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Month: August 2010

Boston UnCon- Sunday

August 22, 2010
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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…

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Boston UnCon- Saturday

August 22, 2010
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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…

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Boston UnCon- Friday

August 19, 2010
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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…

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BrickFair 2010

August 18, 2010
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| LEGO, Local

I didn’t really travel far to get to BrickFair, but it was a significant event. So I’m going to bend my own rules a little and link to my writeup of BrickFair 2010, the “unofficial” LEGO Convention in Northern Virginia. Writeup: http://lifewithlegos.livejournal.com/6573.html My MOCs: http://lifewithlegos.livejournal.com/6208.html My photos: http://upload.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=441464 (when moderated)

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Leaving soon!

August 15, 2010
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Leaving Boston in an hour. I had a BLAST! Photos and reports soon to come :-)

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Thursday- Trip

August 13, 2010
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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…

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Off to Boston

August 12, 2010
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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,…

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Florida trip photos- at long last!

August 9, 2010
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| Harry Potter, Infinitus Trip

This just in from my lunch break… I’ve finally got my photos from my trip to Florida organized and online! There are a few problems with them, and I apologize for that in advance. The first problem is that at least one photo is in the wrong place (I spotted one, so there might very…

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Going to post photos soon…

August 1, 2010
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| Infinitus Trip, Info

I’ve delayed posting photos so far because I’ve been indecisive (big surprise). I was thinking of doing a “Best Of” folder and then just posting all the other photos. But I feel weird about posting close-up photos of my snarfs (just the markers/signs? Not interesting at all). So here’s the question: do I post by…

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Terms Explained:

AWP-I worked at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs
BookCrossing-the act of registering books and leaving them in public places for people to find
BCinDC- my local BookCrossing meetup group
DADA-my local Harry Potter meetup group, Defense Against Dumb 'A's (who don't get Harry Potter)
Gillian-The name of my current GPS unit (old GPS was named Jill)
HPA-The Harry Potter Alliance. My local chapter was Carpe Futurum
Love-The name of my dark red Honda Element
Markeroni-finding & photographing historical markers (usually with a mascot; mine is Eeyore)
OBCZ- Official BookCrossing Zone (a shelf where it's okay to leave books)
Snarfari-at Markeroni, a historical marker is a snarf. So a snarfari is a safari/trip to find markers
WRock-Wizard Rock is Harry Potter music

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