Emerging Writers’ Festival – The Semi-Drama Before It Even Began

June 1, 2009

I’m home, everyone. What a weekend. I don’t think I slept more than a few consecutive hours each night. I’ll write about it in stages over this week, as I am quite tired.

It was an exciting Friday afternoon. Some of you may know that central Melbourne was partially evacuated due to a chemical leak.

That was me.

Behold what I saw when I looked out my hotel window mid-afternoon:

The beginning

Uh. That looks a little funny…

The plot thickens...

(Several minutes later)
That’s looking pretty serious. I wonder what’s going on?

Masks on - they're going in!

Um. He’s going in! WITH A FULL MASK ON. I think I’ll get out of here for a while…

So I left my hotel as I was getting a bit suspicious (also: PARANOID) When I came back three-quarters of an hour later, I couldn’t get back in!

Big block-off

(See that yellow motel sign? Yep, that was me. Turned out if I had stayed they would’ve come up and thrown me out anyway.)

I didn’t get back inside for another 90 minutes. That didn’t matter – I went and met Adele in the meantime!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post – my host’s introduction speech to ‘The Revolution will be Downloaded’ panel, which went smashingly well, thanks.

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Jayne June 1, 2009 at 9:35 am

If you could survive that intro to your weekend, Karen, anything else would have been a piece of cake !

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Mistress B June 1, 2009 at 1:06 pm

what Jayne said! lol

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genevieve June 1, 2009 at 2:47 pm

And you didn’t turn a hair on Sunday! you amazing writer, you. Lovely to meet you, Karen.

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Karen (miscmum) June 1, 2009 at 2:57 pm

J & MB – well, I don’t know about that, but it was pretty interesting Fri!

Gen – you too, my gorgeous new friend, even though we’ve ‘kind of’ known each other for a while now through bloggy-land ;) xxxxxx

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