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7:30am Sunday 3 February 2002

Wake up now. Food is already set up.

It's freezing outside, making the wake up process all the more undesirable. I gotta get up now.

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Last night as we were all in that oh-so-tired state, I heard David talking so I knew he was awake.

"Hey David," I hollered across the room, my eyes closed.

"Yeah?"

"Pick a number between one and fifteen, and don't tell me what it is."

"Alright."

"Is it on this card?"

"Um, yes."

"Is it on this card?"

"no."

"Is it on this card?"

"Yes."

"Is it on this card?"

"No."

"Ten! Whoohoo!" I giggled with glee. Understand this was all done verbally. there were no 'cards.'

Immediately we heard another voice in the room, "That's stupid, you guys are just doing binary! Anyone can do that!"

"But it works and it's funny!" I explained.

Then, another voice, "What's binary? What are you guys talking about??" Oh so very beautiful and funny.

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After cleanup, munching, hugs, we had closing circle, which included David, Zach and I singing the Yogi Bear song, ending with an Ants and Cheese verse. We just love that song, and I love that everyone who hears it more than 3 times loves it too!!!

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After closing circle, we joined the YAC con-debriefing meeting. Jaine basically went down a checklist and got feedback on how people thought each part of the con went. Generally, the only thing that needed fixing was orienting the adults as to what they can expect.

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Then David and I took a short walk down the street while waiting for our ride to the airport. We asked a few different places for a postcard, but none could be found. We walked backwards back to the church because the wind was bitterly cold.

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Our ride stopped by a drugstore, where I bought a postcard for 10 cents. We slept most of the way to the airport. At the airport on check-in, we were selected to have our bags searched (all our carry-on and checked baggage), which we thought was just fine, but another lady was not as pleased when it happened to her. The guy was so happy with how cool we were about it, that he was happy to mail the postcard for me, considering there are no more mailboxes inside the airports. One of the MPs said, "it's a perfect place for a bomb to be deposited," so they have all been removed.

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The steward talked to us as long as possible before we taxied cause David and I are in such cheerful smiley moods after such a great trip. Just now in the middle of our flight, I snuck forward and pushed the call-flight-attendant button above the flight attendant's head, and snuck back to my seat before he turned around. I was too slap-happy-silly to keep a straight face, plus when he saw it was the light above his head, he immediately looked my direction. Very funny.

4:40pm Sunday 3 February 2002

Just slept on the floor in the Detroit airport for a while, a bit over an hour.

Last night Silent Football occurred after the dance, through much of which I slept (in the same room with many decibel music pumping, much to the amazement of some advisors who talked about me last night, according to one advisor I spoke with this morning) because I was flat tired.

The game had about 18 people. They do zooms with elbows, cannot reverse the direction of the Fwap, which they call Thwap, allow "a buh a whah a duh?" which was quite abused when people raise their hands, and allow the dictator to do whatever they want.

Basically, the game was chaotic and unstructured. It started off the way our games get after 2 hours of play.

Lori ("Beast" because of her dreads) was dictator. Jaine, Tommy, Zach were most vocal. At one point Jaine go renamed to Lesbian Cunt Sucker or something equally crude, after which she immediately left the game and was mad according to Bridgette, who was asked to check after her. Jaine came back and pulled Lori out of the game at which point Craig (?) immediately caused a Cold Rush of Air, so I raised my hand, Zach took over dictatorship, I tattled, and then someone said Zach couldn't award penance points to Craig, so Zach awarded a penance point to me instead even though I hadn't made an error. Funny.

Lori and Jaine returned, sparred cat-fight roman-greco wrestling style and then rejoined the game. Ultimately Tommy lost and had to do one verse of Little Bunny Foo Foo while being held upside down at closing circle.

9:30pm

My bag didn't make it, though Dave's did, and we checked them at the same time. I just filed a claim and they say they'll deliver it to me tomorrow.

(they did)

10:45pm

I'm home now. I'm going to shower and then sleep. So great to be home after such a great weekend!!!