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Day: August 24, 2014

(Not) Seattle: Day 8

August 24, 2014
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In the middle of the night, we flew from Seattle to San Francisco. I nodded off briefly, but had a weird seat and couldn’t get comfy. Dawn as seen from the plane was beautiful. We got in and found out that we had to race to the next gate because we’d been put on another…

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Seattle: Day 7

August 24, 2014
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I got up super super early (6am) in order to walk down to Pike Place Market with Atossa and Panneer so they could see it before we had to fly out of Seattle later that morning. We got there when the market opened. Unfortunately, most of the vendors don’t set up that early on a…

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Seattle: Day 6

August 24, 2014
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Ah, Saturday. Started out the day at a hectic pace with a brand new way to count bookfair attendees–giving each one of them a numbered label before they could go into the bookfair. We did a little packing up (only had a few stations up anyway) and gave out labels at a fast pace all…

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Seattle: Day 5

August 24, 2014
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There’s even less I remember about today. Things that happened: The hotel’s daily schedule. AWP totally takes over. I remembered that I wanted to buy the writer tarot deck Two Sylvias Press was selling. So as soon as the bookfair opened and I was free for a second at onsite registration, I went straight over…

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Seattle: Day 4

August 24, 2014
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I have only a vague recollection of what happened this day. I will do my best to reconstruct it… Up super early to get to onsite registration and set up for the day. Took the shortcut there with pride. Started up the computers. Fixed whichever ones needed to be fixed. Got the Tweet Wall up…

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Boston-Day 9

August 24, 2014
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I’d been reading some of Yann Martel’s short stories and finished reading in bed the night before (a beautiful way to spend my vacation, reading in bed, BTW) in time to give the book away today. However, they gave me a very strange dream that I think I’d like to one day try to make…

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Boston-Day 8

August 24, 2014
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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…

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Boston/Salem-Day 7

August 24, 2014
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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…

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Boston-Day 6

August 24, 2014
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Um, okay. Somehow I completely miscounted and missed Boston Day 6! Oops! So I’m fixing the dates/times of this post so it appears in order. Silly me! I woke up early and got a couple more entries for the staff scavenger hunt out of the way, as my team kind of fell apart in doing…

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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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