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I had SUCH an amazing start to my weekend. First I went and did my final teacher eval, then met with my professor for the final time, and she had lovely things to say about me and my contributions to the classes I took with her, and such constructive things (and positive things) to say about my thesis. It was a really bitter-sweet parting, but wonderful, too.

Right from there I went across town to pick up emilytheodd who I have known via flist for a few years now, but whom I'd sadly never met. She is even more sparkly awesome in person :D We drove to Berkeley to meet up with miss_begonia and ericaplease for dinner and some musical theater. Dinner was delicious: salad, pizza and chicken satay, and great fun. We saw Girlfriend at the Berkeley Rep. It was DELIGHTFUL. It's like everything I love about super-well-written, schmoopy with just-the-right-amount-of-angst fanfic, only on stage and featuring music played by a band of REALLY REALLY HOT dykes. YES. PLEASE. We were squealing into our flists, clapping, giggling and laughing (which annoyed a man sitting near us who seemed to be seriously sense-of-humor impaired, but whatever) and there was at least one point that was soooo gorgeously sweet that I literally could not breathe.

We then repaired to miss_begonia's for cake, wine, gifts, and High School Musical. I am no longer a HSM virgin! (I'm still not sure if this is a good thing or not.) We watched a few select songs from 1, and then all the way through 3 (which i kind of dozed during, but I don't think I missed much). We then stayed up until 5:30 in the morning talking about slash, and bandom, and music, and politics, and voting, and law school, and grad school, and writing, and family and other VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. Then we all got up at 9:30. (I mentioned the exhausted, right?) During that time I had a dream that I was working for Zach Efron in Connecticut (on some campaign, I think) and he and I had to travel to VT to fetch Lea Michelle so that she could go to Boston and marry Kristin Chenowith. IDK either!)

This morning I had a lovely chat with Miss B about Adam and AI and writing and all sorts of lovely things, and then came home to collapse. I'm more than 24 hours behind on LJ, and I've tried to catch up, but I can hardly see. Sorry!

I essentially have 4.5 more days to get ready for my road trip. This makes me want to vomit a bit, I have to say. Hopefully I'll get there?

*adores*

Not that this is probably news to any of you. My fangirl love gets aired pretty frequently around here *g* But it's Fandom appreciation week over at wendy's journal. Day one today! come play! It's fun! :D

Yesterday was so much fun that my cheeks still hurt from grinning. Just getting to hang out with coiledsoul (Jenn) and glendaglamazon (Glenda) would have been brilliant and super fun, but add onto that getting to see the US premiere of Doctor Who with a huge crowd of geeks like me at Wondercon, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAND getting to go see Clash of the Titans with other people instead of on my own (which is how I figured I was going to be seeing it), and a fantastic day becomes pretty much perfection.

One thing I love about what fandom has brought into my life is the variety of ages and locations and life experiences of my friends. It's enriching and exciting and educational (and lots of other e-words like excellent, too). But it's also fun sometimes to get together with people who grew up with the same toys and shows on TV and horrifying 80s fashions and set of cultural references. So there was that :D

And Wondercon itself was fascinating and great for people watching, and not nearly as crowded as I was worried about (with the exception of the Capcom booth, so we walked away from that), and there were girls in corsets. Which is never a bad thing. Some fantastic cosplay, including a boy of about 8 dressed as Link who was delightful, and some steampunk girls who were ridiculously gorgeous. I kept poking Jenn to give more Wincon cards to girls in corsets, but she was awesome and handed them out to girls and women of all clothing choices (except full twilight paraphernalia *g*), shapes, stripes and walks of life.

We queued up for the first screening of Dr. Who, but were told after not too long that there was no way we'd get in, so we went away and had some food and came back for the second screening. There was a little scary moment where we thought they were cutting the line off, but they were just checking space, so it was all good.

( no spoilers for plot, but some people don't even like to know reactions )

While we were leaving the parking garage after parking I had casually mentioned that I was really excited about Clash of the Titans but hadn't had a chance to see it. Jenn mentioned that she was really wanting to see it too. And we managed to convince Glenda that it was a good idea. So while we were waiting for Who to start, out came the iPhone, and we booked tickets to the 9:30 (NOT 3D) show at the theater around the corner from the convention center. That left us just enough time to shoot over to Chevy's for a beer before the movie.

OH. MY. GOD. THE. MOVIE. I. FREAKING LOVED IT. That's not a spoiler. It was always gonna be a given. But I did. I really really did. ( some more under here )

Then we went to Mel's Diner (*waves to my Azkatraz dinner-mates*) and had food and serious business fangirl discussions. Then we came back to my parent's house and talked more until finally I couldn't keep my eyes open and I fell into bed at 2:45.

Then this morning we laughed at ourselves because we waited until they were standing by the door bags in hand before we started talking about this week's SPN.

Fangirl funtimes are the best. MOAR PLZ.

Just for today, you can get con tickets to Wincon for only $90!

Did you know that starting this year Wincon is no longer just about the Winchesters? It's going multi-fandom, so you can come squee about slash dragons or vampires or comics or people getting space married or glambulges and guyliner even if you couldn't care less about two brothers in an Impala.

Wincon is a by the fans, for the fans operation. Our goal is to provide an annual multifandom gathering for fanfen and provide a safe space for women and under-represented fans of pop media in all it’s infinite varieties (just like us) to come and meet, hang out, discuss their shows or fandoms, the fic written about them, the fanart made for them, party and have a good time. In other words, a giant slumber party where we can all do the fannish things we do online in person and in our pajamas (or whatever you feel like wearing!) No official personnel from any show or fandom is affiliated with this convention, nor will there be any appearances by any show actors, celebrities, writers, or other personnel.

This year it's in Chicago, and the hotel is rumoured to be awesome! I've been the last two years and had an absolutely amazing time. I cannot recommend it enough. If you've been thinking about coming, today is definitely the day to get tickets. And if you haven't thought about coming, you definitely should! Poke your friends. Get them to come along. It's amazing.

1. I am writing Jensen/Adam Lambert fic. It's so not my fault. IDEK.

2. I have a ticket to Wondercon on Saturday. Also not my fault. (coiledsoul and glendaglamazon are awesome like pie.) Markedly less shameful than 1. however. :D

3. I wrote from 8:30 this morning until 1:30 this afternoon, only pausing to mix up some waffle batter. Five hours of delighted, happy-making, insane pairing writing. I feel like meeee!

4. I'm making some lunch, and then I'm going to write some more. There are no words for how much I've been missing this feeling. *hugs notebook to chest*

5. There was a piece of cat food in the shower door track this morning. The cat food lives all the way on the other side of the house. WTAF.

I hope that if unexpected things are happening to you, they are of the awesome. ♥

It seems somehow appropriate that my 2000th post is my Wincon report. This weekend has been all about fangirls, and fangirls are the very best part of livejournal. I'm on the airplane right now, feeling sad to be going, but also looking forward to getting back to my own bed and my cat and my kitchen. It was an amazing weekend and I got to spend time with a lot of truly awesome people. It was long enough that I will cut for the sake of your scrolling finger, though.

( It snows in October in Denver, CO )

Now to figure out how I am going to see the 11 shows my DVR completely failed to record while I was gone. I don't understand what happens EVERY SINGLE TIME I go out of town that it stops recording, but it's clearly something. It for some reason didn't want to record House or Heroes tonight either. Really, though, it's hard to care as much as I would had I not been spending all weekend with such awesome women. I love Wincon so so much. I've bought my ticket for next year already. More on next year later.

BEST PROM EVER.

Everyone looks amazing whether they are in elegant dresses or dressed like zombies, or both.

Why wasn't high school like this?

I had such a fantastic time today. Thank you, kathyem1 and everyone else for making my day be filled with deliciousness.

SPN/J2 fangirls...

wendy had a thought, missyjack and heidi8 had ideas, and twofourteen had a design, and now there is a t-shirt, here at cafe press! Go now, and get your twizzler/funkytown shirt. They rock!