Fictional love, poverty, Mrs Lestrange, horrible hairballs

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Kimberly:
> > I'm from St. Louis
> 
> Are you still there?  Because the very conference for which I am 
meant to be going to the US is going to be held in St Louis, from the 
29th of June to the 2nd of July!  

I've been here off and on my whole life - left various times for 
college/other studies, and most recently to work with some friends 
and a church in Mauritius, but I always come back - apparently I 
consider the place home.  It's not a bad place, although no great 
excitement most of the time, as is evidenced by the fact that I got 
home at 9:30 on this fine Saturday night.  Oh well.  

>Of course, as I gloomed on-list, my bank account is currently 
>looking so meagre I'm starting to wonder whether I can afford to go 
>at all, let alone embark on the USA-crossing globe-trotting trip I 
>really want to go on.  There is, as I am increasingly coming to 
>realise, one small problem with my liberating, bohemian, creative 
>escape from full-time work to impoverished writer status, and that 
>is of course the impoverished bit.

Well, I don't have any answers about getting you here, but if you 
have free time to fill while you're here I can give you the low-down 
on all the free stuff there is to do here - that is one up-side of my 
provincial midwestern home town - if you're not too picky there's 
quite a bit of free entertainment.  May I ask what the conference is 
about?

If you like, email me off-list moongirlk @ yahoo.com and I'll give 
you whatever scoop I can.


kimberly