august 12th, 2005
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my vegas experience!
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6:56pm

i'm going over to jason's now because i have not seen him for days!
i mean, he was over here today but it took me all day to put these pix up for you so i haven't really SEEN him seen yet.
i need to go snuggle!!

4:02pm

the next day i slept in, and thank goodness 'cause i needed it.
then i got ready for the group interview but it was running behind on schedule, by the time it was done, and more photos were taken, it was 8pm and they said there would be a party at 9pm with snacks, but i needed some REAL food. so steph, sunny, some guy i can't remember his name, and i think kat and imora all went out for sushi, which was also in the hotel. (i never needed to go outside!). i ordered miso soup, salmon (which was only 2 pieces!) and flying fish eggs and some sake called "mu". but they brought me a BOTTLE of sake ( thought it was going to be just those little clay jars they usually serve it to you in), and that bottle of sake must have been ridiculously expensive because just MY dinner was almost 100 bucks! ouch! fuck you vegas and your insanely overpriced shit!
god, i just about had a heart attack when i saw that. and i thought that someone else at the table would like to try some sake, but no one wanted any. they either hated sake or didn't drink.
so ONE thing nice about vegas and their drinks is that you can take your drinks with you.
so i took the sake back to the party up in the real world suite and let whoever else wanted it have some.

when we got back to the suite there was a TON of people there that i did not know at all.
i thought the party was going to be finally a place where all the camgirls could finally get together and a nice laid back discussion because there were still so many i did not ever get to really talk to.
but it was just every person who was putting money into the movie or had anything to do with it. and so i was introduced to many many many people who i couldn't even recall their names or faces if i tried.
lots of guys in suits. i looked around the real world suite because i thought it would look really cool and there would be cool photos to take. but nothing really inspired me and i think i was pretty sick of taking photos by this point.
the real world suite is WAY smaller than it looks in photos. i was expecting this massively cool expansive place, but nope, it's set up pretty small probably so people get on each other nerves and there is drama.
the bedrooms were just ordinary. the bathrooms were smaller than a stall in an airport.
i just sort of aimlessly wandered for awhile looking at the house. made chit chat with, i feel, everyone in the entire world. and then one of the photographers was showing some of the photos he had taken of some of the girls and mine were in there so i got to see about 3 and they were really cool.
but everyone was crowded around that laptop and so i didn't get a really good look.
some of the camgirls and i autographed each other's laminated passes, and i wish i could have gotten everyone's but it was just hard to maneuver around and i started to run out of steam in a big way and by this time i was just beyond overstimulated by it all and i have no idea what time i went to bed. but when i hit the sack i was out like a light.

and then, zippity zap, back up in the morning and didn't give a crap how i packed anything, i just threw it in there and took a bath and tried to make sure i didn't forget anything. and made it to the lobby where they took me to the airport which was exhausting, too, because...well, i am just starting to hate airports more and more.
and the plane seemed especially claustrophobic.
but i made it back home in one piece and I AM SO HAPPY TO BE HOME!!!

so nice to look out my window and see a familiar view and jason is in my bed right now reading a book on CODE (of course :)
and i have all my dogs back and i missed them all so much!
and thank you fuzzy for taking such good care of them!

all in all, vegas was a totally positive experience!
i liked everyone i met except for my one little ego clash with that one photographer. everyone worked SO hard to make my trip comfortable.
i was treated with so much respect and love. everyone was beyond helpful and kind. my room was WONDERFUL. i LOVE my SWAG!
my pink pants are my new favourite thing to wear and they may become the new "stripey" pants for me, since my stripey pants are falling apart. renee and jay rule! everyone that was there to help me was just so helpful!

now i just need to get into contact with all the camgirls so they will
send me any photos they took and i can compile a big webpage with them all! but for now...i need to rest.

i haven't even eaten anything yet today. i have just been working on this all day to get all these stories and pictures up for you!
i hope you will enjoy them :)

sorry for any typos.
i must go eat now.

 

3:35pm

then this is the place called "skin pool party" or something.
but not much was happening there. it made it sound like you could skinny dip, but you couldn't. also no one was even swimming except 2 girls way in a corner of the pool smooching in the water.
the water was cold but i dared to venture in it wearing my black slip.
sunny tooks the blurry photos of me as waded in and laughed and then got out and was so cold! they (the pool staff) brought me warm towels and i dried off pretty quickly. and then just 3 minutes later the place closed and they hustled all of us out of there so fast! it was kind of drag because we just got there, and then nothing was happening, and then we just had to leave! but i do like these dreamy pictures :)

so then because that place closed so fast we went to another club in the place called "ghost club" or something.
why it was called that, i do not know!
it was a $10 cover charge but we got in free.
why there was a cover i don't know why! because nothing was happening there either. it was just people packed in the sardines and they played AWFUL music. the music was one giant MEDLEY of popular songs all remixed together with a really bad drum track behind it. just as you'd be getting into one song they would switch it to another one.
it was music for people with attention deficit disorder or something.
i also think there was some rule that you could NOT dance there!
wtf? but it had a GREAT view!

we didn't stay there very long either. maybe an hour?
and it was SO loud. i mean, loud loud loud!
i am used to loud, but that was loud even for me!
and i have seen/heard The Who and my bloody valentine who seriously wrecked my hearing for life!
so if anyone tried to talk, you'd just have to scream at the top of your lungs. i mostly just stared out at the beautiful view.
then i went back to my room and zonked out. the next day: the big group interview at the place where they shot "the real world: vegas"

 

2:09pm

after i got up (and i literally FLEW through the air to answer that wake up call because i was so startled),
i opened the shades to wake myself up (view below) and then slammed a red bull to wake up even more.
i was very nervous about my shoot and actually had to take antidiarrea medicine because my stomache was flipping out. so i felt pretty damn unsexy with stomache ailments and my period, and being very nervous and exhausted, overstimulated.
i did my hair as much as i could but couldn't get the back right. so i went up to the floor where the hair stylists were. and, of course, it was 2 gay men :) well they fixed it up for me just fine and hair sprayed me up!
i then went up to the floor where the make up artist was, but she seemed to be in bad shape, as she was verrrrrry exhausted, too. i did as much make up as i could and then i would let her perfect it. she did a really wonderful job and i was very glammed up with fake eyelashes and glitter.
sadly, i have NO photos of my own to show for this!
you'll all just have to wait until they release the photos in whatever from that takes.
they also wanted different looks from me. like i should have brought 5 different outfits like everyone else had. but i only had my one outfit. there wouldn't have been TIME to do 5 different looks, tho!
i'm glad i had just one look because that was all *I* could handle in that period of time.
i saw some of the photos in small format on a laptop later (when we had our group interview on the last day) and there were some that are REALLY nice. i can't wait to see them! ahhh! it's so frustrating to not have them to look at NOW!
i did my photos in a club in the hotel called "RAINN"
i tried to go there the night before and check it out so i could see what it was about, but it wasn't open the night before.
my photoshoot was at 11am. i am NOT a morning person. but i managed, with every fiber of my being, to reach down inside of myself and pull out some fire from eyes and soul to bring to the photos.
and i am really out of practice of having other people taking my photo and me not being able to see what i am doing.
it really threw me off at 1st and i felt kind of lost. there were mirrors on the ceiling and i kept looking up and finding great poses if only they could take THOSE photos, ha :)
so in these photos here that is me looking up and taking photos of the mirrored ceiling.
sorry they are blurry. and since i had to spend so much energy getting the photos done i just didn't have a speck of time to take any photos myself of this experience. i was in this little alcove that was kind of like vinyl stairs.
hard to explain. but in thigh high boots with 6 inch heels, maneuvering around in there without tripping or falling was tricky!
after that we went to a place that was like red velvet couches in this other room. not old fashioned kind but big long kind that wrap around the room. and then it had awful bamboo "wallpaper". he told me he was doing his best to not get the bamboo in the photos :)
and then just as i was finally getting into my groove, and i feel i could have taken some of my best photos, it was over with. and i took a photo of the little lit up "dance area" that was down below because i thought it was pretty. there also was a huge wall that "rain" poured down on.
i wanted to stay in there and just continue taking my own photos, but the workers at that club seemed pretty busy getting things clean and ready for the night, and so i just took that one picture and got out of there.
then i went up to my room, and fell asleep for about 3 hours or more.
on my schedule it said "follow up interview at 3pm" and also "dinner at 6pm" and i left messages on the machines of the director and producer telling me to just call when if that was going to happen or what, but that never happened so i don't know what was up with that, but it was just as well because i needed to sleep!

then at 7 or so, i got a call that at 9pm everyone was meeting in such and such a room and then at 10pm we were going to go to this "skin pool party" which i thought was some sort of show for us to watch.
i didn't know what on earth it was. but i leisurely took 2 hours to wake up again and get all the gook off my face from the photoshoot and applied fresh make up.

and then at 9pm we all met in a room and there was more people taking everyone's photos, and then guys videotaping people taking photos, and then me photographing the guys documenting the photo taking :)
and there was a tub of budweiser.
i told all the girls i wanted all their email addesses because i want to make a page of everyone's photos so we can all see how we all chose to document our experiences :) and i HOPE i can get a hold everyone. it will be quite a task to do! it was wonderful to meet "steph the geek" and sunny and kat! there really wasn't anyone i met that i disliked at all. everyone was really sweet and kind although there are some i only got to meet briefly and not really get to talk to.
even tho ones that i have nothing in common with i loved. like the ones i lovingly call "the kittens", which were the really young bouncy ones some might immediately stereotype as "airheads" and were just the sweetest creatures. i wanted to take them all home with me in a basket. some were so insecure and one said she felt all she had to offer the world was her body and that she wasn't very smart, and when she said this she seemed almost to become tearful, and i really wish i could have talked to her further and fill her up with confidence because i could tell inside her was such a beautiful soul and she was so loving and had a LOT to offer the world. but she was only 19 and everyone is really insecure at 19, mostly.
maybe it was finally the mother in me coming out because if i would have had a daughter at the same age my mom had me (21), these girls would be as old as a daughter of mine now.
and one WAS pregnant at 21 and she was just beaming about it.
(she was also a scorpio, i always remember the scorpios!).

and look at the cute girl with the awesome white boots :)
i'm going to try and find the urls to everyone who has one still so you can place who these people are with their sites.
i am so confused as to names. so i don't even want to write any down here for fear i'm going to get it wrong!

then i followed renee (the producer) to her room before we went to this pool party thing ebcause i knew that if i didn't follow her i would become completely lost!
these are the photos i took while i waited for her to get dressed:

 

1:56pm

the view from my room the next morning:

the luxor looks brown there. it changes colours throughout the day, sometimes black, sometimes gold.
it's all mirrored. about the luxor:

"The Luxor recently installed a new system of reflectors in the beam of light at the top of the pyramid. The old reflective system operated at a 77% reflective capacity, which would allow an astronaut to read a newspaper in the Luxor's light ten miles into space. The computer designed, curved mirrors installed last month reflect up to 94% of the light emitted from 39 modified, high-tech Xenon beams, making Luxor's light the most powerful in the world.

The new reflectors allow fewer lamps to produce more candlepower and reduce operation costs from $135.48 and hour to $51.53 per hour. Luxor's light is one of only two things that can be seen from outer space. The other visible landmark is the Great Wall of China. "

 

1:42pm

the silly angsty super duper tired/exhausted/hyper pix i took of myself before i slept for the 1st night.
to get the last of my energy out because i was wired/tired.
getting out, i guess, my feelings about claustrophobic planes, the sadness, desolation, emptiness, over excessive bloatedness and vacant excitement, hollow sexuality and glamour of vegas.
a whirlwind of blurry nothingness wrapped up on a million bows of neon lights. and in the middle of huge gorgeous vast desert that could care less about it's foreign inhabitants.
it will be there long after we have all been blown away into it's dust.

kind of cool how my pajamas matched my bed.

12:19pm

i got to my room,
which was so nice with a massive king sized bed, super soft comforter, 4 big feather pillow!
big bathroom and a very nice view, too.
my view, tho, had a very large mirrored building in the process of being built right outside it, then i could look for miles from the right or left.
i unpacked all my things (which means that i took everything out of my suitcase and threw it all over the floor...which is how i always unpack :) then i can see where everything is and get to it)
and then i went off in search of food.
at first i went to this mexican place in the hotel but it looked closed.

so i decided to try my luck outside.
but out there it looked daunting.
i asked the guy in the lobby if it was at all safe to walk anywhere being a woman who is alone.
he said, in his english accent, that don't walk this way but go that way but said don't cross the bridge.
i walked about 3 blocks and then just knew that it was too daunting of a task, so i took some photos from it all far away. took a picture of "hugh hefner road" (i was on flamingo road) then turned around and came back and went back into the hotel.


then i saw something that said 24/7 buffet in the hotel. i walked trying to find it, finally asked someone where it was and they said "turn this way then that way", that didn't work so i again, i asked and they said "no, go that way and then this way"
which then just brought me back to the mexican place.
i stood in front of it totally confused as to what to do and was going to give up and go get room service in my room when one of the people from the film came down these stairs (and we all have laminates on that say "camgirls", so i at least can spot "my people" that way if we happen to run into each other) said that they were all having drinks up those stairs.
the jay the director, the make up artist (who i think was also named renee? all i know she is also a scorpio!), renee the producer, the photographer who did not say "and YOU are?". eduardo (one of the camera men?) were up there.
and some other people i can't remember now.

but i couldn't order food up there. and the woman i talked to who i could order food from barely spoke english.
and she said i could order it down there and then go eat it up there. so after much trying to get through the language barrier to where she could understand i wanted a cheeseburger, i sat down in the empty restaurant waiting for it and ordered a beer. when i said i wanted a beer her accent was so thick the only thing i could make out that she said was "corona". so, even tho i hate corona, i went with that one.

then i went up the stairs to a nice open place and the wind started to pick up and it seemed like it was going to storm and there was evening lightning. the wind was warm and we were sheltered and so it was all very pleasant and magical.

and i can't remember what we talked about. i think just where we all were from and i don't even know. it was just all happy and floaty and i was looking at the sky and lightning and taking it all in.
i sort of picked at my cheeseburger and i threw 1/4 of a french fry at the make up artist, who had until that very second, been pretty calm and mild, but as soon as i threw that she took my lettuce and onion and threw that back at me :) it was all in good fun. i could have turned it into a full blown food fight but i was wearing an expensive silk velvet top from the 40's :) we had been playing mental "fisty cuffs" when we met each other back at renee's when she said that you could bleach your hair with no bleach and then i said there is no way you can bleach your hair without bleach. and she said , "no, it's not bleach it comes in these little packets" and i said "oh, you mean BLEACH? :)"
and then i said "google it!" and i told her how my boyfriend and i are always having our debates about things and then we have to go settle it by googling it :) i liked her a lot. she was calm and feisty both at the same time :)
then the restaurant kicked us out because they were closing. you'd think las vegas would keep things open 24/7. but they do not! just the slot machines were open.
so i went back to my room where i tried to get my computer plugged into their broadband but could not and must have said "fuck!" a trillion times.
and then tried to figure out the phone but couldn't.
finally figured it sort of out and left jason a super long message about how i cannot get connected to the internet.
he told me the next day i had been trying to stick the cord into the wrong place :)
my ethernet slot of really hidden in my old laptop. i won't try to explain it to you.
i looked through their "room service" book which was about as thick as "war and peace" full of every service imaginable but couldn't find ONE single speck of info on how to get a wake up call.
finally i just looked at my phone and low and behind there was a button that said "wake up call:"
and pressed it and bingo. i had it set to wake me up at 9am.
i also called housekeeping to tell thme i do not want any housekeeping the entire time i am there.
i just hate people i do not know rummaging through my stuff and i like things how i like them.
and i had a million towels in there as it was and lots of of those cute mini toiletries.
i was set.

but i was still REALLY hyper. that just exhausted kind of hyper.
so i had to put on my silk pajamas and jump up and down on the bed while i watched crap tv on VH1 and take really bad photos of myself because i just had to get the last of my energy out before i collapsed into bed.

and then i had kind of a crap sleep because there was something weird going on in the hallway that involved a lot of very loud walkie talkies.

11:48am

after hanging out in renee's room for a long time, there was a photoshoot to be done with "the kittens"
at the spa in the hotel. they already had been doing many photosessions that day. i guess lots of them arrived much ealier than i. just as a lot of peole arrived a lot later than i.
i asked if i could go with because i am either in the photo or taking the photo and to not do either of these and just watch would be interesting to me.
i was going to take SOME photos of the photosession but i only ended up taking some after it was over because the vibe in that room was all off.
i am SO glad i went there because of that i got to see the 2 photographers and how they each worked.
and the one that was supposed to be taking my photos the next day i did not like his working style.
1st off, there was not a good vibe in the room, and the water in the HOTtub was COLD!
i mean, duh, the 1st thing to do when taking photos of someone is to make sure they feel comfortable, because if they are not, then the photos are not going to turn out well.
so if you were going to take pix of women in a hottub is to make sure the water is HOT. hello?
i said this outloud (not to anyone in particular) and the photographer turned to me and viciously said "and YOU are?"
and i snapped back (in my mind) "i'm the woman you will NOT be taking photos of tommorrow!"
but i did say "well, i'm a WOMAN who knows about womenly things like if you want to take photos of women in a hottub you should know to make the water at least WARM". i mean, fuck, if you don't want INPUT from the subject your are photographing then you are just missing out some pretty huge details!
the other photographer was way more detail oriented and just went about doing his job and and i got a better vibe from him. so i turned to jay (the director) and told him i wanted the other photgrapher, not the guy who just said to me "and YOU are?" i wish i could remember either one of the photographer's names, but i can't. i wish i was not so bad at remembering names!
i said i didn't mean to be a diva, but i just cannot work with a snotty photographer who is not detail oriented and doesn't care to make a good vibe for the subject being photographed. and jay was totally happy to switch photographers for me, to my great relief. i'm sure he is a good photographer, but just not for me.
so it was such a good thing i went to see that, because it saved my photosession i had the next day.

i went up to the kittens in the spa who were looking rather lost and stiff and reminded them that we had just been rolling around on renee's bed laughing and they had all been hugging and to try to remember that feeling for their photos. also, one of them had just found out she was a few weeks pregnant (and she is a scorpio, i remember) and she was so happy about it. and so i told her to try to remember how happy this makes her. i hope my advice helped as i didn't watch anything from then on.

i took a photo the the forlorn security guard at the spa.
he seemed completely confused as to why i would want to take his photo.
i always manage to take photo of everything after everyone has left and things are over and so my photos have a sad or empty ethereal feel.
i told the security guard that his job must be pretty fun (being able people watch, i was thinking) and he looked at me like i must be crazy. i think he was a pretty depressed man, for some reason.

i then went back up to renee's room to get my suitcase and finally get into my room.

10:48am

when we got to the palms hotel and were checked in we wsent up to Renée Intlekofer's room, who is the producer.
she is also a wrestler! i love her to pieces, she is so smart and funny and she can multitask and organize more than anyone i have ever seen. to watch her in action is a sight to behold. how she keeps it all together, i don't even know!
she is tiny and muscular and as smart as whip!
they had lots of SWAG for us. swag is (Stuff We All Get) and it's the term all the enertainment industry uses for...well..stuff we all get for free! and we got a lot! a really nice pink pair of sweatpants (and everything i am going to name here has "camgirls" monogrammed on it) , a pink shirt, a white tank top, a pair of sunglasses, a white terry cloth robe, a pair of jeans (mine has a pink pinkrhinestoe butterfly on it, ha!so britney!) , and then we got lots of pop and snacks and water to take back to our rooms. i hung out there for hours because i wanted to see who was all arriving from the airport. and it ended up being the little party place to be. the view was amazing on the 18th floor!
the photos i took really don't do it justice at all.. it was a huge window and you could see for miles and miles and it was truly spendid and the clouds were doing all sort of great things.
the funny thing about hanging out in this place was watching all the camgirls taking photos of each other.
it was bordering on ridiculous in a good way because it was just so over the top and so i was taking pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures all the while the guys with the videocameras were videotaping everyone taking pictures and then i would take pictures of them videotaping everyone taking pictures of people taking pictures :)
this went on for hours.
and what we all talked about i don't even know it was just all happening so fast.
i do know i asked everyone what sign they were and so i actually remember what sign everyone is more than i remember their names.
i was basically old enough to be everyone's mom. and then they woudl all go "no way!" and the girls were as cute as kittens so i kept calling them kittens.
this one here is one of the kittens. i can't remember her name! but i think she is a gemini.
everything about them was so cute. they were all perfectly tan with perfectly flat bellies. the were around 19 to 21 years old. everyone had tiny cameras and tiny cell phones.
i called jason to let him know i had arrived safely on one of their cell phones, and since i don't own a cell phone , i didn't even know how to use it, and they all found this to be funny :) i guess it is. EVERYONE has a cellphone.
every single person on this earth, i swear to god, except me, has a cellphone.
the 1st thing EVERYONE does when the plane lands is get on the cellphone.
all everyone does while they are waiting to board the plane is talk on a cellphone.
i couldn't even figure out how to use my phone card.
the phone in my room even confused me...dial this number then this number then then this number and THEN the actual number to make a call.

oh, another funny thing that would happen (whenever you get a group of women together) is we will start talking about our periods and other womenly things. and so that was cracking me up, too :)
i'm sure the cameramen were hoping we would talk about things other than periods, children, giving birth and tampons vs. pads. ha :)

 

10:05am

me on the plane being very very tired.
i crocheted on the plane and doodled on my napkin and listened to morrissey.
i sat next to 2 17 year old boys who slept the entire time and listened to eminem on their walkmans.
i had an aisle seat and was pissed i didn't have the window seat because the boy who had it didn't even look out the window the entire time! it was a 3 hour and 22 minute flight. the airline was weird. america west.
they "sneak" advertising onto EVERYTHING these days. little video monitors would pop up from the ceiling and show us advertisments before they showed a will farrel movie that you had to pay to listen to. i didn't watch it.
then on the tables that fold down (so you can eat, etc) all have advertisments on them, too.
mine was to buy a Saab as if i am going to go now buy their car because it was on my folding table.
even the napkins had advertisements on them.
and no food was free. you did get free peanuts, but i don't like peanuts.
all the food was $5. i was glad i packed some crackers in my purse.
the flight seemed to take 500 years.
and i had to pay an extra $50 because my weight of my luggage was 8 pounds over their free limit.
i had never even heard of such a thing that you have to now have your luggage at a certain weight or they will charge you! ridiculous! i could have taken my laptop out and saved the $50, and in retrospect i wish i had but i was just too damn tired to deal with it. so i paid the $50.
going through the whole screening process at airports now is also such a drag. the whole taking off the shoes thing and everything. when i finally got to my hotel, i did see they searched my bag, but they didn't take the knitting needles or anything else, so that was good.

when i arrived there were 3 people to greet me. 2 girls (Shaina and Kamala)who heped coordinate things and 1 guy with a videocamera and a guy with a boom mic. but i don't know if he videotaped me or not. i didn't see him doing much videotaping.
which was nice because i was awfulyl tired.
then we waited around for , i think another hour and 1/2 for some other camgirls to arrive.
everyone's plane was arriving late because of thunderstorms.
it's weird how my memory was jarred by being in that airport again.
all the huge flashing advertisements for the blue man group and lounge singers and all that stuff. plus, of course, many slot machines.
so finally we left with me, the 2 girls, the cam guy, the guy carrying the boom microphone, and a really nice girl named amora and a guy who was somebody's boyfriend (i think kat's?)
i am the WORST with names and still cannot remember 1/2 of anyone's names.

9:44am

it's so wonderful to wake up in my bed! when i was in vegas every time i woke up , i would be confused as to where i was for a few seconds. and this morning for the 1st few seconds i was surprised and so happy to find myself back here :) i feel like dorothy from wizard of oz and i have finally clicked my heels 3 times and i'm home :)
everything was really fun there but way overstimulating, as i knew it would be.
i stayed at the palms hotel and didn't venture outside except for about 3 blocks on the 1st night because i wanted to take photos. but i didn't feel very safe doing it alone as a woman and it was just so overwhelming out there i just decided to snap a few pictures and come back in.
it would take my years to take all the photos i wanted to actually take.
lots of scouting around and patience. it was depressing really to know of all the photos outside of my hotel that i would not be taking. but i had to just let go of that idea and concentrate on why i was there and make sure i did a good job at everything, which i think i did.
i'll tell you more stories as i get the photos up.
here is just one little photo for now:

of the rhinestones i tried to all wash but they got all destroyed and lost their shininess.
ah, how many shows and places those rhinestones have been in their day.
r.i.p. to my rhinestones who lived an long and glamourous life.

many of these were on my body, i think, when i was in vegas last when i headlined at the luxor.
at the same time frank sinatra died and for a 1 minute or more there shut off all the lights in vegas in tribute to him, which was pretty trippy.

i was on the 21st floor of the palms hotel this time and i could see the luxor from my window in the distance.
it would change from gold to black depending on the time of day.

it was very very frustrating not being able to get my cam to work there. i heard some of the other girls were having troubles with that, too. it kept giving me an error mesage. like their internet access would let you browse the internet but it would not let my cam ftp a picture like somehow it was blocking me from being able to do that.

9:33am

slept for 12 hours! wow, i needed that!
gonna work on gettng the pictures up for you now.
but 1st here are 2 posts i made under the bed while i was there, just to stick them in an anagram to have them archived here:

Posted by ANA on August 09, 2005 at 11:42:34:

ok, finally i can connect to the net but i cannot get my cam to work. in 10 minutes i have to go have my photosession and then i will be back in a few hours, so i will try again and give you more updates right here! gotta get going now tho. this is all i have time to say right now! xox!

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Posted by ANA on August 10, 2005 at 00:04:43:

i still cannot get my cam to work. i don't know what is the deal.
i have been SO busy i haven't even been able to write in here.
i think the photosession went well. i did it in a night club here called RAIN which was futuristic.
i can't wait to see the actual photos. after that i fell asleep for 3 hours because i was so exhausted.
then i got up, took a bath and now am getting ready to go have a casual get together with all the camgirls and meet them all! i have met about 6 so far and we are all very different people, but i really like everyone a lot!
then tonight we are going to some place called skin party which i guess is a place by a pool and people put on a little show for you? i'm not sure. then i hope to get to bed at a reasonable time because i am getting a bit burnt out. tomorrow we have the interview with all the camgirls together and we are going to be doing it where they fimed The Real World Vegas :) that will be fun!
my big nervewracking thing for me was the photoshoot and now that is over i feel a lot more relaxed.
ok...i have to go now! i'm taking pix with my digital cam for you.
so sorry my cam on this laptop is not working.
i miss home and you all
and i miss jason and the pupsters like crazy!
i'll write more later
ciao