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Fun day yesterday
16 Sep 2009 10:15 amMy friend K from high school just moved to Raleigh from Iowa, so I went to hang out with her. I'd invite her over, but she's allergic to cats, and even with Claritin, 5 cats is overwhelming.
So I found her place and we walked out to Glenwood Ave to get some lunch, then talked for a while about stuff. In general. Kinda like in high school, actually, except we're a lot older now.
When we walked back to her place, we walked past Escazú chocolates, which is a local (!) artisan chocolate shop owned by people of South American origin. Possibly Bolivian, but I'm not sure. I got a spicy chocolate ice cream pop, and my god, it was good.
I went back to Chapel Hill for COUP, and I was making fine time...until the traffic stopped. It took me 45 minutes to get about 5 miles. I'd called Ben to tell him I was stuck in traffic and get me some dinner, and he said he'd gone past an accident at Southpoint (276) when he was heading out. I wasn't even to the Durham Freeway yet (279), but knowing it had an end that wasn't really far away helped a lot. Even if my clutch foot got tired.
Good LORD there are a lot of new kids in COUP this year. William thinks it's because the kids who watched Pokemon on TV as kids are college freshmen now. *blinks* Good lord, I'm old. But it was adorably hilarious that one of the new kids asked if attendance at dinner was mandatory! Yes, we will make you join us for food! ... Yeah, no. We're a club made of college students and townies who (get this) watch cartoons for 3 hours once a week. We don't do anything mandatory, but we encourage people to come do social things, like eat food, see nerd movies at local cinemas, play (board & video) games at game night, and come to cons. What better way to make new nerd friends is there?
Speaking of cons, for reasons I am not at liberty to disclose, next year may be my last Animazement. (I already got my badge for 2010.) This would free my Memorial Day weekend to go to Wiscon. Or just stay home; who knows? I don't really *do* anything at the con, except this year I sat in Artists Alley for the better part of 3 days. Didn't sell much. (Though next year is the year of the rabbit, so I could make some adorable bunnies.)
OK, now to go wrangle some words.
So I found her place and we walked out to Glenwood Ave to get some lunch, then talked for a while about stuff. In general. Kinda like in high school, actually, except we're a lot older now.
When we walked back to her place, we walked past Escazú chocolates, which is a local (!) artisan chocolate shop owned by people of South American origin. Possibly Bolivian, but I'm not sure. I got a spicy chocolate ice cream pop, and my god, it was good.
I went back to Chapel Hill for COUP, and I was making fine time...until the traffic stopped. It took me 45 minutes to get about 5 miles. I'd called Ben to tell him I was stuck in traffic and get me some dinner, and he said he'd gone past an accident at Southpoint (276) when he was heading out. I wasn't even to the Durham Freeway yet (279), but knowing it had an end that wasn't really far away helped a lot. Even if my clutch foot got tired.
Good LORD there are a lot of new kids in COUP this year. William thinks it's because the kids who watched Pokemon on TV as kids are college freshmen now. *blinks* Good lord, I'm old. But it was adorably hilarious that one of the new kids asked if attendance at dinner was mandatory! Yes, we will make you join us for food! ... Yeah, no. We're a club made of college students and townies who (get this) watch cartoons for 3 hours once a week. We don't do anything mandatory, but we encourage people to come do social things, like eat food, see nerd movies at local cinemas, play (board & video) games at game night, and come to cons. What better way to make new nerd friends is there?
Speaking of cons, for reasons I am not at liberty to disclose, next year may be my last Animazement. (I already got my badge for 2010.) This would free my Memorial Day weekend to go to Wiscon. Or just stay home; who knows? I don't really *do* anything at the con, except this year I sat in Artists Alley for the better part of 3 days. Didn't sell much. (Though next year is the year of the rabbit, so I could make some adorable bunnies.)
OK, now to go wrangle some words.
