Life Goal

One more life goal was met last week - hearing and meeting Lauren Winner! Here's a brief recap of the tour:

9:07pm - leave A2, after picking up mats to sleep on from the Steiner's
11:05pm - arrive in GR, go to the Fick's house
11:11pm - see a black cat dart across the road while driving to the hot dog place (and the next day was Friday the 13th)
11:26pm - eat hot dogs at Yesterdogs
12:37am - watch my first episode of The Office
1:10am - sleep
(3:34am - Emma Liou born in Ann Arbor)
8:05am - wake up (sorry, Hattie, for not getting my alarm right away!)
9:18am - leave the Fick's
10:34am - get in line to get into the auditorium
11:30am - get seats in the auditorium
12:27pm - try to 'wake up' the man sitting next to me, who in turn had to be carried out of the auditorium and rushed to the hospital because he wasn't responding - quite an adventure, and this all happened while Lauren was being introduced and right at the beginning of her talk
12:34pm - Lauren's talk - she talked from her book Real Sex about lies that our culture tells us about sex (that premarital sex will make you feel lousy, and that women don't want sex). She took a few questions from the audience, mostly about singleness in the church.
1:31pm - talk is over :(, dart out of the auditorum super-fast and get in line for book signing
1:37pm - Lauren signs my book
1:45pm - in the car on the way home

Another road trip, anyone?