up when in the store was a 50 States Activity book. Thank you Universe for finding a PERFECT little gift for me to give to Nilly.

Who is the bum-diddliest, most shiniest, and Nilliest of Nillys!

Thank you to everybody who helped bring her to us!!!

Also, it was so nice to finally meet a bunch of my almost localistas. Everyone is so nice! I still feel all glowy.

ETA serial comma

t glum

I didn't bring Nilly a gift. I was going to bring her a little bottle of lotion from the store where I work, but couldn't decide which she'd like, then ran out of time. Poop.

t /glum

Is Nilly on her way back? DC is her last stop, right? If she hasn't left yet, when is she going?

Frank, she's heading out this afternoon. At the end of last night's F2F, she and CaBil were making plans to visit the Air & Space Museum this morning.

As my small group of buffistas were sitting down to dinner here, we noted that the DC dinner group was likely just breaking up. There was a moment of silence.

I miss Nilly.

if all has gone according to plan, at this moment, Nilly is at the Air and Space Museum with CaBil. Her flight leaves at 2:55, so collective travelma should be sent at that time.