where my blog-hers at?

After 12 solid hours of non-stop traveling excitement, I arrived (basically) in one piece in San Diego around 10 p.m. local time last night. By the time I got through the heinously long wait at the Budget Rent-A-Car counter (during which time I watched not one, but two episodes of Animal Planet's "Fatal Attractions" and y'all that is another post for another day) the clock was ticking toward 10:30 and my total food consumption for the day looked a little like this: one bowl of Kashi cereal, iced coffee, half an apple and some cheese cubes.

Translation: HONGRY

I met up with my host for the trip, my brother's friend Josh, who you might remember from his cameo appearance in my San Diego posts back in June. (He's the one who recommended the awesome mixtape that I later found scribbled on a note in my phone but couldn't remember where the information had come from. I assumed "Magic," but later realized it was Josh.) He was having a drink with a co-worker at a place called the Regal Beagle, which notably taught me two things: 1.) a bar can, in fact, be located in a strip next to a dentist's office and still be cool, and 2.) there is a distinct possibility that I was completely wrong all this time that I thought I didn't like IPAs.

Sadly the Regal Beagle did not want to serve me any food, but our next destination -- you may recall tales from The Waterfront -- did, and I started off my second San Diego adventure right with some delicious fish tacos. And a PBR. Which, incidentally, was also delicious.

I got up this morning and headed for the beach and a coffee shop to get some work done, and now I'm at the convention center, badge acquired, locked, loaded and ready to completely and totally nerd out. Tonight the festivities get started with the opening of the expo hall in about half an hour, followed by The People's Party and an unofficial BlogHer party called Kiss Our Sass that is specifically for single gal bloggers.

And then tomorrow I signed up to run a 5K at 6:30 in the morning. But I think you probably already knew I was crazy before just now, so let's not act too shocked.

BlogHer 2011 is officially here, y'all. Let's get into some trouble.

cheers,

elizabeth