AFF 2007: "Altman Is Directing My Life" Edition

[badatapologies]

I'm in the Austin-Bergstrom international airport....specifically in front of a large stainless-steel intestinal behemoth that has belched forth Every Bag But Mine. I am promised by the people they pay to promise these things that my bag will be here within the hour. A plaintive girl singer's song echoes through the place, and it's live, as you'd hope, all achy steel guitars and Texas blue lonesome. We reach.

Meanwhile, apparently while in LAX I dropped or otherwise lost my entire bag of makeup and medicine. I'm sure some honest person turned it in to the lost and found, who I'm sure promptly dumped it, but I'll call. I'll be back through there in a couple of weeks. It's not so much that it was necessarily valuable but I don't even remember what was in it. Maybe something good. Gr.

The flight was fine. Flights. Were. Plural. I have not flown by myself in many a year, so it was weird. There are many AFF staffers here with signs beckoning forth the various and sundry festival VIPs arriving today, but I am not one of those, so I will be taking le transit publique to my host's house. Wee complication is at this exact moment I have no idea where that is. But I can't leave the airport without my wayward satchel o' panties, so there's time to sort all this out.

I did have to hack into my ex-spouse's T-Mobile account to get this connection. Does that make me evil? I tried calling first to ask, but there was no answer.

Could use a bite to eat but I don't want to cut into my bus fare. This should be quite an adventurous week. Think good thoughts.

Comments

[meryncadell.livejournal.com]

Hi duck.

Hope this finds you installed in your host's house by now.

I didn't hear back from lovely D whose pic I showed you. The people of Austin have created an embargo against me! Or something.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Hello! Yes, safely arrived at my host's abode. Sorry your friend did not reply, would have been fun to meet. But, we carry on as best we can. I will do my best to break that embargo and make Austin safe for Meryns. :)

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

Yea! Welcome to Austin! Hope things are going well in spite of that whole makeup/medicine bag thing. Truly, that would suck, depending on if it's prescription medicine. Or Chanel makeup, but I'm guessing that's not you. Or maybe it's just not me.

Pardon me, I blather. I'm jealous! I hope you're having a great time!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) Doing well, and the makeup/medicine bag? It actually did turn up. So all is well. This is a great town and I hope I can see more of it after Sunday when the main part of the festival concludes.

[maleadanee.livejournal.com]

Have fun.(remember: when you stop having fun is when you start to get old, so there will eb none of that thank you!) I hope you get your makeup bag back. I hate trying out new make-up so I'd be pissed. It seems I can never find what I ran out of in the same form. Especially eyeliner. Its a conspiracy.
I hope you got something to eat, obtained your baggage, survived public transit and are safely ensconced in your host's home.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

No, there's a cosmetics industry law that states that once a woman buys an item of makeup, the cosmetics companies must immediately discontinue making that item, lest the woman in question be able to replace it. It keeps us constantly buying and discarding other items in a vain search for something "as good" as the thing we ran out of. And then, when we finally do find it? Well, see rule #1.

I did get the bag back, so all's well. Now if I can just return the $50 in replacement items I bought....

Thanks, I will try to have some fun while I'm here. :)