2004-05-24 - 8:47 p.m.
I cannot recommend this highly enough to all of you: if you have the chance, spend some time with Kelly, because she is indescribably wonderful and you will never, ever forget it.Kelly spent a few days here this weekend, and we drove around, lazed on the couch talking for hours, watched movies, spent a couple of nights out in the pub at what became a sort of impromptu Regina Bloggercon meetings (Palinode, Schmutzie, Friday, and Laili-6 were there, as well as Friday's P., who apparently has an account at Diaryland that he never uses, which either makes him the least or the most cool of the Regina Bloggers, depending on perspective), whooped it up in a karaoke bar and now that I think of it never heard "Sweet Caroline" once, did more couch lounging, geeked out on Family Guy episodes, ate characteristically goodbad Reginan pan-Asian food, drank beer and Jim Beam, and laughed more or less constantly for three days.
It was a remarkable weekend, and it's only right that I should devote the only real "diary" entry on Mirabile Visu so far to its account. To have had a weekend like mine, as fun and as lazily spellbinding as it was, as Diarylandy at times as I figured it would likely be, and then to follow it up here with the sort of... only one word catches it... dross that I typically write would just seem wrong.
Yet not to worry -- those of you mentally and spiritually baroque enough to enjoy that dross will be pleased to know it will be back shortly. I'd say "I promise," but "I couldn't stop the dross if I tried" is probably much more apt.
But, still, this: if you have the chance, spend some time with Kelly because she is indescribably wonderful. You will never, ever forget it. That I promise.
