Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Montreal
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Nute arrives in a week!!
I'll be there obviously and pissup date i think is May 25-27?
Who's coming up? the weather is great!!!

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Registered: Sep 2000
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Yeah, I'm in country from the 20-27. Friday the 26 is probably the best night for getting together pissup-style, as I do have obligations during most of the days and some evenings.

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Datura said she'd go if she could get a ride, perhaps with DMoon, but has anyone heard from any of them? Goatboy and Smug were potentials, but they seem to have found better things to do as well.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: China
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Will it be in French or English?

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I could maybe go if I had a car (such as if Goatboy wanted to drive up to Montreal via here).

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Oh, and I'd have to check on what my visa situation is.

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Originally posted by Smug Git
I could maybe go if I had a car (such as if Goatboy wanted to drive up to Montreal via here).

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Ithaca is on the way like Rome is between Paris and Berlin.

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It makes a 10+ hour joirney into a 11 1/2 hour journey.

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I need a new passport.

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I have arrived.


And it looks like this will be about it. Goatboy has officially pussed out, which of course runs in the family, so that's that.

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Holy crap I'm actually going to be in Montreal that same weekend. Maybe if ya'll go to tittie bars I'll see ya'll there.

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There are strip clubs all over this city.

CRSR, can you PM me your cell phone again? The number I have isn't connecting.

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Day 0:

Leave home apropos 12:30 PM

Transit to Osaka Int'l Airport =n uneventful

Osaka - Chicago = 12 hours

Hours 1-3 4 Tanqueray/Tonics + Kingdom of Heaven + some other movie I don't remember offhand

Sleep 2 hours, then get woken up to eat a shitty fruit plate

Chicago - Montreal = 1.5 hours = sleep

Arrival in Montreal, taxi to hotel, can't sleep because I napped on the plane; eventually sleep aronujd 1 AM Sunday (circa Noon Japan)

Day 1:

6:00 AM : Alarm goes off, sleep through it

6:45: wakeup, mosey through downtown, find Convention Center, register, get coffee

8:00-3:00 PM Intercultural education worshop

4:30 PM: return to hotel, try to stay awake to avoid major jet lag problems. Too jetlagged to notice that my computer is set for the wrong time zone, making me think it is an hour earlier than it really is.

6:00 PM: Meet CRSR online and decide I have time to get a beer with him. I calculate that there is more than enough time to hang out for a bit and be in bed by 9.

7:30 CRSR finally shows up after I call him to ensure that he isn't lost. I have figured out by now that it is later than I thought, but it's still okay. I'm into my 3 pint by the time that CRSR gets there though. Turns out the hotel was a bit further than he had expected. He thought 8 blocks away but it ended up being 15. But he is here.

10:00 PM: The hotel bar is closed and we decide to take in the rest of the Edmonton hockey game. We find a bar (name unknown as the outside was covered in scaffolding) and plop in front of the TV. CRSR immediately begins complaining about how many beers he drank at the hotel, already so drunk that he forgot that he had 7 pints. I offer to pay for the rest of the beers, just to calm him down.

We run out of cigarettes and CRSR asks Gabrielle 6 times if they sell smokes. They didn't, every time. He goes off in search of a pack and wicked visions of fiend marching out of Anthony's Pub in Philly filter on the edge of my consciousness. CRSR eventually returns and admits that he couldn't remember what he was supposed to have done and that he didn't have any fucking clue where he would have gone to do it.

12:00 AM Edmonton having won the game, I must return and sleep. CRSR promises me he'll have no trouble on his own. As I leave, I hear him ask Gabrielle again if they sell any cigarettes.

self-portrait pictures exist, but no hardware interface is available atm.

Day 2:

7 AM: Up and at them. Too jetlagged to be hungover. Tim Horton's soup on a cold Montreal morning = ++++

8:30 AM - 5 PM: Developing and Administering Quality Short-Term Study Abroad Programs

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Special Interest Group reception with obscenely overpriced beverages. I work the crowd, networking like a madman.

7:30 PM: Grab a Lebanese pita from next door, settle into bed to watch the Buffalo/Carolina hockey game, and write this up. Doubt I'll make it to 8:30 tonight. Bliss.

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