Okay, so Con.txt is this upcoming weekend already. And I'm going, probably by way of the metro, which means I'll be hauling a huge backpack around all day, with a Gryffindor logo on it, if anyone wants to find me. (How so soon? Ahh!) And on Friday night there's a theme dance, theme: the 70s. And I can't decide between two outfits. Help?

( The dress that's actually a few years too old to be the 1970s, but I really want an excuse to wear it in public while it still fits me like a glove. )

( The dress that *is* from the 1970s. 1976, to be exact. And is very very fun to wear and dance in. )

They're neither of them in terribly good condition and require some seam-reinforcing and ironing if I'm going to wear them for more than just dress-up clothes. Mom has also repeatedly tried to give me a "hand-crocheted vest and miniskirt set, you can't get more 70s than that, you could even wear the clown shirt with it!" Which, just. Um.

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It looks like the little black dress is winning in yesterday's poll! Which is good, because that'll be easier to pack around with me anyway.

(less than a week until my first con! Well, not my first con. My first girls' con, though.)

Alas, a convention for doing metafandomy stuff and I haven't even been keeping up with metafandom, because I just find hate memes *boring*. They can be mildly interesting as a way to learn old gossip, but nobody ever puts the juicy details in, so why bother?

( And yet, I'm too sleepy to know any better, so I'm going to anyway. )

*sigh* It's probably a very good thing that the anthro department at Maryland didn't impress me, or I'd be worse than Daniel already...

(Quidditch really does remind me of the Ball Game, though. Even more than Pyramid/Triad does. With the bludgers, and the vertical rings that look like giant bubble-blowers, and a way to end a game and make the rest of the play completely irrelevant. You know what? All it would take to make Quidditch make sense is to make it possible to end the game *without* catching the Snitch. Why didn't I think of that before?.. should I have put a section on Quidditch in my essay on the ball game? I can't believe I passed up a chance to cite Quidditch Through the Ages in an anthropology paper!)

Also? I know nothing about soccer, and even I could tell that the U.S. team played like crap yesterday. All would be going well, and then they'd get the stupid idea in their head that they should try to *score*, and that would be the end of that. Very sad. Also, the Czechs were not only much smarter players, they were even *cuter* than our guys. Alas.