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[livejournal.com profile] wildernessguru is buying me an early Christmas present: tickets to the men's figure skating nationals! It's really happening.

The hotel reservations are made. I have a room with a fridge and microwave to trim food expenses (and eat healthy).

I have the details on bus travel because [livejournal.com profile] wildernessguru balked at my taking the car over the pass. (Silly boy. I grew up in Michigan. Our roads were way worse -- solid sheets of ice with a melty layer of slush on top -- and we weren't allowed to use chains.) Amtrak takes 8 hours to do a four-hour drive, so Greyhound it is.

No, I didn't argue. (Much.) It's his car.

We buy the tickets tomorrow. [livejournal.com profile] wildernessguru (no fan of figureskating) isn't sure he wants to go. He can't get Friday off anyway, so he'd just go to the Saturday event if anything. I'm giving him one more day to decide before I pounce.

The plan:

Leave Thursday night (I'll miss one day of 2nd quarter Sanskrit).

Friday
7:30 - 9:30 Pairs warm-up
9:40 - 12:10 Women's practices
12:30 - 2:30 Men's practices (eeeeeeee!)

Then maybe:
5:10 - 6:20 Dance warm-up

Saturday
4:00 - 5:10 Men's warm-up
5:40 - 9:50 Men's Freeskate! (commence Beatles-style squealing)

I've followed men's skating off and on since Scott Hamilton took the gold in 1980. My mom's just as big a fan.

Oh my god, I'm going.


ETA: WG's decided his January schedule is too unpredictable and he may need to work that Saturday, so I'm going by myself-ness.

Tickets are bought. Paid for. On their way. My seats suck. Seriously. I'm gonna need binoculars. But maybe I can crawl forward.

All I need to get now are the bus tickets. *goggle-eyed* I know, I know, I don't get out much.

Date: 2006-11-27 05:39 am (UTC)
florahart: (Default)
From: [personal profile] florahart
The trouble with that pass when it's crappy is the native west-siders who go zipping over the top going west-to-east, lalala it's fiiiiine, and then spin themselves in alarming circles into the ditch (or, in at least one entertaining instance, actually across the grass median and into the ditch on the westbound side. Heh.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Oh yes. The stepdad (ex-drag racer) always said to "drive defensively" because "there are an amazing number of idiots on the road" (generally as he was drive Mach 12 and pulling off a hair-raising stunt like a slip-turn on a hairpin curve).

Icarus

Date: 2006-11-28 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
*frowns* That should read "was driving."

Date: 2006-11-27 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com
HOORAY! I hope you all have a wonderful time.

Merry early Christmas!

Date: 2006-11-28 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Wheeee! Oh, I can't wait.

Date: 2006-11-27 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slashpile.livejournal.com
Oh, fantastic! It's soooo nice that this is working out. The right gift at the right time... there should be a special blessing for that :)

Congratulations, and relentless squeeing from this quarter, because it's just too cool that you're going!

Date: 2006-11-28 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
there should be a special blessing for that :)

I think there is. *hums* This is going to be neat.

Icarus

Date: 2006-11-27 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twistedrecesses.livejournal.com
Fun and exciting!

Date: 2006-11-28 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
I'm especially looking forward to the practices.

Date: 2006-11-28 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twistedrecesses.livejournal.com
My question is what do they wear while they practice? Will you be getting more than your fair share of viewing tight asses in tighter tights?
:D

Date: 2006-11-28 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
I'm thinking spandex with fleece sweaters and fingerless gloves. :D

Date: 2006-11-27 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] webbapettigrew.livejournal.com
Oh, that's so neat!

Date: 2006-11-28 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Downright cool.

Date: 2006-11-27 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lherelenfeline.livejournal.com
Oh thats awesome!
I hope there'll be picures of La Weir to show, yes?

Date: 2006-11-27 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Well, he has a "bye" so doesn't have to go to the Nationals to be considered for the World team. He might be there. Also, we have to bear in mind that my tickets, well... the only way they could be worse is if I were outside the stadium.

All the good seats were reserved for the people buying the packages for all the performances. The single performance tickets got the worst seating. That works for baseball and football, but for skating photos? *snort* "Yes, that black dot is Johnny Weir... the yellow dot is Evan. Trust me on this."

Icarus

Date: 2006-11-28 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lherelenfeline.livejournal.com
well bugger...
I dont suppose WG would be ameable tothe idea of stalking the said bird?

Date: 2006-11-28 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
idea of stalking the said bird

Uh... what do you mean? (Genuinely confused here.)

Date: 2006-11-28 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lherelenfeline.livejournal.com
oblique reference to Johny's sawn costume, and the subsequent parage about Torino lookinf like a damn bird.

Date: 2006-11-28 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
That was one hell of an ugly costume. It's made my top ten worst (right up there with this fringe-constume I saw once).

Icarus

Date: 2006-11-28 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lherelenfeline.livejournal.com
I just found it hilarious. But then again Johny generally is entertaining.

Date: 2006-11-27 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harveywallbang.livejournal.com
awwww, but you're so happy about it. that makes me happy for you :)
i met one of the male ice skaters. not hamilton (though i saw him skate once)...i never remember his name, but he was a little guy. i was a kid, and they gathered us cancer kids together before the show and let us meet the stars.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Oh, now I'm dying of curiosity which one it was. You're sure it wasn't Hamilton? He was the most active with cancer patients, especially after his own chemo. What did the guy look like?

Icarus

Date: 2006-11-28 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harveywallbang.livejournal.com
he was short, brown hair. i wanna say a side part. i think his name was michael, or had michael in it somewhere... i was like...8 or 9....not that that was forever ago....but that was almost half my life ago.... wow...

Date: 2006-11-27 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emeraldjay.livejournal.com
Wish I could go out there, I'd be glad to join you, and we can oogle over the men.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Ogling is definitely part of the plan.

Date: 2006-11-27 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emeraldjay.livejournal.com
Guess I should add that I would even offer to drive, however, my bf says that is more of a threat than an offer.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
however, my bf says that is more of a threat than an offer.

Oh, ha. Then I think I'll drive.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cyanne
Yay. Oh that's so cool. Hope you have a blast. And I'm not just saying that because I want more of the fic.

Date: 2006-11-28 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
Oh, I plan to. This is going to be very interesting, I think.

Icarus

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