Flipside 2009 AfterCollapse Report

This year's Flipside was the closest it's ever come to feeling like I'd had a bad time overall, but the ending saved it. One major realization that I had was that Rangering graveyard (2 AM to 8 AM) is pretty un-fun, because no one is awake and none of the art is running. It's nice because it's cooler and not much happens, but that second part is pretty boring. It's choosing to walk around a really exciting event at the least interesting time. And the you have to sleep until 2 PM to be functional. Next year I will sign up for different shifts.

Part of it was timing, too. Although I only spent 20% of my Flipside waking hours doing volunteer/setup work, it was *all* right at the beginning of the event. While there was a lot of satisfaction involved, there wasn't really much fun, and three days without fun is a long time at Flipside.

There was one really, really fun thing that *did* happen in gailmom's yurt that actually resulted in visible steam rising from various orifices afterward. :)
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Even More Mom

So instead of finally being done with her foot surgery and able to walk again after 6 weeks in a wheelchair, my Mom just found out she'll be in that wheelchair for another *month*. In addition, many of the long-suffering and very generous friends and neighbors who have been busting their ass to help her out will be going on vacation soon. As she lives 200 miles away, this translates into probably at least three more trips up there in the coming months to help her out. She's super-depressed, as anyone would be after being stuck in a wheelchair for over a month, and I was looking forward to a Mom-free summer to get my financial shit in gear. I'll be leaving tomorrow on the first of these newer trips, and will be back in town on Saturday, hopefully in time to go see Oceana at the Vortex.