Hello world!
July 2, 2006
Yo. Hello, world. I’m hoping I’ll get a couple people from Xanga or Teh Foroom to come, but if not, well, hello, world.
I think I’ll cross-post my St. Louis summary here for a start. Nobody on Teh Foroom has seen it.
Tuesday: Arrived at the church around 4 pm, left in the vans around 5:30. Got to Indianapolis late that night and slept in the UU church there.
Wednesday: Got up at 7 and drove until noonish Missouri time (1-ish Michigan time), when we arrived at out hotel across the street from the convention center. Ate lunch with my sponsor-group (Christine, Audny, and Mark and my dad). Went to orientation, ate dinner, went to opening ceremonies.
Thursday: Went to a workshop on Zen and UUism, went to a workshop called”Challenging the Christian Right”, had lunch, I totally forget what I did that afternoon, had dinner, did stuff, went to the All-GA Coffe House, which is basically people performing cool stuff on a stage. I definitely went to the Exhibition Hall at some point and hung around there a while, looking at booths and stuff. Cool stuff.
Friday: Went to a workshop on “Indian Mounds and White Responses” talking about stuff the Native Americans built that white invaders refused to believe they could have built. Had lunch. Learned how to contact juggle (or maybe that was Saturday). Went to a weird workshop on mythology in movies, but it wasn’t really about that, except if you take Anne-Marie’s mythology class maybe it is and anyway it was confused and I totally want to watch Pleasantville now. Had dinner. Went to the bridging ceremony. We were going to go to the City Museum but the bridging ceremony started (and therefore ended) too late.
Saturday: Went and did a service project wherein we painted the inside of the house of a St Louis resident. Had lunch there (free pizza!). Went and talked at a workshop on the drug ed class. Dyed my hair (a darker brown). Went to the all-GA worship. Had dinner. Went to the costume ball. (I went as Cthulhu’s pet human. It was fun. I got asked to dance with someone, which totally derailed my train of thought. I wound up dancing with him anyway, in a little circle of people.)
Sunday: Got up and packed, put stuff in vans, had breakfast, went to exhibit hall, had lunch, went to City Museum (and it is totaly AWESOME! Basically it’s an old shoe factory that a ton of strists turned into this thing that you can crawl all over and in and around and do tons of fun stuff and get lost and find yourself again and it’s really awesome and my semi-coherent words cannot do it justice), had dinner, went to closing ceremonies, then we went to the St Louis UU church to spend the night and had a closing worship of our own.
Monday: Drove home ALL DAY. Got back to the church around 7:30, got home around 8, went to TotP and saw Walk the Line, which was actually quite good.
If people want me to elaborate on anything I totally can.
