Astral Slide

Have (ahem, finally) made plans for the race to the finish of 2004. A strange year - the ups were downs and caused the downs that were ups and nothing met expectations and everything was utterly familiar and the same.

Sorry. It's either the cabin fever or the lack of drugs and alcohol for 4 days that are causing it.

Where were we? Oh yeah.

So, I bought a ticket to NYC to go to Astral Slide, the NYC decompression. I'll hang there for 2 weeks to interview - just like when I was there this summer, except this time i'll actually interview. And then down to Orlando for a week for Christmas. Then back here (Portland) for New Years. Or possibly, LA or SF. We'll see. So many variables.

Schedule:
Now-Dec 3: Portland (30% chance of a Seattle trip)
Dec 4- Dec 20: NYC (10% chance of Connecticuit, 40% chance of a sidetrip to Boston)
Dec 20-Dec 26: Orlando (97% chance of going insane)
Dec 26-New Years: TBD.

disorien4, as always, will have a full presence there as always. you can see the party at Two Boots here. Yes, that's our friend and (cue: ballad music) Secret Blogggeeerrrrrrrr. That's what you are... Kate. And friend Steph, who I'll be dining with for Thanksgiving. Joel Bloom! You are to meet these people. Or at least go to decomp.

Here's what the Astral Slide site has to say about that event.

: "We spent our time in the desert wandering among the stars, and now it is time to come down, to reenter our bodies. To shed cold space for warm contact, to trade the rhythms of planetary movement for the pulse of living blood. Welcome to Astral Slide- descend from the Vault of Heaven. "