US embassy in Tunis,
Yasser,
Wii Strikers, EC
So I am "preparing" for Tunisia. Its 2:28 and I haven't touched the suitcase needed in 17 hours when I leave at 19:30 for London. What awaits me there, you ask? Your imagination might have more insight than I. I've been talking to
Nisha (from @Illinois) about these "preparations" and I think the US is ready to take the conference by storm. I figure as long as we can keep a constant inundation of energy no one can beat out the loudest and proudest @ country: @ USA! Though I hope we come out on top of this energetic heap I hope even more for the competition leading to it. and i digress...
The US embassy will hopefully help us out in Monastir. It would be pretty cool to have them swoop in to help rep america.
Yasser Hammami is the man with the plan of the CC when it comes to this conference. He's the head honcho for delegates to speak to and he has done a terrific job setting us up for success here. He left his phone number on an email so we skyped him (BOOM!-Steve Jobs) and then figured out he was a fellow skyper. One crazy and ansdfa0er-ed conversation later we figured out a few key things about this conference:
-no internal global village.... = no liquor exporation = no fun games to come up with to rep USA
-the @ network works. We have hookups in Tunis or Sfax (pronounced "fax" if you say it fast enough) once we hit the ground
-Apparently tunis has a good club scence... Tunis... prepare.
I had a terrific EC meeting. Despite some slight opposition to the site (thanks powerpuff) we went to cafe intermezzo to have what may have been the most insightful EC meeting to date. I thank the belgian for that.
At somewhere around 2 in the morning I requested Justin's attendance to the Ben-James-dominates-Mario-Strikers-tour happening in a town near you! He attended and was fully dominated. YESHHHHHH.....
on a last and terrific note to those who care: My love life has had the sweetest thread weaving in and out of my life's fabric. Its currently dominated by worldly aspirations, the privaledge of the presidential burden, the electrical engineering chaos of class, the race of the clock, the battle against motivation, the refueled fire of musical passion (m-audio keystudio 49! thanks ma!), the slight onslaught of female options that always comes with dating complacency, and my own ongoing battle with stagnancy yet there seems to be a shining, sweet thread weaving ever so cooly in and out of the patches, in and out of the colors changing its own form to support whatever overall theme the pattern is going for, and frustratingly never becoming dominant enough to command the picture.
I apologize for any esoteric material covered in my blogs. This is the last time I'll apologize for such a thing. I try to not hinder the flow with any inclusive-only filters.
And for the last of my minds rambling...
I am mentally preparing again for an all out effort for this conference. My most successful example of this was WSC 2007. I had a way of motivating myself to always get up in the morning despite the lack of sleep, to always have energy for the room, and (most importantly) to always be interested in the person I was talking to... seeking whichever quality of them which I adore which I inevitably would find. This belief led me to seek out those I didn't typically seek and to dive deeper into those I already dug, ya dig?
Echoing Quotes from my ears past that might help me in the coming 2 weeks of insanity:
"when meeting new people, assume connectedness"
