Thursday night Elena and I crossed over the state line to PA. The drive was good and we didn't get lost! When we got to Momo's we were going to go to a club, but decided to just stay in and watch movies since it was late. The next day Elena and I got up early and went to the convention center downtown. Philly's subways are so clean! NYC should be ashamed of themselves for being so filthy. 

Anyway, the first workshop I went to was how to inject properly. Up until my last injection I had no problems, but that changed. So because of that I decided to go to the workshop. I learned a new thing and everything is good. Elena got to inject and orange! She was scared. I then took her orange and injected it as well and my shot came out the hole she put in it like a little squirt. Lol. Elena also had a crush on the FTM presenter of that workshop.. Don-Don-Don-Don.

After we went to get something to eat since we were starving like dirty bastards at Reading Terminal Market. That place was awesome! Any type of food you could imagine and then some. In honor of our visit, when Momo met up with us, we ate cheese steaks. The best one I ever had too. We then headed back to the convention to go to a Healthy Relationships workshop that we all thought we should go to. The therapist in charge of that was cute. She made comments about her therapist shall and then took it off to reveal her therapist black turtle neck. Cute.

The convention itself was fun. It was nothing spectacular though. I finally did get to SEE a community. I've only met a few trans people here and there. There was definitely a large young FTM community going on there. I felt good to be there though. I saw a lot of LJ people, but felt too weird to approach them and just say.. "Yeah, I recognize you from LJ. Hi." I don't know. I did do that for one person since they are actually on my friends list.

After the other workshops we went to the Mini-Ball. It. Was. Awesome. If you've ever seen "Paris Is Burning" that's the type of ball it was. Where they vogue and all that shit. I don't know how they dance like that, falling all over the place, I would love to know. It's crazy. Once the ball was over we went and picked up Joe, Barb, and Liz to party at Momo's.. and party they did. Elena and I went to bed around 2 because we had to be up early. They didn't get to bed till like 6. The only reason I know this is because Barb got locked in the bathroom and she was banging on the door for Joe/Momo to open the door. I was hysterical laughing, yet didn't get up to help.. I was too cozy in bed. I felt her pain though because it happened to me twice before and once on this trip.

So Saturday we got up early to get to this special FTM workshop, but I was a few minutes late and didn't want to go in there while they were talking so we headed over to Reading again to eat at a diner. While online to get seated I look up and saw MARK SUMMERS. I could not believe it. Our eyes met and he knew that I knew, so he turned away and smiled. I was like, "Hooooly shit, Elena look who it is." I couldn't remember his first name right away, but I knew who it was. "The host of Double Dare.. You know the guy from the Food Network too!" It was sad though. If it was 1993 he would have been mauled by kids screaming Double Dare!

When we got back to the convention, Elena took a nap on a couch and I went to a workshop. It was interesting.. "Transer Than Thou". It was interesting, but seemed a little disorderly. Just a bit. The same with the next workshop, which happened to be my favorite, which was the Show and Tell: Chest surgery. We got to see some results first hand and made me think more about who I want to go to. The workshop was a little long and unorganized. It could have been better and more information packed, but oh well.

Once the convention was over we headed back to Momo's to meet up with everyone. There was an after party at Copa and they wanted to pre-game it. I had come pomegranate liquor that was very tasty. I'd buy it and I don't even drink. I guess that could change with this. So once everyone was good, we went to Copa for the conference after party, which was crazy.. smelly.. fun.. and smelly. Sorry, but the theme of the night was "anti-deodorant/soap and water". Blah. Other than that, we danced, we laughed, we sweated our asses off.

The ride back to Momo's was a scary adventure and a half, but I'll just reserve that to my memory. Once we got back we decided to leave Philly at like 5AM. I have lots of pictures.. Well, Elena and Reed do. I'll have to post them up soon.

India Farmer Has Cow That Eats Chickens

By Associated Press

Thu Mar 8, 9:00 AM

CALCUTTA, India - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame _ until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.

Moloy, who uses only one name, and his 1-year-old calf have since become local celebrities, with the carnivorous cow appearing on television in India's West Bengal state and hundreds of people flocking to see them in Chandipur, a village 145 miles southwest of Calcutta, the state capital.

"To catch the culprit, Moloy got up very early ... and to his disbelief found that it was his calf which came out from the cow shed and was eating the chickens alive," Debjyoti Chatterjee, a local resident who filmed the calf eating a chicken, said Thursday.

The local veterinarian was at a loss for an explanation.

"I've never read or heard about cows turning carnivorous," said Mihir Tripathy. "They eat grass and other vegetarian food but not fish or other non-vegetarian stuff."

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/03/08/605260.html

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Okay, in 10 years cows will be chasing people getting their grub on--YES/NO? Revenge of the Cow!