Whitby do's and dont's

In two days time, I shall be partying at Creamy in the Metropole, as the first part of the great festival that is Whitby. Yay! And this is purplerabbits's first WGW, so this year is the first time that all my partners will be there (counting also ergotia, lilithmagna, and sweetie kboyd). Double yay!

I should therefore make it absolutely clear that I will nevertheless be on the pull like the little slut I always am :-) By putting the answers to some form of the FLEM! checklist in my journal, I feel like I'm doing a public service...

Anyway, the "do's and don'ts" questionnaire that was circulating:

Do:

• Buy much booze for parties
• Eat the occasional vegetable if at all possible
• Venture into the actual hall in the Spa at least once on each evening
• Make better eye contact
• Take lots of photos
• Introduce purplerabbits to lots of folk
• Find out in advance what people are doing during the day
• Talk to as many LJers as possible (I want to meet you! Come up and tell me who you are!)
• Talk to non-LJers
• Dance
• Drink
• Screw

Don't:

• Fret too hard about clothes
• Try to organise a play party
• Let this happen to me
• Lose anything
• Drink too little

(Pedantic update: "do's and don'ts" is correct - it's OK to put an apostrophe before a pluralising s iff it disambiguates. You can't really write "dos" any more than you can write "bis", so it's "do's" and "bi's". And indeed several bi's are on my "do's" list.)

General link propogation

I am going to the pub tonight even though I travel to Whitby tomorrow. Might as well start the drinking marathon early...

A story for the 21st century: we were having coffee in the Elephant House on George IV Bridge on Saturday when I overheard a conversation on the next table.

- "I'm going to have to change my ring tone before I see my folks"
- "Why's that?"
- "Well, my Dad gave me a ringtone for my birthday, and... you know how it is, like when your folks give you a sweater..."

I've started saving up links I want to propogate to put in one big post, rather than making lots of little posts. I was in the middle of doing this when I had to reach around the back of my computer; I accidentally jiggled the lead of my PS/2 mouse, and of course that makes it stop functioning until you reboot the computer. Of course. WHOSE FUCKING STUPID IDEA WAS THAT? I found I could submit the post using only the keyboard, but I could not make it private without the mouse. I made it private later (after fighting with network troubles following the reboot). Here are the same links (and more), presented more presentably.
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