My Dossier: Very dangerous. Do not handle at all.

1) Stop playing with elysium1996 's dogs, and get ready to go to NYC.
2) Do my morning check in with my Dad.
3) Play tourist in NYC as I've never been there.  bubbleslayer  is excited about this.
4) Try not to get kicked out of the country.
5) GO TO THE GLEE CONCERT AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL!

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People I have met via LJ, who I have also met in person:

elysium1996   (By default, I need to add Mr. Ely here!)
bubbleslayer 

While there are a variety of people who I first came in contact with on LJ who I have also met in person, that was much more IRL, particularly Polaris related.  If you are one of those people, please don't be offended if you're not on this list!  It doesn't mean I don't think you're awesome.

People I have met via LJ that I would like to meet in person:

Everyone else, but I'm listing a couple of people who I have known the longest on LJ, who I am totally trying to wrangle invites to visit, now that I have a passport and all.  What subtlety?

indomitable_one 
1frabjousmama 

If anyone else would like to offer a recently granted passport holder a place to stay, I would not say no!

Right now, I'm scheduled to be on the following panels:

Torchwood 3

The polarizing effect of Gwen Cooper-Williams

Primeval: where Spy will be asking if ITV has been taken over by suit-wearing monkeys. (My own subtitle)

I may or may not be on the following panels:

The myth of Fandom tolerance (not sure what's happening there, but I'll probably be on this one, but don't want to say for sure, until I get confirmation).

Donna Noble: Still made of awesome (I have a feeling this one may be my fault I'm not on it, if I'm not.)

Either way, whether I'm on five panels or 3, it doesn't really matter. The announcement that Torchwood should be airing the week of July 4th means that my goal of making it the BEST!ATTENDED!POLARIS!PANEL!EVER! is actually a possibility.

Top five reasons I'm looking forward to Polaris this year.

bubbleslayer & seanchaidh. I'll even be on panels with them (and enkanowen )! (I am still trying to convince elysium1996 & Mr. Ely to come north of the border! I'm also hoping takhys might come and bring along lokabrenna -- as there are art contests, lokabrenna!) I am planning to drag everyone to the video room to throw popcorn, randomly at nexstarman , because that would amuse me, as long as
indefatigable42 was in on the plan. My BFF, travellingone will also be there but she'll probably be a lot like snuffalupagus: almost impossible to find, while others insist she just went that way, talking on the headset! bubbleslayer, seanchaidh and myself may need to devise a plan, probably involving mojitos, to kidnap her. (If you're going to Polaris and I haven't mentioned you, remind me so that I can squee appropriately.)

The opening ceremonies: I wrote them and got at least one of my dream casting. I also got to vet the announcers and will be looking for sound. When I post a "where do I find this sound effect" post, I hope people can help!

The Primeval Panel: I expect people to bring their own trees to climb, and stay there, indefinitely. I will also have the 2 foot stuffed dino with me from the opening ceremonies (and no, you don't get to find out what that 2 foot dino is for!)

The Torchwood Panel: see my BEST!ATTENDED!POLARIS!PANEL!EVER! plan.

The Contests: After coming second in the really, really, short writing contest last year (one recipe card in size) I'm inspired to do another one.

( This is going to be told in third person narrative because it's going to be posted on our blogs and other places )

And that concludes day one of Polaris 22.