Back home

[gordonzola]

Back from the Northwest. Tired. Got in at 4:45 AM and construction started on the burned out house next door at 8 AM. Ouch. Expect coherency another day.

About ten miles south of Grants Pass we hit a full-grown deer while doing 65 mph. Luckily for us, it was already dead and lying in the road. A big truck was in front of us so we didn’t see it until it was too late to swerve. I can’t believe the car didn’t get fucked up but the side is covered in spattered blood and the smell was BAD, I assume from where the blood got on the engine, by the time we go back to Frisco.

Stupidly, I scheduled myself to give a tour today for a UCB class on co-ops. I just realized there are 30 people in the class and it is going to be a bit of an ordeal space-wise. Oops. Hopefully most simply won’t show for the trip across the bay. If you see me in the store today trying to herd 30 disinterested college kids, don’t heckle. I’m already on edge.

I’ll talk about the conference in a future post but I need to thank a bunch of folks: arispurr, thank you so much for the apartment to stay in. prof_southbay, thanks for everything. Come home now. goodbadgirl, you too.

dirtylibrarian, thisisnotanlj, ladycakes, somepoems, and sleepyhen, thank you for all the hospitality. chloesha, unbelievably the poster made it back intact. queen_beeanna, I loved seeing you but fuck you for making me explain the concept of "cuddle parties" to people at my conference because I was still chuckling over it days later. elementa thank you for showing me a part of Portland I never knew existed.

It was all too fast and I’m back full speed at work too soon.

Comments

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

Of course there are no cuddle parties in Massachusetts. Stupid puritans who don't look at each other out of fear when passing on the street!

Glad you had a good time.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you could be the next cuddle party coordinator!

[prof-southbay.livejournal.com]

I was so sad to see you go. I wish you could have stayed for the football game. I'm quite the athlete as evidenced by many bruises.

I'm glad you made it home okay. Thanks again for visiting me!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

the football game would have been fun, actually. Have you gone to the Wild Rose with GBG yet?

[prof-southbay.livejournal.com]

Nope, not yet. There's a plan in the works, though.

Please come back to Seattle soon!

[arasay.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home safe, and jealous (but pleased) you got to hang with some of my most favourite people!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

We all talked about how much we miss you. Are you gonna come back for Beeanna's wedding?

[arasay.livejournal.com]

When she gives me a date, I can start to evaluate that question in a meaningful way.

We are wedding slackers

[queen-beeanna.livejournal.com]

Early April is the window in question right now. Alex & I really need to step up our game with the planning stuff.

Miss you!

Bee

D'oh! A deer!

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

That is one of my very worst car fears, I am always telling Chad to watch out for the stupid roving deer whenever we go anywhere that's the least bit forested, he thinks I'm crazy. I'm glad you and the car are okay.

Re: D'oh! A deer!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, it could have been really bad.

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

I'll be there in 18 days baby!!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[agenthandy.livejournal.com]

oh no! cuddle parties. tell me you're not one of *those* people?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

do I seem like I'd be one of *those* people? I think not. I think my mocking is clear in the original post.

[agenthandy.livejournal.com]

hahaha

:)

[agenthandy.livejournal.com]

btw,

you made me LAUGH so LOUDLY i almost choked on my vanilla coke.

[agenthandy.livejournal.com]

oh, one more:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-10-05/news/feature.html

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh my:

Participants were then invited to get on all fours, moo like cows, and fall over onto each other. Then the facilitators put on some soft choral music, and, finally, the cuddle was on.

[agenthandy.livejournal.com]

exactly.

hence my concern about *those* people.

[susannochka.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


you're hurting me, G.
but welcome back! I miss you!

Moo Mothafucka

[queen-beeanna.livejournal.com]

*That* is what I was talking about!

Here is another gem:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23159

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

I read about cuddle parties a few months ago. In addition to giving me the screaming willies, I can't help but think they're woefully pathetic.

[ammonoid.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about cuddle parties until now. Damn you!

Its like a rave w/o music or E. *shudder*

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

it's an evil meme. get it out of my head!

[misquoted.livejournal.com]

Ok, I've just surfed around that whole site and looked at the nerve.com article. I'm so creeped out by it, and I'm glad I'm not the only one.

HOW THE HELL IS IT NON-SEXUAL??????????????????????

I don't get it.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

OMG, heidi, you're so MIDWESTERN

*strikes a California pose*

... yeah. i'm not sure i buy that either, especially since the guy who invented the cuddle party also wrote a book called: Everything I Needed to Know about Life, I Learned from Eating Pie: A Sexual Manifesto for Malekind.

[misquoted.livejournal.com]

AND he started the whole thing with his group of massage therapist/yoga instructor/reiki healer friends who are SUCH caregivers and SUCH helpers that they just don't take care of themselves and just need to be cuddled.

AND he spells his name REiD because the I is lowercase because he puts himself last because he's SUCH a giver.

*gag*

[sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume he doesn't eat pie the same way Jason Biggs does?

[sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com]

so jealous of you for having a non-contact cuddle party with elementa

[elementa.livejournal.com]

non-contact?

Shh, don't tell anyone but G was getting his cuddle on with a rat terrier and a basset hound. I also hear that he's training to be a Watsu practitioner. There was also a rumor about an involvement with a little schoolboy - something to do with cookies and chocolate.

I'll never understand the life of a cheesemonger.

[sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com]

ha!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

man, that dog smelled almost as bad as my deer-splattered car. ;)

[elementa.livejournal.com]

Watsu for pets!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you weren't damaged by the deer!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

me too. scary scary.

Those scary cuddlers

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

Okay, REiD? Eww eww eww. He's the reincarnation of all things hippie(male)heninous. Marcie, however, clearly just needs to work through her trauma and come into her groovy self. Someone first tell her that Jewgirls look foolish with such shiksa-wannabe hair; maybe then she'll take the next step herself.