Live From Las Vegas
So I'm in Vegas now. It took nine hours by plane to get here, somehow.
I was supposed to catch an airplane out of Sacremento at 7:36am. Unfortunately I arrived there around 7:00 which was too late to catch that plane. They put me on a 10:02 flight to San Fransisco instead. I arrived there in time to catch the 11:15 flight I was originally supposed to catch from there, but for some reason when they rescheduled me from Sac they bounced me out of it. Who else do I find waiting for the plane but my friend Sally Lorenz. She was on standby there (presumably to take MY vacated seat!), because she had missed HER scheduled flight earlier that morning as well (she blames too much drinking the night before). We ended up on the same 12:45 flight to Vegas.
Arriving there around 2:30, I think it took us like an hour to figure out where to go from there and and like an hour to actually get tehre since we were the last stop the shuttle bus made (turns out the driver didn't know where the Embassy Suites were), so we finally got to the hotel at 4:30.
Sally brought up a good question about airline security: what do they do with all the confiscated materials?! They confiscated two lighters from her when she boarded her plane. They must have a massive horde of lighters and other "contriband."
The State Department wants me to fax them a confirmation form this weekend for the diplomatic security job interview. The only other time I've ever had to fax something was to the State Department when I applied for a foreign service internship a few years ago. I think the State Department are the only people who fax things anymore. I bet thats why the rest of the world doesn't like us anymore. Like, Jacques Chirac was probably saying to his minister of state "you know, I was thinking about supporting that US invastion of Iraq thing," when a french state department intern came running in saying "Condoleeze's on the phone, she wants us to fax them some TPS reports." Chirac: "That does it, they can take their Operation Iraq Americanism and suck it!"
When I ran into the PAXMUN tech staff yesterday, they informed me that my livejournal was the first blog to link to the PAXMUN webpage. I always forget that sites can tell who's linking to them. Thats kinda weird and creepy. Anyway, the PAXMUN technical team also informed me that "Kristy is very cute."
Also, I was worried that they might have a problem with my mohawk since AMWEST takes itself very seriously. Apparently they've gotten used to it though; the most frequent comment I've gotten from high level staff here is "I miss the green." and "Why isn't it green."
And I won eight dollars this morning when we all placed wagers on how many delegates would attend the optional session where we went over rules. My bet of "7" beat out competing bets 2, 5, 12 and 15.
Picture of the Day
Real men sleep in pink beds with kittens.
Previously on Emosnail
Two Years Ago Today: Removal II - The Sequal - And highlights of the first removal hearing (vis-a-vis the transcripts I wasn't supposed to be given), such as "[Fricke] seems to be not the best communicator..."
Year Ago Yesterday: Crossing the Rubicon - I lead the call to end the rampant corruption of the previous Elections Committee, with a guest opinion in the Aggie. It would be followed by an Aggie article on the subject the following day and eventually the Elections Committee would be completely shamed and replaced by Orwellians.
Also Iacta Alea Est - The War on Wrong Begins! - Simulteniously the critically acclaimed War on Wrong begins with opposition to the chronic malfeasance of the Myung administration of MUN at UCD.
Year Ago Today: Legio XIII is on the March - I leave for AMWEST 2004. Also quotes from a conversation with famous Slovak radio host Branislav "Bruno" Ciberij of Funradio.
Recommended Reading: Eric Installs FREIGHT TRAIN HORNS on His Truck - (OMGWTF) - and makes an lj entry about it.