I need to catch you up on my Michigan adventure. First the Detroit airport. Which I love
because they have one of those cool colorful tunnels that connects the consourses
and it changes color
a lot!
Connecting through Detroit always means a trip to Sora, in terminal A, near gate 36 
for sushi and miso soup.
The Michigan SCBWI conference was wonderful; extremely friendly (God, I love Midwesterners) and upbeat. Big thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
rj_anderson (aka She Who Helped With the Myspace Mess In August) for making the drive from Canada, and the conference organizers, and all of the attenders who made me feel right at home.
And there was a real-live reader there! Meet my new friend, Eliza Webb, whose mom was at the conference and who totally made my day by coming over to talk to me. 
Along with giving speeches and critiquing manuscripts and meeting kindred spirits, I snuck in a run on a beautiful autumn day. But truly, the highlight of the visit for me was this: Jello salad with Mystery Bits in it. This is a staple at United Methodist dinners, which were a staple of my childhood. If you read CATALYST and wondered about the Jello salad, this is what I was talking about. It's green, it wiggles, and it might be an ingredient in embalming fluid. But damn, it tastes good.So now I am in Oregon and I have been awake for a million hours. I am at the coolest hotel I have ever stayed at, and I had a great dinner with librarians, and a Famous Author wandered by, and I even worked for a couple hours on my revisions, but all those details will have to wait until after I get some sleep!
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
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secondly, remind me never to eat with you, because that was such a strong likelihood anyway. raw fishes are something ive never been brave enough to try, but im pretty sure i would be grossed out too much to actually evaluate it on its taste. as for jello salad, i have been attending a wesleyan church for the past 8 years, and as you may or may not know, wesleyanism broke off from methodism many years back, but retained the name of the founders of methodism, john and charles wesley. needless to say, mystery jello salad is a big part of my life.
thirdly, eliza is beautiful and makes me wish i was better at portraits than i am, cause i would totally paint her. maybe as a character from one of my favorite books. she has really unique/cool/charming features.
i think thats it from me.
:-)
And when did the Detroit airport get so cool? Last time I was there it was a dump!
I'm glad that you had fun at SCBWI.
I too have eaten the Mystery Jello Salad, which is why I deftly avoided it at SCBWI. Except that the more popular variations at our church potlucks involved orange jello and shredded carrots, or occasionally green jello mixed with Cool-Whip and marshmallows. *shudders*