It’s been a crazy week. I’m still in Chicago, and will be at least through Tuesday. I’ll spare you with a blow-by-blow rundown of the events of the last week except to say that I had fun hanging out with Partran, datahawk, linnaeus, rustitobuck, sylverfox, kittylad, Barbarian, and Chouette at various parts of the week. Got a lot of Midwest Furfest planning stuff done, and got to relax a bit. It was good.

Friday was quite busy. After a stop by Dick Blick in the morning to negotiate some goodies for MFF, we headed up to Wonder Lake, IL and spent the day with takaza‘s mom. Nice and low-key, though a reminder that everyone’s family has different dynamics. It was a pleasant visit though. After a late departure it was a somewhat panicked drive down to Morton Grove, sure that we’d be late…and we were exactly on time. Yay! We got to the Giordano’s and I was able to set up things with the staff there with relative ease. Then people started showing up. And showing up. And showing up. We had 32 people in all: duncandahusky, Takaza, DataHawk, Posicat, Foxen, FurtiveFox, Damnbear, Chouette, Barbarian, Ed, Rustitobuck, Colin, Partran, Aureth, evil_dwagon, Innerwolf, Neowolf2, Max, Tincrash, Little Wolf, Grey, Benjie, Ecostar, DaveQat, Synicism, Steviemaxwell, grabstein_69, Beth, justincheetah, wyldekyttin, crim_ferret, and Firewing. Much pizza was consumed, and folks generally seemed to have a good time. We took a sizable portion of the crowd (and picked up a few more) over to see Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind afterwards – I think we had about 25 or so people there. Which is pretty good, since I think their theater only holds 88 people 🙂 A couple members of our group got to participate in the entertainment (partran learned volunteering isn’t always a good thing, and aureth proved he could take directions…well, sort of). We had a really great time there and laughed a lot. I think we seemed to even pick up a non-fur to hang out with some of our group – not sure how that happened. We packed it in not long after, but I don’t think we got to bed until 3 that night.

And on Saturday? Well, I was exhausted. I slept as late as I could, but I was still dragging. After the night before both Takaza and I were feeling a bit tired and antisocial, so we kept things kind of quiet. We made a quick visit to the con hotel to check on a few things, and a long, lingering visit to Expo (drool, drool, drool…) then came back to Rusty’s place and ordered some yummy food from Leona’s. Linnaeus was able to stop by after work and that was good – we had some nice discussion and he got to unwind a bit.

So now it’s Sunday. We’ve got the Midwest Furry Fandom Board Meeting, and then the Midwest Furfest staff meeting. We’ll probably head out for dinner with folks afterwards, and it’ll be fun. Takaza flies back to NC tomorrow at about 5:30, and then I might be driving back on Tuesday – we’ll see how things work out today and tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe a stop along the way would be nice….