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Month: March 2013

Boston-Day 5

March 8, 2013
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Another early start, I woke up and wished I could stay in bed all day. I really didn’t want to see that onsite registration desk again. But I returned, as did all the staff. We were all a bit shell-shocked and had a hard time adjusting to the small amount of people who showed up…

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Boston-Not Even Sure What Day This Is

March 7, 2013
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Not even sure what day it is at this point. Today was kind of unreal onsite. Twice as many people came to onsite registration than ever before. We weren’t just swamped or overwhelmed… I don’t even have the words to describe what that was. We just registered people. As fast as possible. And tried to…

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Boston- Day 3

March 6, 2013
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What a day. Up early for my presentation at the board meeting, which went fine. Then I picked up something to drink and headed to onsite registration. We finished setting up and had a quick practice section with the website. Before we knew it, registration was open and we had hundreds of people standing in…

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Boston- Day 2

March 6, 2013
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Had a bit of a slow start as I had a rough night and really wanted to try to sleep more. But I also needed food and snarfage. My decision was made for me when I coworker called about her email problem. I thought I solved it, but maybe it’s still not working; I don’t…

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Boston- Day 1

March 4, 2013
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This is my third trip to Boston. During the first, I drove up with my friend, Delma, and her daughter and went on a sight-seeing tour during the day then went to the post-Leakycon WRock show with House of Black, the Butterbeer Experience, and The Ministry of Magic. During my second trip, I took the…

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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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