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[dendritejungle]

WELL. I'm not exactly where I'm supposed to be at the moment. I should be in New York City at the moment, signing in for a weekend of exciting paperfolding. (Yes, after spending money to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, I am now spending good money to fold paper with other people for a weekend.) I don't discuss it much, but I have a lifelong love *coughandtalentforcough* origami, and while I haven't been in the past...good grief, decade? to the annual OrigamiUSA conventions in New York, I have been a number of times in my life since I was a geeky little teenager. Good times.

But no, I am not there. I am back at the Porter airline terminal in Toronto after we were turned back from landing in Newark. (Note I say "landing" as in "we'd already been in the air and were basically THERE and then had to fly back".) *sigh* Thunderstorms, I gather. That they are expecting to continue, truth be told, so I may well be wasting my time waiting here with silly hope. But hope springs eternal and weather can be unexpected, so I'd rather be here just in case. And frankly, if I'm gonna be stuck somewhere, the Porter general lounge is a pretty darn sweet place to be: free drinks, free snacks, free wireless, free newspapers...woohoo!

My backup plan is to take a late-night bus tonight, which should still get me in town before registration tomorrow morning. I'm just sorry I'm going to miss the Pride party tonighgt that a friend is hostin, since it was going to be my one chance to see a bunch of my New York friends this year. :(

Of course, on the up side, this gives me time to post! *g* Last weekend I spent at my favourite film festival of the year: the World Wide Short Film Festival! They're my kind of festival. Hee! :D I love it when festivals don't take themselves so damn seriously. A few I particularly enjoyed this year:

Paul Rondin est...Paul Rondin (A guy who's movie trailer voice continues in real life has trouble meeting women who will tolerate his eccentricities - until he meets a woman who records phone menus for a living.)
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. IT'S A SPOON. *dies laughing*
AIR KNOB. BEST. AIR GUITAR BATTLE. EVER. \o/
Deadspiel. It's zombies! It's curling! How much more Canadian can you get?
Post-it Love. A sweet 3-minute look at a quirky office romance. (This one you can actually SEE - thanks YouTube!)
Dog. A heart-wrenching stop-motion animation with unbelievably emotionally "real" characters. Just incredible. (And did I mention heart-wrenching?) You can also watch this one...but uh, maybe then watch the Post-it Love as a more pleasant chaser.

OMG YOU GUYS THEY JUST ANNOUNCED THE FLIGHT. i'M HEADING OUT! \O/

Comments

[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

Sorry your plans got all messed up.

[gigglingkat]

WOOT!!!! Have a great time!

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

Good luck, sweetie! I hope you made it to NYC safely, and that you have a wonderful time at the convention.

[http://users.livejournal.com/shing_/]

Of course there's an origami convention :)

Oh Porter Airlines! Tell me how it is! I'm planning on taking Porter to Chicago for the SPN con.

Have a great time!!

[metalana.livejournal.com]

oo, will you show me your origami sometime?

I saw a great exhibit of origami animals at the Xerox PARC headquarters in Palo Alto. My best friend works there. She used to make me origami earrings and stuff.

good luck getting to new york!

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if you were supposed to land any time in the vicinity of 6:30pm, it was HORRIBLE here. Like, copious impressive lightning, sheets of rain, skies black as pitch in the early evening, can't see past the edge of the balcony on the 19th floor (where I work), I'm not leaving work until it's over no matter how much I want the workweek to be over, bad.

But then it cleared up.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

I HOPE YOU'RE THERE AND IT IS ALL GOOD!

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Hope you got there, and you're having a fantastic weekend!

[openmydoors.livejournal.com]

I d'awwwww'd at the Post-it love one. But maybe I should have watched that before Dog. Because. Wow. :/