If only you guys really knew. . . Marissa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of robert tweedy Sent: Mon 3/21/2005 9:26 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN Are you telling us Marissa is a party girl? Cool.----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison Hilliker" <allison.hilliker@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:33 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN > Hi guys! > > This is just the usual Allison now subscribed under my other email > address. > I set vacation mode for CSUN, and then decided I didn't wanna stay using > that email anyway, so resubscribed. > > I'm back from L A and still living. I think that, if I > work on it, I may even remember what went on there. All the palm trees, > the > square dancing, and eight hundred and three people crowding the Benetech > booth made it a pretty wild time, all be it now just a lil blurry in my > mind. > > It was my first CSUN, and I had a blast. Being able to be there with > Bookshare made it even better. And in response to everyone's two most > burning questions. Yes, the Bookshare bunch is just as nice, and as > totally > weird, as they seem over the list. And, yes, I was the one who tipped off > the police as to where Pratique was. Sorry Prat! But they were offering > me > money, and I need it to afford all the purchases that CSUN lead me to > wanna > make! Seriously guys, there is some really amazing stuff there. I loved > walking the exhibit halls, It was incredible, I really want it all! Bad > things really could happen to my credit card at that conference. > > I liked being able to get to know a lot of you in person while there. > Donna > was a complete sweetheart and rescued my Braille Note for me. Noel and I > discovered some shared writing interests. I finally grasped that E, on > the list, and the woman called Liz in the volunteer meeting are actually > the same > person. I learned all about Darrell's obsession with Tom Clancy. And > Pratique? > Yup, a great guy, but Well, yeah, we already know what happened there. > > Bookshare did a small volunteer gathering that I thought went very very > well. There were some great people with some really good ideas. > Marissa did a nice job at that meeting keeping everybody in line and on > topic. That said, I think I preferred the after hours Marissa at the > bars, > but that's a whole other story! <smile>. > > Now I'm off to go try and get myself back into the mind-set of school and > work. <sigh>. > > Allison > > > >