Thursday at the Readers Studio 2008

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Having run off several promotional copies and packaged up and sent the master disk of the James Wanless video to the replicator’s on the way to the airport, I enjoyed a brief period of just sitting on the BART train to the airport, grateful not to be staring at a video monitor, contemplating the weekend to come at The Tarot School Readers Studio, presented by RuthAnn and Wald Amberstone.

After an uneventful overnight flight (unlike some of my companions!), the Darling Husband and I arrived at the hotel in Newark, New Jersey just before 7:00 am on Thursday. (For those of you who know what I’m like in the morning, you will find astonishing the simple fact that I was vertical and reasonably coherent. For the rest of you who’ve never had to deal with me in the early hours of the morning, you can take my word for it that this is astonishing.)

The front desk clerk said one of the nicest things a person can hear after an overnight flight: “Your room is ready.” We promptly deposited our bags in the room, made our way to the hotel restaurant, and devoured breakfast. On our way back to the room, I spied the hot tub and decided a soak would be the ideal thing to help me sleep. So off I went to the hot tub at 8:00 am – only to find that it was closed until 10:00 am. On my way back to the room, I met Paul Nagy in the elevator (nothing like meeting someone for the first time when one is jet lagged and clad in 1940s style swimwear!), and we had a pleasant conversation about the upcoming events. I went back to the room and consoled myself with a quick soak in a tub without jets, and passed out.

The Darling Husband had business in Manhattan, and to my amazement (and perhaps his own) managed to pull himself out of bed and into publicly presentable form in the early afternoon. At 2:00 pm, I finally managed to crawl from the bed to the desk to plug in my laptop and check on things at the day job, with clients, and with the video. Everything seemed to be fine, so I managed to get through something like my usual grooming routine and assemble myself into a (mostly) functional person. One last email check (always a mistake!) before heading downstairs to register – then, 45 minutes later, I grabbed my bag of cards and notebook and raced to the lobby to pick up my badge and attend the evening session.

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