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Anyway, I'm back! After a fabulous time in Salem and a looong work week, there's probably too much to write in one post, so I'll just do this randomly in bullet form:
- Salem was great! I've always wanted to go, and the four days there reminded me how much I would really like to live in New England. Just the history-filled atmosphere, the ocean, the excellent 17th- and 18th-century houses... okay, all of those sound like lame reasons but it's true.
- Salem is also a rather interesting little town; quite the mix of historical monuments and museums (Puritans, witch museums, old town hall) with new age-type stores (tarot readings, psychic places, handbooks on wicca). It also reminds me a bit of Wittenberg: cute small town that gets tons of tourists for one season out of the year but must be pretty dead otherwise.
- The Witching Hour conference was so fun! I actually didn't get to quite as many panels and discussions as I wanted to, due to sleeping late, but the ones that I did go to were interesting. But I felt kind of out of place, not having wizard robes or a Ravenclaw scarf (yes, I was sorted into Ravenclaw) or my own theories about who should hook up with whom in the books and what is going to happen in Book 7. People there were hard-core fans. It was great fun, but I don't think I'm going to the one in Vegas in 2006; don't have the money, and apparently an HP conference is not something that you just casually attend.
- Things that I bought in Salem: 'Save Ginny!' t-shirt from Harry and the Potters (band that played at the conference.. hilarious!); Gibraltars (America's oldest candy from America's first candy store); butter crunch; an umbrella (it rained nearly every day), admission to the Pirate Museum (arr!), the Witch Dungeon Museum, and the Witch History Museum; a pumpkin ale; and a Reuben.
I can't think of anything else at the moment, and it's time for lunch, so I'm off. How was your week?
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