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Miracle of miracles, I'm awake at 7:30am! And not because I've been up since 4:30am or 5pm the previous day or anything! Of course, I know that this is one victory, and might not be repeated. But it feels goooood. It's also the first time I'm waking up still in a pleasant mood, so perhaps my hibernation is ending at last.
I am a bit more trepidatious about The Long Trail. It's not just the food, gas money and possible occasional hotel room that I need to have saved up for, it's also gear! That fucking awful Eagle Lake trail in Acadia killed my boots. I might be able to glue them for a few small weekend hikes, but that won't cut it for long distance backpacking. Besides boots, I need 1-2 more pairs of fancy hiking pants, possibly new thermal underwear, it's possible my tent's too old or I might need to go halvsies on one big enough to house two people and their gear. Even if I wasn't my current fluffiness, my tent could only fit two people if their gear was left outside, under the fly. The fly would deflect morning dew and maybe a very light rainfall, but any heavier than that and the groundwater would soak them.
And can I really handle 30+ days without my Coyote, or any internet access to digitally nuzzle him or Rude? I grow whiny and needy for them after a week. But still . . . well, if I can't pull together the finances, I know that I can get some enjoyment out of helping my friend prep and pack and organize her food drops and such. Though maybe food drops aren't so essential, I'm not sure what the state of groceries in the reachable towns is. It'd be pretty amazing to do it myself, some September or October. Prepped for snow, of course!
Last night, I started looking hard at going to the Geeky Kink Event in New Jersey in early November. There's only a scant few months between now and then and a far-lesser-but-still-intimidating big chunk o' cash needed to make it possible, but for some reason I'm much more excited by this than the prospect of next year's Geeky Kinky New England (same damn thing, only held in a Warwick hotel), my beloved Fetish Flea (also in a Warwick hotel, in mid-March), or Arisia (Boston, and I did always feel that I was not quite the right sort of geek to make the most of that, the two or three years I went). I think part of this is the notion of con + travel, and I dearly miss travel. I bet there's a way to split up my trip a little bit, and have a few hours in NYC. Any bus or train to New Jersey is going to stop in Port Authority or Penn Station, it's a given. And I've seen far too little lately of my favorite city in the world.
I can volunteer to shave an impressive $50 off the cost of attending, but I can also be a presenter. (I guess enough time has passed between my presentations at the Fetish Flea that I've forgotten the terror and the butterflies enough to seriously contemplate this.) The organizer of the event said that geekier presentations were going to win out over purely kinky ones. So my task for the next few days is to read the blurbs for previous presentations and come up with a solid supergeeky idea or two. It's a pity I can't just steal the excellent thing Cecilia Tan did a few days ago at Geeky Kink New England- Slytherin Hazing! Holy shit, that sounds fun.
I was going to start brainstorming ideas right here, but Coyote has offered me some money to get breakfast out! In this house that is rather lacking in yummy breakfast options, I'm gonna throw on some clothes and jump at his offer. Maybe I'll finally get the bagel with lox I've been craving for a week. Or a waffle, ooooooooooo.
I am a bit more trepidatious about The Long Trail. It's not just the food, gas money and possible occasional hotel room that I need to have saved up for, it's also gear! That fucking awful Eagle Lake trail in Acadia killed my boots. I might be able to glue them for a few small weekend hikes, but that won't cut it for long distance backpacking. Besides boots, I need 1-2 more pairs of fancy hiking pants, possibly new thermal underwear, it's possible my tent's too old or I might need to go halvsies on one big enough to house two people and their gear. Even if I wasn't my current fluffiness, my tent could only fit two people if their gear was left outside, under the fly. The fly would deflect morning dew and maybe a very light rainfall, but any heavier than that and the groundwater would soak them.
And can I really handle 30+ days without my Coyote, or any internet access to digitally nuzzle him or Rude? I grow whiny and needy for them after a week. But still . . . well, if I can't pull together the finances, I know that I can get some enjoyment out of helping my friend prep and pack and organize her food drops and such. Though maybe food drops aren't so essential, I'm not sure what the state of groceries in the reachable towns is. It'd be pretty amazing to do it myself, some September or October. Prepped for snow, of course!
Last night, I started looking hard at going to the Geeky Kink Event in New Jersey in early November. There's only a scant few months between now and then and a far-lesser-but-still-intimidating big chunk o' cash needed to make it possible, but for some reason I'm much more excited by this than the prospect of next year's Geeky Kinky New England (same damn thing, only held in a Warwick hotel), my beloved Fetish Flea (also in a Warwick hotel, in mid-March), or Arisia (Boston, and I did always feel that I was not quite the right sort of geek to make the most of that, the two or three years I went). I think part of this is the notion of con + travel, and I dearly miss travel. I bet there's a way to split up my trip a little bit, and have a few hours in NYC. Any bus or train to New Jersey is going to stop in Port Authority or Penn Station, it's a given. And I've seen far too little lately of my favorite city in the world.
I can volunteer to shave an impressive $50 off the cost of attending, but I can also be a presenter. (I guess enough time has passed between my presentations at the Fetish Flea that I've forgotten the terror and the butterflies enough to seriously contemplate this.) The organizer of the event said that geekier presentations were going to win out over purely kinky ones. So my task for the next few days is to read the blurbs for previous presentations and come up with a solid supergeeky idea or two. It's a pity I can't just steal the excellent thing Cecilia Tan did a few days ago at Geeky Kink New England- Slytherin Hazing! Holy shit, that sounds fun.
I was going to start brainstorming ideas right here, but Coyote has offered me some money to get breakfast out! In this house that is rather lacking in yummy breakfast options, I'm gonna throw on some clothes and jump at his offer. Maybe I'll finally get the bagel with lox I've been craving for a week. Or a waffle, ooooooooooo.