Owning up to it
Oct. 30th, 2010 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanYears ago, I happily wore one of the FOMS ribbons ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tammylc was handing out. When in convention mode, my fear of missing something clearly contributes to my tendency to skip sleeping in favor of, well, just about anything. Yes, I know about the 5-2-1 rule. My own application of it is supplemented by carnyjack's, drwhuh's, kaffyr's, and my long-held truth: Food is Sleep. (Sleep is not food, but food is sleep.)
Today I acknowledge that it's not just conventions. FOMS is one of my core traits; it's who I am.
And that's why I'm up and ready to head to the Metro at such an unlikely hour. The hotel I'm meetingdebgeisler, benveniste, and smofbabe across the street from the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. I can easily spend another 60-90 minutes reading letters sent to Ephraim George Squier 150 years ago before I join them for the day's main event, the Rally to Restore Sanity (and/or Fear).
I'm so there. Luckily, it's in person rather than watching it live on the intertubes starting at noon.
The schedule.
tammylc was handing out. When in convention mode, my fear of missing something clearly contributes to my tendency to skip sleeping in favor of, well, just about anything. Yes, I know about the 5-2-1 rule. My own application of it is supplemented by carnyjack's, drwhuh's, kaffyr's, and my long-held truth: Food is Sleep. (Sleep is not food, but food is sleep.)Today I acknowledge that it's not just conventions. FOMS is one of my core traits; it's who I am.
And that's why I'm up and ready to head to the Metro at such an unlikely hour. The hotel I'm meeting
debgeisler, benveniste, and smofbabe across the street from the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. I can easily spend another 60-90 minutes reading letters sent to Ephraim George Squier 150 years ago before I join them for the day's main event, the Rally to Restore Sanity (and/or Fear). I'm so there. Luckily, it's in person rather than watching it live on the intertubes starting at noon.
The schedule.
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Date: 2010-10-31 06:55 am (UTC)The stage was set up at 3rd Street West so the Capitol was directly behind it. We were between 4th and 5th Street West, somewhat more south than north, but fairly near the center. The rally stretched back to 7th Street officially and overflowed that space.
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Date: 2010-10-31 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-31 12:40 pm (UTC)I was pretty close to the front for mine, and really don't know how much we filled the Mall. (There was also a breast cancer marathon rally on the opposite end by the Lincoln Memorial.)
A few days ago I caught footage of the March on Washington in '63, was...thrilled, is guess is the best word, to think that I'd gotten to do my version of the same.