Last month Robert, Rebecca, Midnight Fiddler, and Red-tailed HAWK kokonvened in Washington, D.C. in order to look at art and eat lunch. At least that was the cover story. Our true purpose was to act foolish in public and pose for silly pictures.
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Looks like a lot of fun!
I wish I had a gigantic shiny blue triangle I could pretend to be…
In the first picture, Robert, you look so… I don’t know. You look like you’re an airplane, and you’re happy about it. No. I don’t know.
But I love the pictures.
And Rebecca’s shoes.
*BUrsts into fit of laughter* “Don’t ask. We don’t know what we were doing, either.” That is so funny!!!!
It’s my fault for starting the airplane pose, though, for in the begining I was pretending to be a flying HAWK. But there was no stopping a kokonspiracy group from being strange in front of the public once the pose was seen. 
I think we did a pretty good job, too!
And the Koko signs are fun, once I caught on to how to make them again
I hadn’t made them in so long! Hey, we are all aiming our koko signs towards the middle! That was good planning…
Red-tailed HAWK
(2) I’m always happy when I’m an airplane. Aren’t you?
Is the Koko sign three fingers on each hand? I must learn this.
When I was raking leaves yesterday for community service, a girl was talking about how the upperclassmen in her dorm have invented all these high-fives that have math connections. The “cosine graph” and the “tangent line”, for example. Amusing.
I might move to DC. No, seriously. A member of my family has a job interview there in January. If I do, can we have another KoKonvention that I can come to?
(And Alice, if I don’t move to DC next summer, I’m almost definatly moving to Washington state, so we can have a ko-kon there. And even if I do move to DC, then I will certainly be visitng Washington state a lot. Everyone’s a winner! Except for me, because I’ve got to leave all my friends. Fun Fun)
4-Oh, yes, I have to say I’m usually very happy as an airplane. It’s pretty preferable to being, say, a helicopter, or a school bus or a tugboat. You just look like an especially blissful airplane. XD
Rebecca, your shoes amaze me.
(7) Being a tugboat is fun, too. But HAWK is right that there’s nothing quite like soaring.
9-True, true. But HAWK is right.
That is quite awesome. And Robert’s comment about being an airplane just made me pee myself in laughter. Well, not quite. But it still made me burst into hysterics.
Someday I’ll have to bother to upload my pictures from the D.C. Kokonvention and send them to you guys. Someday.
I want to go to a kokonvention but I can never seem to find time or tell my parents who would insist on coming and ruining all the fun.
WHEN was this planned? Durn, I wished I lived on the east coast. MIDWEST KOKON, PPLS!
You guys are so mean. I didn’t get notified! *grumbles about miss-information*
But the pictures are da pwn, so I won’t
set my rabit army of marionettes playing guitar on youget mad.(12) Parents do come to Kokonventions, at least when the Administrators organize them. We insist on it.
(13) I’ll be in Chicago at the end of January. It’s not the most pleasant time to Kokonvene, but it’s possible.
(14) Well, I’ve told you all about “Spamalot,” the Revels, and “The Golden Compass,” but I haven’t heard from any parents.
Boston Kokonvention NOW. In boston (or like rhode island or manchester or just somewhere near MA) NOW. kome on. please?
oh man robert’s coment about airplanes made me laugh out loud. ooooh boy i am quite jealouse of all those able to kokonvene. anyways it looked like fun. the GAPAs’ seem like awesome people.
*gasp!* Must say, I’m quite jealous…
Hey, Roberto and Lady Bunniful! I might be coming to D.C. within the next couple months, so we’ll have to Kokonvene if I do…just thought I’d let you know!
robert and Rt-H both look really nerdy! and museish.
4- you are so weird!
Flamablamablous! That must have been really fun!
(2, 8 ) Thanks, those are purple sandals with hot pink socks.
It’s an unusual experience for me to have footwear worth commenting upon. I gave up on shoe stores completely a couple of years ago and turned to mail order. Even then, the pickings are slim for feet as long and narrow as mine. I was so excited to discover these, I wrote this bit of doggerel about the find:
O for the golden days of bare feet tempered by poolside and hot sand,
crumbles of glass, rubble of asphalt; to set aside once more
the petty indignities imposed upon the size 11 Narrow foot
cramped into a size 8 Wide world.
O prithee for a hint of flair! a wisp of grace and elegance to hap bedight
the extremities too often by the merchants slighted!
Begone dull styles befit a clodhopping granny, available in one’s choice
of black; or if the stars align, the entire enticing spectrum of brown.
A thousand windows of the internet launch and close.
A thousand pair of shoes scroll by, indistinguishable;
another season for the same scuffed and tattered sandals looms
when lo these wavering eyes light upon the unthinkable:
in size 11 AAAA, PURPLE shoes.
O bold lavender, thou amethyst divine!
Can I resist thy wanton charms,
settle for the suitable,
the selection that portends no war
with wardrobe or professional mien?
But yet can I with good conscience dis
the miracle before me?
What, choice have I?
Lady b. was actually wearing sandals with pink socks, not shoes, but it had the same effect…
Soaring pwns,
I must say,
I love to catch thermals,
Almost any day!
[/bad poetry making craw jealous]
I’m sure there will be a larger kokonvention eventually, guys, and we will notify you!
9/10-I love being right
No, that’s just a fun thing to be blamed for. 
*Starts school for soaring lessons*
Red-tailed HAWK
Oops, lady b just posted a rather long comment about her sandals just before I sent mine in, sorry!
Red-tailed HAWK
(22, 23) That’s okay, RtH. Hmm. Crraw seems to be haunting this thread. But you’re right, soaring pwns.
(13, 14, and anyone else) We weren’t even sure this would happen. But I was determined not to miss the J.M.W. Turner exhibit at the National Gallery of Art and enlisted the company of a couple of MBer families who were willing to work with the possibility I might have to cancel at the last minute.
15-Mom says that maybe in January we might be able to make the Spamalot performence.
It was fun. *remembers* I look like a midget.
It was great, and I feel so lucky to be able to have been able to get to know some of the GAPAs more. It’s funny, you’re talking to them and then you just think, “Oh my gosh, I’m talking to a GAPA! This is every muser’s dream, how can I be so incredibly privileged?!” Truly, it’s just like that. For me, anyway.
Then I think of all the stupid things I’ve probably said on here and I wonder what the y really think…..kidding.
Oh, and the soaring pose? R-tH started it and then it took off. (Pun intended, even though it was a bad one.)
I’d say you’re just the right size for a midnight fiddler.
WHY ARE THERE LEAVES ON THOSE TREES
IT IS NOVEMBER
DO YOU PEOPLE NOT HAVE A SENSE OF WEATHER
GAWD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM
26 (MF)- Pff. Don’t feel bad just because Hawk happens to be ridiculously tall.
Kidding. I think.
15 (Robert)- YESPRZ. Will you be here on a weekend or possibly a Wednesday?
Who else is up for it?
(26) Meanwhile, GAPAs are thinking, “omigosh, I’m talking to a MuseBlogger.”
Several of the trees were still blossoming…
29-Hahahahahhah!!! *feels important* I guess it’s good we cleared this up so everyone feels good!
But GAPAs know more than bloggers, so they have more to say…
27-Is there a right size for a HAWK?
28-“Ridiculously tal”!!
Am I that tall? I don’t know about that, or if MF is especially short. At least I don’t feel like I have to strain to see people below me, as people might imagine 
Red-tailed HAWK
I wish I had been there. I’m so ALONE!
6-YAY WASHINGTON KOKONVENTION! ^_^
27~ Capitals?
29~ I’m honored.
30~ Being ridiculously tall (or short) depends on who on e is with. For example, I am taller than my Mom’s choir director, but two pf my best friends (who are younger than me and girls) are both taller. R-tH is way taller than me, but he’s a boy. But he’s also 2 or 3 years younger.
In the second picture especially, I look very short.
Chicago in January. Brrr. *shivers* I’ve done that before, walking several blocks in the snow and wind. COLDCOLDCOLDCOLDCOLDCOLDCOLD. *turns blue*
I’ll be passing through Chicago this month on the way to Wisconsin to spend Christmas with my grandparents. Wish I could meet a few musers, but I’m afraid there won’t be time. Besides, sometimes all we really see is the train station. Except for this summer when the clutch on the car broke and we were stuck in traffic for several hours.
Hmm….any musers in Wisconsin?
It was so darn windy today.
Plus the cold.
So we got wholloped with freeze.
*is not moving to the Windy City no matter how much it pwns*
‘Tis cold here too. I got to hang up laundry in below freezing temperatures. Without gloves.
Oh my gosh!!!! *laughs* It looks like so much fun! I wish I could have been there!!!
I know what you’re doing:
You’re flying away from Pwt.
Looks like a ton of fun!
Awesome!
13- I’m coming to Chicago! I just don’t know when . . .
6,32- *plots* *plans*
So, anyone in Wisconsin?
Since a whole bunch of us are coming to DC, why don’t we snip down to the DC theatre events thread and plotte? And bug our parents into insanity?
21- i am a narrow foot sympathizer!
now if the GAPAs’ ever visit Canada (in my are of it ofcourse)… *gets lost in wistful fantasy of meeting the GAPAs’*…. though i doubt that will happen.
*excuse the random post but* w00t I got post 42!!!!!!!
I just helped the Kokonspiracy!!!!
I handed out a Kokopelli for president button that Robert gave us at the kokon. Thanks Robert!
40 – Rather close. I come there often to see relatives.
43 – I will NOT! (xD)
I’m not going to any more kokonventions. Especially in D.C.
But I am very grateful I got to attend the August one. That pwned very hard.
44-Great! Oops, I haven’t had a chance to give them away yet. I think they are in my fuzzy jacket pocket, ready, but now I’m wearing my winter coat!
*Ahem* I am sorry, I really have been misinforming everyone, I must admit
Technically, Midnight Fiddler, Rebecca, and Robert are soaring as if they were Turkey Vultures (Cathartes aura) and I am soaring (actually more gliding, but I won’t bore you with all of the details of that, I feel this is getting boring already 
) like a Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis).
Red-tailed HAWK
That first photo is a truly excellent photo.
Wahhh!! I’m missing so much, being in the place which I doubt I’m allowed to tell you. If I was home, I could have gone too!
But those photos pwn!!
2- those shoes are pretty cool
27- is there some designated midnight fiddler size i should know about? oops
does anyone kno where i can get one of those triangles for my room?
49~ Apparently I’m the right size. Hmm, that’s a nice thought.
The triangles are part of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Unfortunately they probably wouldn’t fit into your room, unless you have a huge one. Besides, I don’t think the mantenance people would appreciate you taking them very much.
50- how about the gift shop? small ones? non-midnight fiddler size? more mouse?
Huh?? More mouse? What’s a more mouse?
Midnight Fiddler (50): Yay for right-sized-ness! I used to be very very very short for a really long time. But now, apparently I’m in the 50th percentile for height! ::dhd:: However, I’m only in the 20th percentile for weight. Can I never get things right? ::sigh::
Eh, I don’t even know what percentile I would be in.
51~ Ah, but midnight fiddler size would be small!
How do you know what the percentiles are?
I’m apperently 30 pounds less than I should be. And aproximately four inches lower than my average height.
*scoff* Who wants to be average anyway?
According to this one website I found, I’m in the 6th percentile for height and 21st percentile for weight. Which, unusually enough, is a healthy range.
According to another website I’m somewhere between the 10th and 25th percentile for height and the 25th to 50th for weight.
So basically, I’m well below the 50th percentile in everything, especially height. xD
Cat’s Meow (55): I went to the doctor last week and they told me.
Hahah, I remember having that picture taken
Thanks for sending me to this thread, Rebecca! It seems to need an awakening…
Red-tailed HAWK
(59) Yes. I enjoyed being reminded of it, too. Good times.
Dang you. Now I’m even more excited for March 22nd.
54 MORE DAYS TO GO!
Aaaah! Why have I never noticed this thread?
Red-tailed Hawk! Is that you?
Did you guys see the JMW Turner exhibit? It’s worth it.
What happens on March 22?
63~ Yes, we looked at that, then met up with Robert and took these pictures, went to eat and then looked at the Hopper exhibit.
In the Turner exhibet there as a painting that had a white rabbit right in the middle of it. I looked at it and just started laughing.
62~ Yes, that’s Red-tailed HAWK. I’m the midget in the pictures. My shortness is accentuated by the tallness of the people around me.
IBCF-Yup, that’s me
Do I look how you pictured?
And see, here, I’m not making a stupid face. I think they come with larger kokonventions, at least that’s what I am guessing considering the evidence at
handwing64-Hey, you’re not that short! You really mustn’t pick on yourself so, there’s nothing wrong with you!
Red-tailed HAWK
