A Call To Dinner! and also: Dreams - They Don't Actually Mean Anything - Right?

[sisabet]

So - anyone attending Vividcon that wants to join us for beer and deep dish pizza Friday night (and we plan on being back at the hotel before 7pm cause we all have to get ready for Club Vivid. And I need something sparkly to wear...) comment here. We need a headcount - I think f1renze is looking into arrangements... although as I was falling asleep last night it suddenly hit me - are we making reservations for pizza?? Do they do this in Chicago?

Then - because of where my mind has been lately (which is mainly reading rageprufrock's Conflicts of Interest. Seriously, I like read all of my nephew's Teen Titans cause Conner is in that, too. Alas - he is not *this* Conner. This Conner scares me with my own reaction. I find I have a fierce maternal side when confronted by certain child-types and he hits every one of those buttons. I can practically feel myself morph into Martha Kent. Any more of this and I will be baking pie and calling people "dear"!***) that I dreamed I was going out for pizza with Lex Luthor and he was my dad and I was still me, but shorter, and it was taking forever to get to the pizza place because he had to make reservations and then Spiderman was there, at the next table, with Wolverine because they are friends and it just got wacky after that.

And now - as a result of this dream - when I finally get around to the multi-fandom fic that lives in my head and that starts out "Indiana Jones walks into a bar." (cause I ask you - how can there be any bad in that?) I will still have Spike and Pacy whooping it up in the VIP section - pouring Cristal all over everything and chanting "Indy! Indy!" when they see him come in. I will still have Indy ignore them to go meet Wesley in a booth in the back to discuss a prophecy. I will still have Spock, drinking alone. ("And Spock drinks alone.") But now - now I have Spiderman and Wolverine hanging at a table near the door and Logan not letting Peter order anything because he is underage and having the waitress refuse to serve him cracks Logan up. On the inside, of course. On the outside he just glares, but on the inside he does cartwheels.



*** You too can read and obsess over Conflicts of Interest here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=rageprufrock&keyword=Connerfic:+%22Conflicts+of+Interest%22&filter=all

Comments

[rageprufrock.livejournal.com]

...aren't you like, at work or something?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well yeah. But I am really unfulfilled at my job and I can kinda do it without 100% concentration for the most part. Then I have massive anxiety freakouts that I am gonna be fired and then I end up getting a commendation or a pat on the back or something so I really have no judgement when it comes to that.

And I have to get a headcount for pizza - and then I remembered my dream and it was directly related to both Pizza and your story - so I had to share.

I have a lot of freedom in this tiny tiny little cubicle. Now I will go back to reading about bimalleoar ankle fractures and waiting to see if we are gonna get any kinda free lunch today. Pizza!! I want Pizza!

[rageprufrock.livejournal.com]

The really depressing thing is that you probably STILL have a more fulfilling job than I do. My boss just called me upstairs a while ago to say "major wrench" in project. You can transfer your "getting fired" vibes to me, I'm PRAYING to be sent home. Like, PRAYING.

Of course, pizza rocks. :)

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

I just called Giordano's at Rosemont (3 minutes from the hotel!). They don't take reservations for Friday and Saturday nights but they said that we most likely will get seated easily because they don't start to get busy until around 5:30.

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this doesn't mean we don't need a headcount. Cause I'd like to call ahead anyway and try to get them to prepare the table before we get there.

And you icon is from 2003...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

We can probably call Friday during the day with the time and # -- and yep - this is a VVC 2003 icon. I don't have a 2004 icon cause it has not happened yet. But I will - I totally will...

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

As a former waitress, I applaud your calling ahead! Groups larger than eight are hard to handle on the fly, and it makes the experience much more pleasant when the waitstaff is prepared for you.

[just-eunice.livejournal.com]

Can you put me down for a maybe? I'd like to do some kind of hanging out activity on Friday since I probably won't be going to Club Vivid.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I am gonna like glue you to me or something - will that work?

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I want to ditch the family and hang out with you guys. If I can manage it, will you go to the Club and be a wallflower with me? Think of it as a great opportunity to collect blackmail material.

[permetaform]

I can practically feel myself morph into Martha Kent.

XD

oh man I so very want to post our spazzing over the connor!fic...I'll change it to our lj names and post, no?

Oh! you did get in touch with pru so that she could rave at you personally without me acting as middleman? =)

[rageprufrock.livejournal.com]

*dies* What, all that raving that I saw last night? *dies* Hi-lar-ri-ous.

In other news, yes, she did get in contact with me.

[permetaform]

there was much dying. MUCH.

oh! just out of curiosity, how did *you* get into SV? 'cause if sisabet hadn't gotten into SV through This Too, there wouldn't have been Without You I'm Nothing, and thus I wouldn't have started vidding. ::giggles:: wonderful how that goes, really.

[rageprufrock.livejournal.com]

One of my friends from school gave me the URL to her lj, where she'd recced "Bare the Cross" by CJ Andre, and then the entire thing went down. *sobs horribly* THEN MY LIFE WAS OVER.

[permetaform]

XD

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

yes, yes, and hee - yes!

[heresluck]

That'll be root beer for me, but I'd still like to tag along.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Um... I already had you down. Hee.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Do they do this in Chicago?

Hell yeah they do!! Don't you know how important pizza *is* in Chicago? My God woman. I am so ashamed. ;)

When ya'll are in downtown you have to do me a *huge* favor. Go to Goldcoast Hotdogs and get a thing of chedder fries. It's *important* that you do this, since I am not there to physically *drag* you there. I don't know what street corners it's on, but if you call information when you're in Chicago they'll tell you. There's only one. Hehe...

Ooo! And take *lots* of pictures of downtown for me. Of building and such. Please... Why is it that I seem to be more excited that you are all going to Chicago than going to VVC? ::sigh:: God I miss my hometown. LOL.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dude - this will probably be the only time I leave the hotel. Unless it is for pancakes. And the hotel is not downtown. Seriously - VVC is all about the vids and the vid talk for me. I am certain Chicago is nice, though...

[piper47.livejournal.com]

When I go next year, I am *dragging* you do see the city. It may be all about the vids, but you can't be in Chi-town and not see the beautiful city. ;)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

No - there are other times I am in Chicago - seriously - this is about the vids.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I would love to hang out with you guys if you'll have me. ;-)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

::thinks really hard about it::

Silly! Of course we want you there. Or at least, I do. And this is my invite. I am so excited I am kinda shaking right now. It is a mild kind of vibration.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

I'd love to meet up for pizza & beer on Friday! Especially since I can't do dinner on Saturday, since I've volunteered to do set-up for the premieres show.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dinner on Saturday! WHO CAN EAT!!??

::ball of nerves::

but so glad you're in.

[destina.livejournal.com]

I'm in, man. I don't have to talk, do I? Okay, cool. *g*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

You just have to sit there and let us look atcha! And also talk if you want to. Mainly eat. Yep - your duties end at gracing us with your presence and eating!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I'd love to go if it's an open invite. And I'll try to drag pipsqueaky along as well. :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Yay! We love you! And we love Pips!

::so excited::

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to pass out from the excitement. How will I last 9 more days?

[pipsqueaky.livejournal.com]

Consider me dragged. Ha! Would love to have pizza with y'all.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Can I come?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Friday pizza sounds great! I am somewhat lacking in the transportation department, though.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I think we will be able to cobble together enough vehicles. I have a car that seats five. If I clean it out...

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Cool. Yay for squishing with people *G*

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

amireal, one of my roomies, is interested in coming to.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Pizza in Chicago? Surely you jest! But it sounds like a cool idea. *g*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I am now imagining a hungry horde of vidders descending upon this poor restaurant like a plague of something that really wants pizza!

Oh, why can't every day be VVC!?

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

May I come, too?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Absotively!

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Yippee! We can eat pizza and then you guys can all watch as I turn into one!

Behold the power of cheese!

I love pizza.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Me and Tiff! Me and Tiff!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!

::dances on ceiling like Lionel Ritchie::

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

Pete and I would LOVE to go out with you all!!! Count us in.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Your in! And Whoo and also Hoo!