DC NYE, Thursday December 31^st 1998

We arrived at our suite at three o'clock on the button with little trouble. It was snowing and all the people in Maryland and Delaware were driving like they never see snow. If they got 6 inches I'm sure they'd be eyeing up their kin to see who'd be good eatin'.

Eh, we checked in and lugged all of Malyss' 15 bags up to the room where we settled in and put up the noticeable "Stonecutters Lodge" sign on our door. Upon arriving at the bash suite, we introduced ourselves and Condor noted that I looked nothing like a spivak which just proved in my head that most spivaks are probably 120 lbs with no secondary sexual characteristics. Unfortunately, being the first people at the bash, other than the hosts, there wasn't much to do. I immediately took control of the TV and looked for the station that would have the Simpsons re-runs, then watched some Gilligan's Island movie because there was nothing on.

Later on, Mynx showed up and I reckon she was the second or third basher to arrive to the bash but the first guest of the Stonecutters Lodge. She came in and made conversation with Malyss while I began to become more introverted than usual, hiding behind Malyss and lying underneath the desk. I didn't want to go in the other room and close the door because I didn't want to seem rude or anything. Then Moonflower arrived at our place, she definitely didn't fit the image that I had of her. Her voice was huskier than I thought and she reminded me of a good "bad role model aunt" with a pack of cigarettes in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other, but she hung around for a bit while I returned to my hiding places.

"So far, so good" I thought to myself, "maybe no one will spit at me tonight or for the rest of the bash." I had this fear that as soon as I arrived at the bash and people who have appeared in my fanfic or those who voted against me in that wacky Ibid. dispute or who hated Downtime would just spit at me and make me feel relatively unwelcome.

Then the party got started and I got my camera and started taking pictures hopefully getting people looking like themselves rather than looking their best. Unfortunately the few pictures I took that I considered unflattering didn't seem to come out or were on the other camera which I've yet to finish up. So far, so good. Everyone seems pleasant enough and I begin to relax a little. Wellsie's there but she looks busy with gromit and I'm still feeling shy and everything.

Time wears on, we socialize, Malyss drinks, I take pictures, midnight comes and I think the virus that everyone got at the bash began to spread when the kissing began when the ball dropped.

Ended up playing Trivial Pursuit with V.Dentata, Etoile, Malyss, Mynx and Wellsie while gromit was playing Monopoly. About five minutes later the game broke up leaving the three of us (Mynx, Malyss and myself) to talk about breasts (how my best friend's girlfriend has LL cups naturally and how Mynx disputes that because she has a hard enough time looking for G cup bras and all that), I wandered about for a little to see what was going on in the bash suite and take a few more candid shots. People are just watching TV, talking and playing GT on the PSX.

Friday, January 1^st 1999

Slept in pretty late, I think the front desk directed some MOOer's phone call to our room who was looking for some other MOOer. I was way too fucking tired to remember anything. Malyss daintily induced vomiting because it made her feel better and so she could enjoy the brunch afterwards. I ate my food in a minute and spent the rest of the time listening to the far end of the table and watching other people's eating habits.

Then we went to wander the mall and I found out what a Lechter's was. The way people were talking about the place I thought it was a bakery but it ended up being some place where they sold NO₂ cannisters. After that disappointment, I was still hungry, we headed back to the room after Malyss and Mynx had their time in the dollar store where Malyss picked up one of those green tubes that whistles when it's spun around.

Rest of the day was pretty quiet, I wanted to have some quiet time with Malyss. People weren't around in the bash suite and those who were played on the PSX which wasn't that entertaining to watch. Time dragged on and I was wondering if it was a bad idea to have come to the bash in the first place since things were so slow. And we played Pictionary, eventually doing the game with MOO terms and bash terms. Everyone liked my drawings, I was disappointed I wasn't able to have "Downtime" played. Things livened up when we decided to have a game back at the Lodge. Since I was bored I decided to liven things up with my buttocks. Wearing a long shirt (to avoid unsightly plumber's crack) and my shorts, I pulled down my shorts just below my cheeks and let the shirt drape down over it. When the people who were going to play Trivial Pursuit followed, I jogged down the hall letting my shirt bounce up much to their disgust. This game ended about 5 minutes later again when gromit finished his Monopoly game and went to bed with Wellsie in tow. We stayed up until about 4 in the morning talking about MOOers and stuff. I think this was the first night that I ran naked through the halls much to Mynx and Malyss' entertainment. Everyone else was asleep or passed out drunk by the time I did this, so I knew it was my duty to run around naked more tomorrow night.

There was a fire alarm too. Hee, nobody was prepared for it and everyone was outside waiting to see if there really was a fire shivering in the cold. It was cold enough that I even felt the cold while I was wearing my shorts, usually I can stand low temperatures like a walrus on an iceberg. Was funny to see where Nim's mind was since he came outside with his PSX under his arm.

Saturday, January 2^nd 1999

Woke up very late and at Malyss' insistence, we went out with Mynx to wander around D.C.. Because I didn't know it was a rite of passage I didn't get a chance to urinate on the Metro. It was even colder today and I could feel the cold in my teeth when I breathed. Took pictures of the stuffed elephant's penis in the Smithsonian and looked around for the big Triceratops statue that used to be out on the mall so I could have my picture taken riding the beast but they moved him over to the zoo and it was getting way too late and cold to bother with the zoo.

When we got back, our room was the only room open. The bash suite was locked up along with the smoking room so people ended up hanging around the Stonecutter's Lodge until people started getting back. V.Dentata, Etoile and Kiki were the first to come by and saw the ropework done to Etoile. I decided not to take any pictures.

Now there was a cool game on the PSX, some fighting game where you could set the breasts to bouncing and non bouncing. It was interesting but after a while the breasts were just too distracting and the game play didn't look that fun. Then I ambled out to the bash suite and hung around while everyone played Lunch Money on the floor.

Fortunately, I was @witnessing at the time and I was able to get this log.