If you're just joining us, you may want to read Part I first.

( Friday: Creative Nonfiction Panel, Conferencing, Wife Meeting, Buffista Meeting )

Sleepy. So sleepy! I could not even keep my eyes open for the first couple hours this morning. I am supposed to be learning about NDAs! I even resorted to drinking Pepsi for a cola kick.

Wind and Fire had skipped the cruise last night. Fire had opted to continue looking for a wedding location, whereas Wind was really intent on going until she got ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just need to get away from...your life. You know? Like when something funny is going on with your computer and you don't know what's going to go wrong next and when you're completely slammed at work because one of your co-workers is on a long vacation and you have to do everything? So it was good timing that Jess and Colin had ( Read more... )

One of the crazy things about the Internet is that you can get to know people in other countries, and other countries are far away and you may never get to meet them. So when I heard that ora_wai (Sarah) was stopping in SF on her grand tour of the States from New Zealand (kroki_refur, where the crap are you? Are you in Auckland? She is in Auckland!), I hoped we ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever been to a Super Bowl party before, but today I found myself at Dave's apartment with a bottle of sparkling pomegranate juice from Trader Joe's. Dave is a friend from Rice; other friends from Rice included Alexis, Jonathan, and Ryan (and his girlfriend Johanna, who did go to Rice but I didn't meet until afterward). Also Anna ( Read more... )

Non-spoilery television thoughts to give this post more substance than the upcoming meme!

Fringe: Who's still watching this show? Because this episode made me glad I didn't give up on it. Things are tying together! There's an overarching story that's been building right before our eyes! And for the first time, I actually yelled, "WHAT?!" when I ( Read more... )

I've never done a 12 of 12 before, so I thought what better day to do one than on my birthday! Right? It was pretty fun to do, although, as expected, I have to throw in some bonus pictures.

( A Birthday in the Life of Polter-Cow, as Represented by 12 Pictures or So )

And so, as was foretold in the Prophecies of Pythia, Polter-Cow did return to Boston a month later to attend the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting.Pull up a chair and let me tell you about the craziness that is my life, in which I end up running into someone I have not seen in a year, someone I have not seen in five years, and someone I ( Read more... )

So as was foreshadowed, arbitrarium and I went to BFD, the big summer concert held by Live105, the only radio station worth listening to around here. But before I get to that, I want to record some of my memories of last year's BFD, because it was pretty awesome.

( BFD 2007, in short (as if): Honeycut, The Matches, CSS, Street to Nowhere, The Lovemakers, Tiger Army, Shiny Toy Guns, Sum 41, Cold War Kids, The Bravery, Silversun Pickups, The Faint, Scissors for Lefty, Kaiser Chiefs, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Social Distortion, Bloc Party )

My fingers are still hurting from last night's post. They haven't had enough time to recover! Luckily, Sunday was a short day, and maybe I don't remember anything at all because my brain is way too full.

( Before the SCC panel, I talked to strangers, watched some trailers, flirted with David Mack and his semi-famous girlfriend, made the best exchange in history, and sat through a Jericho panel )