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Aftermath of the PP party
I need a good remedy for pining.
Ah, I'm such an idiot.
Ahh... maybe I should post more details.
Yeah, so anyway. Saturday. I slept in, and Jason and Jeff had already gone over to the Argent to hang out. They called me, but it sounded REALLY overwhelmingly loud on the phone, so I kinda hesitated, especially knowing that I had to get to the Big House or whatever the place is called at 5pm for our BD dinner. So... so I hung out with Muffy for the afternoon. We went to the fabric store looking for stuff to make a laurel out of, and then went to Potrero Center to get bagels and groceries and Jamba Juice and stuff. (We stopped in some stores looking for stuff, like a bathrobe for Jeff's costume)
Then around 5 I went over to the place where we were meeting up... so Kuibbles and Whitefire were there, and Cleaver and Sophocles, but nobody else from BD. So we waited around a bit, helped the Ringers move stuff over into the building, and in the meantime the others showed up... in addition, some random totally weird old guy (ok, like in his late 30's or early 40's) showed up and somehow thought he was allowed to come to dinner with us. Well, uh, we were too nice to tell him to scupper off, so it was the 6 of us BD people and this random old guy ("Shaggy" or something). We walked around the neighborhood for a while and eventually settled on Thai food.
It was pretty cool getting to talk to my crewmates for a while. Eyes is definitely the crazy coolest of the entire gang, he's really cute and also left-handed and all academic and stuff. Silverdawg is just WEIRD. Trickykid is really funny, and Whitefire is just this total wild guy. Whitefire actually tried to get us all BD pendants but failed so instead he gave us all chains and said he'd send us the pendants when he picked them up or whatever. Whee! Anyway, so we ate dinner and hung out and it was neat. Except the random weird guy... because it felt like we couldn't *really* talk bout stuff.
Well, anyway. We got back to the place arond 7:30, which was kinda early, but Cleaver took pity on us and let us come in early and help set up and blow up balloons and whatnot, which we did, after changing into costume and taking a few crew pictures. (The only pics I've put up so far: crew pic 1 crew pic 2. Eyes, Kuibbles, Whitefire / Trickykid, Janthina, Silverdawg) That was fun. Then there was a party. I saw ninety billion people and trying to list them all here would be ridiculous, so I'll try to list highlights:
- seeing all the CMU people again... Jamshid, Karen, Sam Kass, Jay, Chris Newell, etc. Yay Yohos!
- seeing Tony Neal (Shantybones)! He and I went to Governor's School together in 1993 and I hadn't seen him since, but he went to Cornell with another Yoho so she came out for the weekend and they came to the party.
- Getting a picture taken with Cleaver!
- Showing Nemo my modified apron... at the boat it had a Crate & Barrel tag sticking out, so I cut off most of the tagg except the part that said "arr". Nemo loved it!
- The swordfighting on the big screen... except the part where I went up and SF'ed Jacksparrow and lost. Stupid keyboard :P
- Lejerque... and Lejerque's reading of his story. Dammit, I wish I could hang out with him more sometime that isn't like with a whole ton of people because he's awesome and we never get to talk enough.
- Actually getting to meet Silvermoon/star/etc. It's cool that you showed up, I'm sorry I was so out of it that I didn't have time to talk much.
- Big Looterati gatherings, and taking tons of pictures. They even let me be in the flag picture :)
- Trife's hat... he actually made a yellow name in wires above his hat. Hehe.
- Trying to get drunk and failing miserably. I swear, I had like 9 glasses of rum punch and it did NOTHING. I was sitting between Eyes and Whitefire on the couch at one point and Eyes is like "OMG, I can totally smell the alcohol in that," but seriously. Not even a buzz.
- Ok, let's face it, the thing I really, really, really will remember about the evening is meeting Mike. (He has a female character in-game so.) I'd basically kinda talked to him a little bit over the course of the weekend, but not much, and well, we were both at Lejerque's reading, and my feet were killing me from standing still, so I kept moving around, and he was also shuffling around, so at some point we looked at each other and smiled, and he came over to me and I came over to him and we both started doing funny piratey poses, like hands-on-hips or crossed-arms or whatnot... and well, he stole my sword, and I leaned my head on his shoulder and pretended to sleep and he put his arm around my back, and... gaah, he was so comfy. So the reading ended, and the two of us went inside to the party together and started talking... and KEPT talking. For like the next hour or two. And it was so cool because I mean, there's no way I've ever met him before in my entire life, but I just felt so comfortable talking to him, and he felt the same towards me, and... and bleh. Since he was basically in Eris's group, he kept going back to them and then coming back and talking to me. We took a walk outside and just kept chatting and hugging and gaahh, it was just so nice. Eventually I was standing there talking to someone and Mike came over to me to tell me that they were leaving... and ugh... I was really sad. We hugged a very big hug and he kissed me on the cheek. I gave him my phone number and he said he'd call me today, thought he'd be doing touristy stuff or whatnot. Man, was I a confused mess of emotions at that point.
Well, uh, anyway, there's most of the party for me beyond just talking to people and going around being silly. I spent the last hour of it sitting in a bunch of chairs with my crewmates bitching about stuff. It was fun. I'm really glad they went and we got a chance to hang out.
So we came home... and got up this morning to go to the hotel for breakfast... and we hung out there for a few hours with the people there, like Hom-and-Thus and Squimur and random other folks... the devs were there but left around when we got there... and well, we were there for about 2 hours and decided to go get lunch, so the whole gang of us walked a few blocks and got lunch, and then Joe (Garnot) had to catch a BART back to the airport, and then Jeff and Jason and I came back to Rif's so Jeff could get his car and give Min and her fiance a ride to the airport. And well, I came back here and logged in and talked to Mike on PP and it turned out I missed Eris's posse (which included him) by all of about 10 mins at the hotel. Damnit I was so scuppering sad about that, because well, they're all out at her house which is kinda far out of the city and both of us are kinda at the mercy of our hosts. And he leaves tomorrow and goes back to Canada and I'm never going to see him again and I'm totally pining over this, which sucks a lot.
But I'm hoping to stop pining and just try to remember it as an incredibly happy cool thing to spend 3 hours talking to a totally wonderful person, rather than dwell on the fact that I met a totally wonderful person who I will never see again in my life. I guess what sucks is just this feeling of, we're in the same city for the next few hours and we can't hang out together and chat more and ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh I'm just deadly sad and I should probly go in the other room before I start crying as I picture his big brown eyes smiling at me. Oi. I'm such a dork.
Anyway, in summary: The PP party was really cool. It was great meeting so many people and I hope the Ringers throw many more of them. I took a ton of pictures, I'll post them at some point, hopefully.
...wonder if I should make this entry friends-only or not...
Ah, I'm such an idiot.
Ahh... maybe I should post more details.
Yeah, so anyway. Saturday. I slept in, and Jason and Jeff had already gone over to the Argent to hang out. They called me, but it sounded REALLY overwhelmingly loud on the phone, so I kinda hesitated, especially knowing that I had to get to the Big House or whatever the place is called at 5pm for our BD dinner. So... so I hung out with Muffy for the afternoon. We went to the fabric store looking for stuff to make a laurel out of, and then went to Potrero Center to get bagels and groceries and Jamba Juice and stuff. (We stopped in some stores looking for stuff, like a bathrobe for Jeff's costume)
Then around 5 I went over to the place where we were meeting up... so Kuibbles and Whitefire were there, and Cleaver and Sophocles, but nobody else from BD. So we waited around a bit, helped the Ringers move stuff over into the building, and in the meantime the others showed up... in addition, some random totally weird old guy (ok, like in his late 30's or early 40's) showed up and somehow thought he was allowed to come to dinner with us. Well, uh, we were too nice to tell him to scupper off, so it was the 6 of us BD people and this random old guy ("Shaggy" or something). We walked around the neighborhood for a while and eventually settled on Thai food.
It was pretty cool getting to talk to my crewmates for a while. Eyes is definitely the crazy coolest of the entire gang, he's really cute and also left-handed and all academic and stuff. Silverdawg is just WEIRD. Trickykid is really funny, and Whitefire is just this total wild guy. Whitefire actually tried to get us all BD pendants but failed so instead he gave us all chains and said he'd send us the pendants when he picked them up or whatever. Whee! Anyway, so we ate dinner and hung out and it was neat. Except the random weird guy... because it felt like we couldn't *really* talk bout stuff.
Well, anyway. We got back to the place arond 7:30, which was kinda early, but Cleaver took pity on us and let us come in early and help set up and blow up balloons and whatnot, which we did, after changing into costume and taking a few crew pictures. (The only pics I've put up so far: crew pic 1 crew pic 2. Eyes, Kuibbles, Whitefire / Trickykid, Janthina, Silverdawg) That was fun. Then there was a party. I saw ninety billion people and trying to list them all here would be ridiculous, so I'll try to list highlights:
- seeing all the CMU people again... Jamshid, Karen, Sam Kass, Jay, Chris Newell, etc. Yay Yohos!
- seeing Tony Neal (Shantybones)! He and I went to Governor's School together in 1993 and I hadn't seen him since, but he went to Cornell with another Yoho so she came out for the weekend and they came to the party.
- Getting a picture taken with Cleaver!
- Showing Nemo my modified apron... at the boat it had a Crate & Barrel tag sticking out, so I cut off most of the tagg except the part that said "arr". Nemo loved it!
- The swordfighting on the big screen... except the part where I went up and SF'ed Jacksparrow and lost. Stupid keyboard :P
- Lejerque... and Lejerque's reading of his story. Dammit, I wish I could hang out with him more sometime that isn't like with a whole ton of people because he's awesome and we never get to talk enough.
- Actually getting to meet Silvermoon/star/etc. It's cool that you showed up, I'm sorry I was so out of it that I didn't have time to talk much.
- Big Looterati gatherings, and taking tons of pictures. They even let me be in the flag picture :)
- Trife's hat... he actually made a yellow name in wires above his hat. Hehe.
- Trying to get drunk and failing miserably. I swear, I had like 9 glasses of rum punch and it did NOTHING. I was sitting between Eyes and Whitefire on the couch at one point and Eyes is like "OMG, I can totally smell the alcohol in that," but seriously. Not even a buzz.
- Ok, let's face it, the thing I really, really, really will remember about the evening is meeting Mike. (He has a female character in-game so.) I'd basically kinda talked to him a little bit over the course of the weekend, but not much, and well, we were both at Lejerque's reading, and my feet were killing me from standing still, so I kept moving around, and he was also shuffling around, so at some point we looked at each other and smiled, and he came over to me and I came over to him and we both started doing funny piratey poses, like hands-on-hips or crossed-arms or whatnot... and well, he stole my sword, and I leaned my head on his shoulder and pretended to sleep and he put his arm around my back, and... gaah, he was so comfy. So the reading ended, and the two of us went inside to the party together and started talking... and KEPT talking. For like the next hour or two. And it was so cool because I mean, there's no way I've ever met him before in my entire life, but I just felt so comfortable talking to him, and he felt the same towards me, and... and bleh. Since he was basically in Eris's group, he kept going back to them and then coming back and talking to me. We took a walk outside and just kept chatting and hugging and gaahh, it was just so nice. Eventually I was standing there talking to someone and Mike came over to me to tell me that they were leaving... and ugh... I was really sad. We hugged a very big hug and he kissed me on the cheek. I gave him my phone number and he said he'd call me today, thought he'd be doing touristy stuff or whatnot. Man, was I a confused mess of emotions at that point.
Well, uh, anyway, there's most of the party for me beyond just talking to people and going around being silly. I spent the last hour of it sitting in a bunch of chairs with my crewmates bitching about stuff. It was fun. I'm really glad they went and we got a chance to hang out.
So we came home... and got up this morning to go to the hotel for breakfast... and we hung out there for a few hours with the people there, like Hom-and-Thus and Squimur and random other folks... the devs were there but left around when we got there... and well, we were there for about 2 hours and decided to go get lunch, so the whole gang of us walked a few blocks and got lunch, and then Joe (Garnot) had to catch a BART back to the airport, and then Jeff and Jason and I came back to Rif's so Jeff could get his car and give Min and her fiance a ride to the airport. And well, I came back here and logged in and talked to Mike on PP and it turned out I missed Eris's posse (which included him) by all of about 10 mins at the hotel. Damnit I was so scuppering sad about that, because well, they're all out at her house which is kinda far out of the city and both of us are kinda at the mercy of our hosts. And he leaves tomorrow and goes back to Canada and I'm never going to see him again and I'm totally pining over this, which sucks a lot.
But I'm hoping to stop pining and just try to remember it as an incredibly happy cool thing to spend 3 hours talking to a totally wonderful person, rather than dwell on the fact that I met a totally wonderful person who I will never see again in my life. I guess what sucks is just this feeling of, we're in the same city for the next few hours and we can't hang out together and chat more and ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh I'm just deadly sad and I should probly go in the other room before I start crying as I picture his big brown eyes smiling at me. Oi. I'm such a dork.
Anyway, in summary: The PP party was really cool. It was great meeting so many people and I hope the Ringers throw many more of them. I took a ton of pictures, I'll post them at some point, hopefully.
...wonder if I should make this entry friends-only or not...
/plank me if I'm being too nosy =P
Re: /plank me if I'm being too nosy =P
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If you see him again, and I'm sure you will, at some point... kiss him back! =)
You know you not only want to, but that you have to. =)
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I just showed some people the pictures since everyone likes seeing how people look in real life ... thanks for putting those up !
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Wait, big brown-eyed canadian in SF over the weekend? Hmm... Nope, don't remember drunkenly calling myself Mike.