while i was on percodan i thought of a word that rhymes with engine.

[amand_r]

FRIDAY:

1. Jesus, I forgot now much I love listening to Marketplace at 6 am.

2. And how much I hate carry on luggage.

3. And paying for fucking wireless.

4. My MIL and I met at the airport. She left her wallet at home, and so had nothing but her driver's license. She's mad about that, but luckily the room was prepaid, though they were dicks about it at the hotel.

5. Went to fantastic dinner with fam. No one will care about this but kwanalicious: Uncle P ordered 11 dishes. WTF? All were awesome. I was sitting next to Cousin A, and her speech patterns are so like yours that when the lobster course came around, I almost turned to her and was all, "REAL LANGUISTINO!" but I refrained. J and J's kid is so cute it makes me want to barf, with his Chinese/English bilingualism. Obvs I am doing V. a disservice by being a monolinguist. Wait, does netspeak count as another language? Pittsburghese? T's godparents where there and they were sweet. Everyone loaded me down with gifts for VK. Most of them are stuffed bears. I shit you not. They made me eat the 8 Treasure Pudding first. It was like they KNEW my secret hate of Chinese desserts.

6. Fell asleep in the car. Hate that feeling. Too…much…food. Just thinking about that dinner makes me full again. In fact, if I am ever hungry in my life, I will just think of that dinner and will feel distinctly full.

7. OMG DC IS NOISY. Really, this is where I reveal that I am a country bumpkin, but the noise from outside was bothersome: honking, sirens, traffic in general. How do you city people do that?

SATURDAY:

1. Woke up not knowing how to turn off the alarm clock.

2. Then discovered that they bathroom light is outside the bathroom door. Took about a full minute of standing in the dark, groping, which I normally enjoy.

3. Coffee and then cab to CRIME AND PUNISHMENT MUSEUM. People, this is the third time I have taken a cab in my life. Was fun and awesome. Cabbie adorable and talkative. Gave me his card. I drew stick figures on it.

4. MUSEUM: met up with the fabulous blue_fjords, adjovi, taffimai, alba17 and dvanulya. Words cannot describe how awesome all these ladies are. Blue was indulgent of exploring all the interactive displays with me, and when I get home I will upload all our goofy pics. Taff was indulgent in taking all those pics! She also has the most gorgeous smile in the universe. At one point she texted me from the train, and it went like this:

Taff: They stopped my train. We are just sitting here!
Amand-r: Are there any other TW fen with you?
Taff: I don't think so.
Amand-r: Just scream, "DON'T GO!" and if anyone answers, "I LOVE YOU," then you have found TW fen.
Taff: I did. No one answered. :(
Amand-r: Oh well, At least you have extra space all around you now!

5. SO YES. Eventually all were united. I took pictures of guns, which I will share later. We reenacted the morgue scene in TKKS. Blue totes hung on to me when I rode the motorcycle that went no where, and then she shot me on a dumpster. Adjovi rocks the interactive quizzes and is from Pittsburgh, so we had like, fifteen million yinzer moments.

Alba is amazingly awesome, and I wish I had gotten to talk to her more. We always seemed to be on the opposite ends of the group. I had like, fifteen million questions I didn't get to ask people. Dvanulya lives in a very cool place with an amazing job, and I was glad that she was able to come up before she left to go home!

We left the museum and went to lunch at a restaurant that my cousins "recced." Srsly. I said "recced" OUT LOUD, AND THEN THEY ALL LAUGHED AT ME. It was tasty, and I had chicken livers, because one must indulge in organ meat when one gets the chance. Go ahead, read it all ways.

We sat there for like, EVER, and talked trash, fic, fandom, jobs, college, family, slash, and we all shared our "where were you when Ianto died" horror stories (dvanulya wins hands down.) Taff had to leave, and Alba and Dvanulya followed her shortly, but then Adjovi and Blue and I went to a Starbucks and chatted for like, EVER, and we tried to convince Blue to watch Angel: The series, and DOCTOR WHO (WATCH IT, GIRL.) We talked about our family, mums, things like that. And we rehashed why we didn't like Captain Jack Harkness, the ep, and why we loved Something Borrowed, and we bounced fic ideas off each other, plots and stories that we are working on. Dudes, Adjovi has an idea that I weep for because I cannot go and read it yet. WRITE FASTER, BITCHES!

We said goodbye at 6, and I cabbed it back to the hotel.

5. My MIL is working this weekend, but she invited me to dinner with her boss, and we walked to his hotel. So then we walk to Chinatown, two blocks from HIS hotel, and I ended up eating dinner at the Indian restaurant RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE WE HAD LUNCH. Srsly, I mourned that lost cab fare today. Who knew? Distance!fail! so I got coffee from the SAME STARBUCKS and just walked back to the hotel by myself.

6. Read all the WIAD. Booted a bunch. Cannot vote, so it doesn't really matter. I have a favorite, and I know the author. I JUST KNOW. Was it just me, or was there a little prompt!fail this time around? I dunno. Maybe just my perception.

SUNDAY:

1. I GOT COFFEE.
2. I WROTE THIS.
3. GOING TO DIM SUM IN 30 MINUTES. DIIIIIIIIIM SUUUUUUUUUUUM. HAM SUI GOK!

Comments

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

yay vicarious vacation. Much more exciting than -- wake up, go to theater, so theatery things, come home, eat, pass out.

:0) sounds like a blast!!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IT WAS SO AWESOME. VERY UNLIKE FAIL.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

So fucking awesome to have met you! I totes had a blast. ;) That's so funny about the Indian restaurant. At least you are learning your way around DC -- that neighborhood, anyway.

How is the snarry coming? (I'll stop asking about it if you want.)

I need to go vote in WIAD and I still have no idea what I'm going w/, either for or against. I also need to finish my feedback thingies. And then I'm totally going to finish a fic today! I feel it. It must leave my computer and go to adjovi's and misswinterhill's b/c I will burn it if not.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

1. I went back there this morning for dim sum. (I'm actually in a coma right now.) WENT TO STARBUCKS.

2. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

3. Go vote! Go write ur fic, lady! No one wants to burn.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

There totes was prompt!fail (and I'm not really excluding myself) from seemingly-non-existent to 'very very vague maybe that was a prompt there' over to the other extreme 'THIS IS MY PROMPT! LET ME SHOW YOU IT!' I honestly don't think there was a single story that managed to combine both items smoothly, so my voting just went by general impression.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Hi, Crue!!!!! This time, I'm not sure which one you wrote! I don't know for sure who wrote any of them! But I have guesses on yours and one other and we'll see if I'm right! But that's not the point of the voting! None of them leaped out at me either way (although hello typos)! I am using way too many exclamation points, as a result of chocolate chip-blueberry pancakes and having met amand_r yesterday and still being on a high from her sheer wonderfulness!!!! Have an awesome day!!!!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE TYPOS. I'M GOING TO POST THE MUSEUM FAIL PICS TOO!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I was going to argue with you about the two elements incorporated thing, but I think...and this is just me, that the ones that did do it (save one that I read) weren't...very...hrm.

Fandom has turned me into a hypercritical whore who will never post a fic again. I'm just going to sit over here and mock you all.

I know yours. I guessed it. But I KNOW I AM SO RIGHT. WATCH ME BE JOSSED TONIGHT! HEADSCREAMING FAIL!

My entry was pretty bad too. Haahaha, you won't see it in the light of day! Evar!

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Hmm we may have to talk about this after since frankly some entries just made me go 'no fucking way' enough that I didn't even get to look at the prompts-incorporation.

HAHA watch me be voted out, sucker, then we can talk. To be fair, there are two that I could guess myself for reasonably well enough. So yknow - I take it with a grain of salt if anyone says they have guessed me :P

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

yay for the awesomefuntimes of it all! everyone rocked so much and just was so very, very lovely. and how satisfying was it to just TALK! and ha to the yinzerificiness of it all. n'at.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I'M WRITING A STORY ABOUT BEN ROETHLISBURGER BEING A MEMBER OF TORCHWOOD.

NO I'M TOTES NOT, BUT THE IDEA MADE ME LOL.

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

you could make it about my cat, ben roethliskitty. or not.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I COULD. BUT THEN I WOULD BE BREAKING MY CARDINAL RULE: DON'T WRITE SHIT.

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

I once said OMGWTFBBQ out loud.

Except I said "Oh my God, what the fuck, barbeque" which about three times as lame.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU HAD MAD CRAZY FUN! If you ever have reason to come to Philly during the schoolyear, let me know.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THAT IS THE BEST THING EVER. SOMETIMES i SAY "OH EM GEE ONE ONE ONE"

OOOOOOO. PHILLY. TEH CITEH OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND PEOPLE WALKING ABOUT WITH SHOTGUNS IN TRASH BAGS. and that liberty bell thing. ::handwaving::

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

My brother and I say "kthxbai". And it is actually distinguishable from "Kay, thanks, bye."

There was also one family dinner where we were eating corn on the cob, except for my brother and father who are allergic, and as I was eating mine I piped up "I has a corm!" and my brother replied "nom nom nom!"

My mother thinks we're so weird.

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW. WHERE WAS DVANULYA?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

[idontlikegravy.livejournal.com]

So, clearly you are not in your normal environs, but I sent you a PM. Did you get it?

If so, then WHY YOU NOT ANSWER BITCH?

If not, please ignore this embarrassing outburst, a small ninja just hijacked my keyboard. Thank you.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I GOT IT. I WAS FLUSTERED. I WAS AWAY. I SHALL THINK ABOUT IT.

YOU MADE ME ALL GIGGLY, ACTUALLY, AND A LITTLE EMBARRASSED.

[kwanalicious.livejournal.com]

REAL LANGOSTINO!!!!! Goddamn but I'm jealous of you and your fooding! It really is funny how Cousin A sounds a little like me and Cousin J looks a little like me from certain angles. It's kind of bizarre when I look at thumbnails and think, "Oh, it's me!" but really, it isn't. I'm sorry--if I had been there, you would have had to take only the requisite two bites of the 8 Treasure Rice and then I would have been all over your portion, having already finished mine.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahahhha, yeah, they are cool peeps, but you inherited the bon mot, biatch. Also, I did the "two bites" thing, and it seemed to go over well. I hoped they think I was just trying to watch my weight or be polite and leave enough for everyone or something. Liang Liang paid, so I don't want to be all insulting.

[sivatheminty.livejournal.com]

Isn't it silly that I was visiting my Chinese relatives the same week you were? I too delighted in that which we call Dim Sum :) Steve wanted to buy 50 bao and freeze them....I told him to bring his number down a notch.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG THEY HAD THE BAKED ONES TOO. I BOUGHT EXTRAS TO TAKE ON THE PLANE. I ATE THEM ON THE PLANE.

The wu gok sucked. But the char siu bao was great. The har gow had that awesome large chunk consistency so that it was crisp inside. NOM NOM NOM. AND OMG WHY HAVE I NEVER HAD STEAMED CHINESE BROCCOLI BEFORE?

CRITICAL DIM SUM CONSUMING AMANDR IS CRITICAL.

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

I am loving reading all these recounts of the meetup. &hearts hope all is still going well.