Is it August yet?

My Chicago Gathering pics are up! I’ve also added them to the Existential Scoobies site along with the ones ann1962 already gratiously supplied (look for the ones with the .jpg suffix).

I’m a bit befuddled this week, trying to recover from my whirl-wind vacation to Chicago, Lincoln, and Denver. I have a mazillion things to do, and I don’t want to do any of them because I’m tired. I keep saying, “Eh, I’ll do that when I get back from Santa Cruz”, where I’m going camping this weekend. Four days of sun, hiking, bookstore shopping, and NO internet access.

I may go into severe jittery mania without internet access.

Anyway, it’s amazing what you can do when you’re trying to procrastinate something else. I need to clean my condo in a major way because the masqMom is going to be spending a few nights here next week, and I need to do the laundry from Chic-Denver, and there’s yet more packing to do and suddenly, I’m highly motivated to write copious posts at the community and I even started that essay on Connor and Personal Identity for ros_fod‘s site.

Anyway, don’t expect a peep from me from Saturday through Tuesday afternoon.

Mini LJ meet!

It was officially a Bay Area board meet what with my hokey little “ATPoBtVS” sign and all, but there were several LJers there–masqthephlsphr, of course, and dherblay, deevalish, and cwx.

Pics of this grand event can be found here and here.

Good food, good wine (can’t speak for the beer myself), good Buffy-ific conversation, good company. See deevalish‘s description of the event here.

Enjoyed hanging with dherblay and cwx afterwards as well.

And thanks to d’H and his mom for the ride home!

Good yummy garlicy left-overs for today’s lunch.

See everyone in Vancouver tomorrow!