Warm Fuzzies About TAM6

UnrepentantSinner said:
Oddly enough I think this was the first time we spent much time shooting the breeze and I enjoyed our conversation immensely (along with the other people at the table).
Click to expand...

You're right. I think we crossed paths several times at early TAMs, but never had a chance to chat much. Very enjoyable conversation on Sunday.

By the way, did Patricio buy your dinner at Peppermill?


Cleon said:
Agreed. I hung out with Sam--er, Phil? Sam? Let's just call him "Pham"--at TAM 5.5 and 6. Very cool guy.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Cleon. I can say the same thing about you.

And here is that post of yours from the TAM 6 - what do you look like thread that had me laughing for two days straight:

Cleon said:
Phil said:
Just in case anyone is trying to pick me out of the crowd using it, I don't look a thing like my avatar.

I'm a beautiful Asian woman with a tattoo of a dragon covering my entire back. And I'm not shy and don't carry stuffed animals around. I just make a point of kicking Scrut in the nuts every chance I get. It's kind of a running joke we've had for the last 6 years.
Click to expand...


There are the heebies...


The Central Scrutinizer said:
I want to make love to you. I dig Asian chicks.
Click to expand...


And now the jeebies. :boggled:
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
saganite said:
I don't know about anybody else. All I know is that I wait for this weekend like a port in a storm. It's the one weekend out of the year that I get to meet new people and really--truly--be ME. Not some quieter, more conservative version of me. Not the glib, pop culture-savvy version of me. ME. And the people I've met are amazing. And the things I'm learning are amazing. It's all amazing. They should include "amazing" in the name of the conference.

I'm suffering from an incurable case of the warm fuzzies. Is anyone else?
Click to expand...

I totally agree, TAM is the best week of my year, and i really have a great life outside of skepticism and TAM, so that says a lot....

I basically just arrived home 12 hours ago... (after a loong plane trip), and.. well. i am having some huge withdrawals.. i'm sure i'll do better in a week or three..

Oh, and damn you barstards that have a skepchick/skepdude at home to share your time with....

guess i need to find a skepchick and get her to move to denmark :rolleyes:
 
My husband Dannyness and I had an awesome first TAM. I have piccys of both the stack of cash used at Quark's and Tobias's European Wang. Let me know if any of you want to see. :D
 
yawn! just back and even the 30 hours lack of sleep on the journey won't stop me coming back next year :-)
 
A rather long warm fuzzy, but here goes....

Thursday I don't think I talked to anyone. Exept the bartenders, who I tend to get along with, having been one myself.

Friday, during the day, I don't think I spoke to anyone either, aside from (again) the bartenders and a local couple I talked business with at lunch (talking with strangers I'll never see again is easy). But I was starting to relax, despite Vegas.

Friday night, I got into a conversation with Tobias and Dr. Adequate, which later involved other JREFers, that lasted til sunup, and it was then that it really sank in that I didn't have to watch what I said all the time (which is my daily experience).

By Saturday evening I was quite at home at the Garden Bar.

Sunday I even ventured out to the Nuke museum with other forumites.

This is a big deal for me.

Monday, I'm back home, and I'm feeling good and relaxed, despite the jet lag... until I venture out for supper, having depleted my fridge before I left.

There, I was reading a back issue of Skeptic I'd bought at TAM, which featured an image of a ouija board on the page I was reading when the waitress noticed it and asked what I was reading.

I told her it was an article on facilitated communication with autistics, and that seemed to satisfy her, but she launched into a description of her experiences with the paranormal.

Another waitress came by and asked "What book is that?"

The old knot re-tied itself in my stomach.

I simply held up the magazine so she could see the cover. She squinted a bit and nodded.

Tuesday I returned to work. With the painting of Jesus in the hallway. The call to devotional at 9:15. The solicitation of prayer requests for the monthly newsletter.

I had to assign one of my writers to select scripture for our email subscribers.

The iron maiden closed in around me. I could feel the anger, the paranoia, the misanthropy returning like some latent disease.

But at least now I know that there's a group of skeptics meeting at a bar -- one I know well -- every month in the nearby metropolis.

At least now, 12 times a year, I'll again be in the company of people I can be relaxed and easy with.

Thanks, TAM.
 
Aw, Piggy. Your post perpetuated my warm fuzzies.

And I know exactly what you mean about that post-TAM glow...it almost physically hurts once it wears off, but for those few hours after you've arrived home, the world seems so much more welcoming and...well...filled with people like YOU.
 
Piggy, I don't think I met you. Unless it was Wed night, when I was really drunk.

Are you in any of the pictures? We'll have to visit at TAM VII.
 
TobiasTheCommie said:
guess i need to find a skepchick and get her to move to denmark :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Perhaps if you worked up a better meet-n-greet method than assault with a fluffy phallus.... That only works on gals like me, and I'm old and married. :p :D

This was my first TAM and although I don't suffer much from the shyness, it was nearly impossible to meet all of the cool people because I was simply spoiled for choice. This is an awesome community of smart, silly, fun people and I'm going to do my level best to get to know as many of you as I can in the virtual world so that next year's TAM will feel like a homecoming.
 
saganite said:
I know exactly what you mean about that post-TAM glow...it almost physically hurts once it wears off, but for those few hours after you've arrived home, the world seems so much more welcoming and...well...filled with people like YOU.
Click to expand...

That's exactly what it felt like!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom