I went to the National Book Festival yesterday in Washington, D.C. It was being held at the convention center for the first time, which made it feel more like a conference and less like a festival, but I preferred it to the miserable sun and rain from previous years. After the festival, I decided to…
This day, I woke up early and took to the streets of Boston with a snarf map and a 13-page spreadsheet detailing every snarf on the map, color-coded to show if I’d already snarfed it on a previous trip to Boston or not. I didn’t want to waste time going out of my way to…
Last night I ended up going to a staff party… which was a mistake. My team lost the scavenger hunt (I demand a recount!) but, mostly, it was because it was the most exhausting week of my life and waiting around until after midnight and watching people drink instead of going to sleep is not…
I went to NYC for work again this year during the last week of May. We took the train up. I got a bit of work and some reading done on the way, though the ride seemed longer than I’d remembered. They were doing construction on Penn Station, so we had a hard time figuring…
Yesterday my friends and I visited three new Little Free Libraries yesterday, so I thought maybe a post about them in general is in order. The project was started in Wisconsin in 2011 and many have popped up around the world since then. The idea is to have small, free book exchange boxes all over….
April 15, 2012: In the morning, we divided up the last of the books from the book buffet and hit the streets of Dublin with plenty of release fodder. The Dublin team had stickers for us to put in the books we released during the flash mob. I released James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist…
April 14, 2012: Had slightly more sleep at night, due to sleeping on the floor of the bathroom with pillows over my head. Then had a very nice breakfast with MORE BookCrossers this time. I came up with a sentence for the game in the hall outside the main room. They selected three books and…
April 13, 2012: Due to my inability to sleep through snoring, I only got about 2 hours of sleep; it was a miserable night. But we met up with Ixion in the morning at breakfast and FINALLY spotted our first non-BCinDC BookCrosser: CaterinaAnna! I was seriously beginning to think that this was all just one…
The last day of the conference & bookfair! One of our board members (I think?) brought us nummy cupcakes to celebrate! It was slow on-site (mostly a lot of giving out directions and apologizing for running out of everything). During lunch, I released a book in the penthouse. There were lots of books on the…
Is it day five already? How did that happen? So sleepy. Getting up at 6am every morning is not my thing at all. Mornings and Kate do not get along at all. I spent the morning at on-site registration, monitoring social networks and making a slideshow of images of the Chronicle, the digital app, and…
Yesterday was the Gaithersburg Book Festival. I had to skip volunteering at the library and wake up at 6-effing-thirty to drive there; there was a 15 minute window in which you could arrive to unload in front of your spot. The directions I had were a little wrong, which caused me to freak out slightly,…
On Saturday, September 25, I went to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., which is put together by the Library of Congress. I brought a bunch of books to release that were written by authors at that festival (or about authors at the festival). I got to see some of my favorite authors and…
Convention Day 3. Once again, I woke up a little before my alarm (which NEVER happens, unless I’m nervous, and certainly never so many days in a row). I finished packing up my things. My small suitcase was filled with almost nothing but books (I ended up bringing home 29 books (not counting the 2…
Convention Day 2. Once again, I woke up a little before my alarm. One of my roommates was going to shower in the morning and I said I was getting up at 8; she said that sounded good. By getting up earlier, I could slip into the shower and wash my hair (to let it…
Convention Day 1. I’ll be posting my photos later as a full gallery, but here are a few (click the thumbnails for larger images). I woke up before my alarm was supposed to go off on Friday. Technically, I borrowed my mother’s alarm clock (mine seemed unreliable after the Florida trip) and couldn’t find it…
Leaving Boston in an hour. I had a BLAST! Photos and reports soon to come :-)
NOTE: This post was originally written on Thursday night: I had a so-so travel day today. I finally remembered the absentee voter forms and dropped them by my boss’ office at work before going to the train station. Catching the train out of Burke Centre instead of Union Station was a first for me and…
I leave for Boston in a few hours. I’ll be taking the train there & back. I’m looking forward to attending my first “big” BookCrossing gathering: the BookCrossing UnConvention. I’ll be representing BCinDC there and doing a little presentation on Saturday morning to invite BookCrossers to our 2011 Convention. Convention activities include games, four meals,…
Cross-posted from my Book Blog: Books I’m Taking on Vacation http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/58904.html
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