Probably the longest story in existance, but you don't have to read it if you don't want to. This is my story and I'm stickin to it:

The maddness started Saturday night. I had to train someone to close the restaurant so, unfortunately, I was there until 3 AM. I awoke at 7 am to brave my solo 3 hour tour to NJ.... sidenote- Coffee rules.

Took the directions off the V2K site and went over an hour out of my way through Philadelphia. Too many billboards in that city!! None the less, I arrived an hour early and picked up my tickets at The Stash first.

Got to the hotel and recognized 2 guys from The Stash. Going over and introducing myself was the best decision I would make for the next few days. The two guys ended up being Bill and Nate. A few minutes later, a 20 year old blonde man with the COOLEST English accent introduced himself to me as Adam (Bullocks on the boards).

After chillin in the bar for about a half hour, the 4 of us went outside for the tour. When we realized how many cars were there along with the fact that we would have no radio communication with us, we decided to jet and see the sites on our own. Highlights were: Freezing our asses of at Victory Park, taking a picture of Adam trying to find the perfect dozen of eggs at the Quick Stop, and invading the Marina Diner whose emplyoees seemed to barely realize that they worked in such a cool place. Oh, and they have shitty coffee, by the way.

We get back to the hotel, get our room key and go up. Bill opens the door to find people already inhabiting our room. The guy inside, pretty matter-o-factly told us that it was their room and we had to get another. Disconcerted, Adam and I stayed with the luggage while Bill and Nate went to get another room. Bill decides to see what he can get out of this deal and announces to the clerk how inconveniencing this whole ordeal was and that we deserved a suite out of this. The clerk handed him the key to the infamous room 509.

After settling into our suite, our evening was pretty uneventful. We ate a pretty good dinner at the restaurant but had some of the worst service ever. Bill's friend, Kevin, showed up to say hi as well. After dinner Bill, Adam and I went on a liquor run and arrived just in time. Upon returning, we drank in the room. Then was the overflowing toilet incident. After myself, Kevin and had already taken turns in the bathroom, Adam spent about half an hour "removing his contacts" and opened the bathroom door to reveal an overflowing toilet. We spent the next few hours blaming eachother for the event. I was accused of clogging it up with my "girly turds," Kevin sat there with a guilty look on his face and Adam (hit the hardest by accusations) defended himself by pointing out the length to which Kevin and I spent in the bathroom as well. No one ever admitted to being at fault, so I guess it will always remain a mystery . . . Hey, at least the Golgothan didn't make an appearance!

Next, we went downstairs to the bar to hang with everyone else. I hung out a lot with Rob (Rugmuncher) who bought me a drink and introduced me to "the important people" including Malcolm. I got to talk to him a bit about acting which was nice. Met a lot of great people, but this story is long enough with out all the names. This was the last time we were to see Bill's friend Kevin as he was destined to shack up with this blonde local chick that he met.

We awoke the next morning, I got into my Trish costume, and the 4 of us took a cab to the theater about 9 or so in the morning. I met some guys in the bar the night before who asked me if I wanted to sit with them in the theater (Bill and Nate were in theater 2, Adam and I had theater 1 tickets). After meeting up with them, we waited and waited. It was cold outside and they didn't end up letting us in until late, but it was well worth it. Adam told me later that as I walked by Kevin Smith at the front door, he had asked me if I was ditching school to attend, but my excited ass didn't hear him. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed at myself for not answering. Stupid Stupid Stupid!

Anyway, The Thon was awesome. I almost peed my pants laughing so hard at the Fat Albert scene. It really was great.

Drawing Flies was really interesting. Slow at first, but the ending was REALLY good. Jason Lee was "friggin phenomenal," and I told him so. There's a part near the end where, in my opinion, he showed the most talent that I've ever seen him show. My jaw was on the floor. When I raised my hand to tell Jason how much I admired his performance, he almost seemed honored that I felt that way. He really supprised me with his response. We found out later that during the taping of that scene Jason had been being stung by bees. Now THAT'S and actor!

A Better Place was definately my favorite film of the night. After the 2 films before, as soon as the credits rolled, so did the train of people out of the theater. After ABP ended, everyone just sat there, stunned. I know I covered my eyes at the end! Just an amazing film.

Intermission was a needed break. After Drawing Flies and ABP I was ready for a break. I was kind of drained from the seriousness and was ready for laughs. My origional crew along with Pat (DelaWhere) on the boards went to get food at Cluck You down the street thanks to the guy (sorry, I dont remember your name) who had heard me mention that I wanted to go there and 3 hours later returned to tell me the location.

We returned to the theater to see Brian O standing signing autographs. I got one for my brother who couldn't make it because of job commitments. He'll be a just a little happy when he gets his Christmas presents this year!

Anyway, back to the theater. We watched the 4 Clerks cartoons and, honestly, they were really funny. Damn ABC!

Big Helium Dog was, let me just say, really a guy movie. The main chick in it wasn't a very good actress. It had a cult movie kind of feel to it and I have to admit I was laughing quite a bit, but felt sort of guilty for finding some of the humor ammusing. What can I say, I'm a girl.

Adam and I decided to stay and watch the defense for "Employees." Not really worth the stay. Especially when we left the theater to find that our cab, that Bill had called, decided to leave because we were taking too long. We had to wait another half an hour or so for a cab to return.

Getting back to the hotel, I really wanted to go to sleep, but I decided to make a quick appearance at the bar before turning in. I should know better than to think I can only make a quick appearance at a bar. I stayed until we were threatend with arrest if we didn't leave. I was chillin talking to Chris (Violent Bob) when Pat (DelaWhere) called my name and signaled me to come over. Turns out Brian O was wondering who had a suite to take the after party to. I bolted up to the room and asked Bill and Nate if they would mind if Brian, Vincent and a few people from downstairs came up and hung out. 10 minutes later, we had about 60 people in room 509. I'm sure there are enough stories about this party, so I'll just say that I'll never forget it. And I'll have lots of fun rubbing in my brother's face that Dante partied in my hotel room!

After this, Bill, Chris and this other guy (I'm so sorry I forgot your name) decided to get some breakfast since it was 6 AM. Well, I kinda made Chris go. He was begging for me to let him leave, but I kidnapped him. The restaurant didn't open until 6:30, so we decided to wait. But when Bill fell asleep and was snoring in the loby chair, Chris decided to drive home (locally). This kinda killed the breakfast idea, so I just went up and went to bed. What a night, man, what a night.

The next morning, we cleaned up a bit and left. Adam and I split the left over beer (about 40 beers between cans and bottles). I took all the left over booze. Adam kept me awake on the way to dropping him off in Delawere where he was staying with a friend. He sent me a basket of flowers thanking me this morning. Those English guys are good peeps ;)

The next day I was in class by 9:30 and at work by 5. I was totally useless the entire day. Also, I dropped a pot of coffee on a customer and then, while trying to catch the coffee pot, spilled water from the water pitcher in my other hand on the table. Well, I guess its back to reality. If you made it this far, congrats. You must be really really bored to sit through that. I know my roommate is! She's heard the story 3 times already!

Thanks everyone. I had a friggin phenomenal time.

Love,
Jennifer
aka Jennifer_ann_7
aka Trish the Dish

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