Bit of Ivory

Just got back from S.Q.U.I.R.T.– which, for the uninitiated, stands for “Sugar Quillers in Utah Including Returning Travelers”– an SQ summit, basically. It was very fun. I picked up Jen (also known as S. Gwendolyn or just plain Gwendolyn) and her brother at 10:45, with Lisa in the passenger seat. We arrived at the unplottable location (a Carl’s Jr. in the south of the valley) at 11, and walked in to find Lilac already there with two of her (adorable) kids, as well as Lazaruspaste, who I had not met yet. We all introduced ourselves to each other, and got our food, and waited for Katinka to show up. We were quite excited to see that they had Squirt, the soft drink. Jen and I both got Squirts in tribute to our meeting.

Lilac gave everyone a HP journal, except me– she’d already given me one at HP night–, but she gave me a Hermione pen in tribute to my Hermione-ness at Nimbus. I took the opportunity to give Lilac her present that Jen and I bought– a purple peacock-feather quill and a bottle of lilac colored ink. I think she liked it.

Katinka showed up eventually– traffic was especially terrible, and she was driving up from Provo– with *her* two adorable kids, and we had a great time. All in all, we sat and chatted for 2 and a half hours about various aspect of the HP fandom– how we all got into it, our various fanfics, our reactions to OotP, James and Severus’ characters, and all sorts of other stuff. We enlisted a guy from the table next to us to take a picture, and he said– “So, what is this, some kind of Harry Potter fanclub?” Heh. We chatted with him and his two companions for a while about HP and SQ. They didn’t think we were as weird as most people do, because apparently two of them are just as into LotR as we are into SQ. One of the guys made note of the address, and we told him about some of the better stories– like HQoW, and Murasaki99’s LotR crossover. I think he might actually go and chex it out.

Lilac is just as cool as ever, Lazaruspaste has some great theories and opinions that we fun to discuss, and Katinka is– well, she’s a lot like Abby, her OC. I had a great time, and I hope we can all meet again soon.

Now, must go to work. *sigh* At least I’m not working again until Tuesday.