Back from Arisia

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Arisia Weekend, In Handy-Dandy Bulletpoint Form:

-- Went to con. Had good time.
-- Saw lots of folks. Made many of them eat chocolate cookies.
-- Was on panels. Talked about lots of different things. Introduced people to the verb "obnoxed."
-- Took stuff home Sunday morning. Attended birthday party. Returned to convention in afternoon.
-- Developed killer headache beginning at my 2 PM panel.
-- Tried to go to "Buffy" sing-along. Too crowded.
-- Went home. Sent mabfan out to get food. Whinged about headache.
-- Put headache to bed. Slept like rock. Still exhausted.
-- Back in office today. Convention going on less than a mile from work. Contemplated going over at lunch time, but it's 15 degrees out plus windchill.

My Party: Highlights

So, highlights (again, in handy-dandy bullet-point form) of my birthday gathering:

-- The room decorations were the stuffed Doctor Who knits. People who hadn't seen them in person seemed to be amused.
-- Lots of fun people from various spheres of my life came together and found common conversational topics.
-- The shomeret negiah puppy pile on the bed
-- I'd made close on 12 dozen chewy chocolate cocoa cookies (recipe from tsuki_no_bara, to be posted soon, as it was requested), and we only brought home one container's worth.
-- Lots of laughter
-- Lovely gifts from generous friends
-- Unintentional irony related to the temporary storage of one gift
-- Excepting (a) the aforementioned cookies, (b) random leftover chocolate, and (c) half a bottle of Diet Coke, everything we put out for the gathering got eaten.

Thanks to everyone who dropped by and made Nomi's Birthday (Observed) such a fun time.