Regina Noctis

I’m heading out to get an oil change on the car and then I hit the road for the Bay Area.

Since I haven’t had a chance to make plan with anyone, you should know I’ll be staying at the Pacific Inn in Mountain View. No idea about the room number, of course, but if you want to find me, look it up and ask for my room.

I’ll be at the BayCon meeting Sunday afternoon, thinking about kareoke on Sunday night, and will probably be having a dim sum lunch on Monday afternoon before I leave for Hellano again. Otherwise, there are no plans.

I don’t have anyone’s current number, so I can’t contact any of you, and of course won’t have access to email or lj.

If anyone’s interested in doing something while I’m up there, please let me know.

And if anyone else is free on Monday afternoon and is interested in dim sum, definitely contact me.

See whoever I see when I see ‘em.

The second Goth Cruise is happening, aboard the refurbished Mary Celeste.

I wanna go! No way in hell I can afford it, but I so wanna go.

More than that, I want to drag along. The fabulous Goth Goddess and Party Queen would be the perfect friend to share the trip with.

Dammit, where’s a winning lottery ticket when you need one?

Looks like I’ll be heading up to the Bay Area on Saturday, and head back home on Monday. See folks there.

Now returning this computer to its regularly scheduled user.

I mean to be up in the Bay Area for a couple days in the near-ish future. I should put in an appearance at a meeting or two for BayCon, since I’m driving distance. I’m going to try for either the meeting this month (2/22) or the one next (3/21). Would anyone be willing to let me surf their couch for a couple days? If not, I’ve still got a little left out of the money from unemployment. Not a whole lot that I care to spend it on around here, after all. I can manage to spring for a hotel room if necessary. Which has its temptations… I haven’t forgotten that room with the big, deep tub that I had on my last night in the Bay Area before I moved down here. Not hideously expensive, either, and right in Mountain View.

The practical side of me wants to save the $60 and find someplace that I don’t have to pay to stay. After all, I’m going to have to gas up the car three times on this little trip, and that’s not the cheapest thing in the world.

The rain is making the arthritic side of me (a side that grows day by day, it seems) hanker for that tub and cost be damned.

Anyone wanna help a Libra with this decision by offering crash space, or by unanimously being silent across the board so I have no choice but to get the room with the big bathtub? :D

I only remember a little bit of it. I remembered more when I first woke, but it has faded since.

All I remember for sure now is that and I and a few other friends (I didn’t see them, I just “knew” that they were there somewhere) were in a mostly-abandoned theater. Mostly because it still showed a movie about once a week. We were there to watch the movie, which was something serious and bordered on being a documentary of something pretty horrible, what I don’t remember. The theater was really run down, dim and dingy even when the lights were up, with missing chairs in the rows, water stains on the walls, and trash covering the carpet (which was sticky with ancient spilled sodas). Rhesagirl and I didn’t wind up watching much of the movie. Something in it upset her, and made her call in question something connected to her her Christianity. We wound up talking throughout the movie, and continued after the movie ended and the lights came up. I can’t remember now what exactly had caused it, or what we were talking about. I do remember that I was finding words that wouldn’t normally occur to me. I’m not Christian, not a Bible scholar, and I was pulling up all this stuff with some authority to help her through her crisis of faith. Since I’m more likely to play Devil’s Advocate in a discussion of that type, it was very un-me.

Now, off to attack email. I’ve got to write my Kinkajous and see if they’re going to be around for BayCon. I only know for sure on one of them, and if the other two need to pull out, I want to know ASAP so I can find replacements. That should be an interesting task, since I’m not living in the Bay Area where I’ve got access to people I know.

may be interested in this, and anyone else among my aspiring author friends…

The 73rd annual WD Writer’s contest is on. Deadline is May 15, late deadline is end of May. 10 categories (including poetry, ) available. Grand prize is $2,500 cash and either a trip to New York or a trip to Maui.

I’m off to my room to get busy. :D