Panache my ass.

I’ve reached the Project-Blog portion of Colleen’s weblog, where she says “this 24 hour thing is going to be a piece of cake!” It was her first blog marathon (Project Blog, last year), and it got me to thinking about my “success” in 2002, my second year in Blogathon.

I remember at the end of the event, at about 9 in the morning, a fellow Smith student who lived in my future campus house called me to say hello. I was delirious from the combination of caffeine and sugared food, sleep deprivation and the slight euphoria of having survived yet another ‘thon, and I remember describing to her how I had wrapped my head in a soaked t-shirt, turban-style, because it was “hot” out (I was blogging from my air-conditioned room). I think I ended up mumbling incoherently after a while, and eventually handed the phone over to my mother to say hi. In retrospect, I’m kind of mortified that I did that to Amanda, but it seemed the right thing to do then, and I can’t say it doesn’t provide an amusing memory when I look back. This year, however, I am the organizer / administrator / your-authority-figure-of-choice and I will make it through the event and into awards the next through days with nothing but grace, style and, as ever, panache.