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Um, Dana? What are you doing?

Instead of staying for the afternoon "Healing Through Revealing" session, I excused myself to take a little stroll. I was sitting on the steps outside the meeting room when Caoimhe found me and took me to the hotel bar. We chatted happily for a bit and then Dana came in to pick up a six-pack and discovered us.

We were lured up to the Naughty Room, which was located next to the conference room. There were a few revelers doing some ancillary healing, and we joined them.

We had quite a bit of fun just sitting around, chatting, and playing truth or dare. Contrary to some reports, we were not getting smashed and being rowdy..I don't even think anyone was drunk. We were just hanging, and that hour was one of the highlights of my trip.

Keli and Molly Zero
"Oh man, you were HOW old when you did that?"

When the session ended, a group of people migrated back down to the hotel bar.

The first thing I said when I met Jen was, "You cut your hair!" and she looked at me like, "You are a gigantic asshole," and I thought, well, she hates me. But she turned out to be fun and goofy, and I liked her.

What does it sound like when doves cry?

Monkey Girl and me. What's with my rapper arms? I don't know. Blame it on the bossa nova. Or the Miller Lite.

Before this picture, we took one of those where you scrunch your faces together and take it of yourselves and when we looked at it on my camera, I said, "Oh God, I'm deleting that! I look terrible" and Dana said, "Yeah! You do look pretty bad!" and gleefully fluttered away.

Only Dana can say that to me and I don't care.

For some reason, we went up to Dana, Caoimhe, and Jen's room and took some pix with Dana's monkeys.

That's Emily next to me. She not only knew who I was, she could identify important plot points in some of my oldest entries. Bless her.

It should also be noted Caoimhe and I used her Irish deodorant while we were in the room.

The ladies! ladies! were all about Rob.

Shelley in her fantabulous skirt/apron combo. Nancy is next to her examining the contents of her drink. Her husband helped me pin a sprig of Parsley to my sweater.

Oh yeah, this is the party in Shelley and Keli's room before it was packed with a mob of smokers. I couldn't take it after a bit and ran off to bed. Renee stopped to visit and we gossiped for a long time.

I really got a lot of sleep JournalCon weekend. I don't think that's right.

On to part four, or go back to Parsley