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I remember everything now and I feel great!!!!!!!!!!! Because of the hypnotist I feel energized and don't need to recover. Bring on the next nationals. Thanks to all for taking care of me at the social. :)

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I met Woodie. It was the most amazing experience of my life. I saw him in the airport Sunday morning and I told my friend to watch my stuff because we were in the security line. Now, we must remember that I only had about four and a half hours of sleep and I was in bright pink pajama pants that said Hello, My Name Is High Maintenance PLUS a Moe shirt that was given to me and my black sweater that had cat ears on the hood. I was only wearing it with the hood, letting the rest flap behind me. I ran over to Woodie in my large platform shoes and stopped dead in front of him and his wife. He looked at me and said hello and I said, hi. Can I give you a hug? So he let me give him a hug and he hugged me back and I said thank you while I was hugging him and he said you're welcome. We broke off and I ran back to my team and started to cry. I was so happy to have met him. The man has changed my life... all of our lives. I still cry when I go into detail every time I tell the story. :( :D

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I don't wanna list the people i met because i know i'll forget a bunch of you, but i did want to say thanks to the few of you that seeked me out. it was strange to have people know my name without ever knowing theirs. Also wanted to say how surprised i was that i impacted people with the whole FIRST Fraternity thing. Short apology to those of you that I didn't get around to shaking hands with, that'll just have to wait for off-season or next year. And everything starts with...PARC.

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I was completely busy running the scoring table on the Curie Division, so I didn't have much time to and talk to people. When I went to the webhug I got lost for the longest time, and made it there the last minute when Mike Martus started announcing the stats and people who won shirts. I had to run out of there as soon as my lunch break was over, so I couldn't talk to anyone at the webhug.

I remembered Gary Dillard and John Boucher came up to me and said hi, and I felt bad I didn't have time to have a good chat with them. Then I remember at the Wrap party I walked by the Cheesy poofs, one of their team member wanted to talk to me, but I had to run to meet some friends. Little things like that just make me feel terrible.

And for those of you who were at Atlanta, please forgive me for not being as friendly as I should've been. I was nice seeing everyone there. Lots of real faces behind the computer screen name.

Worst thing was, when I left the webhug I saw Libby Ritchie, the 1 person I want to meet the most at Championship event, coming up the elevator and I didn't even have time to chat. Bah! I will just have to go to IRI now.

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I met Ryan from 234. Actually I saw him walking around like 6 times before I had the chance to talk to him on Saturday.
Other than that I really didn't meet anybody from CD... I literally forgot about JVN, which makes me kind of upset...
And I saw a lot of team 45 but I don't know what Andy Baker looks like, so meh...
Oh, and I saw Dave again and talked to him for a minute. Which is always good. Because it's Dave Lavery.

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OH NO! I forgot to meet all the people I had on my list! I was so busy in the pits and scouting that I lost all track of time! I do know that DJ came looking for me. My teammates described him as the "Dude from the TechnoKats that had the fro in Chicago and had his face painted". From there I just knew it was him. Maybe I will go to IRI and meet him personally.

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Jeez... I was privileged to meet so many of you! I had the pleasure of meeting:

Matt Leese
Steve Shade
Al Skierkiewicz
Gary Dillard
John Boucher
Kenny Ardizzone
Paul Copioli
Ryan Albright
Nelson Green
Mike Walker
Rick Blight (Ricksta)
Karthik Kanagasabapathy (Kindergarten was hard ;) )
Kyle Fenton
Tom Dolan
Joel Johnson
Brian Lucas
Kyle Hughes
Raul Olivera
Andy Grady
Anne Bergeron
Jeremy Roberts
Elgin Clock
Jeff Wetzel
mechman108
DCA Fan

I met so many more of you than this lets on. Thank you to everyone who introduced themselves or took time when they were busy to just say hi (especially Kyle Hughes - she was so busy that I was afraid to talk to her!) Thanks to everyone who made Atlanta really special for me.

AM

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People I met:

DJ
Big Mike (ok, not meet, but more like attacked by)
Dave (read big mike's notation)
The Lucas
Erin Rapacki (remember that guy talking to you while you were locking up your Segway? :D )
Brandon Martus

Not many people, but I was very busy, hopefully next year will be the year. muahahahahahah

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I met....

Amanda Morrison
David Kelly
Dj Fluck
Ken Leung
Brandon Martus
JVN
Dave from 121
Andrew Roberts (native)(it's an inside joke)
Woody Flowers
and others

I don't know if they all remember me, I was kinda a tag along with the first 3 people on my list.

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I met dave lavery too. i had sprained my thumb that day :ahh: and i got him so sign my bandage :p

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We met Steve Wozniak! When they announched him as a judge, I ran down to the pits to find him and get a picture. While I was rooting around for the camera, he walked up to our pits. He insplctied our robot and was interested in our use of fiberglass. He asked about our school ans such. We asked if we could get a group picture and he was real accomodating. He had to move on -- man teams to judge.

I printed a couple of digital pictures at the cop center, ran back and we got a couple of autographs -- the Woz!

We were ver impressed!

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That's awesome!

I remember meeting J.T. Battenberg, Dave Kelso, Karthik, JVN, and Andy Brockway in particular.

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I met quite a few people there. In fact I can't remember all of them. So if I introduced myself but forgot to write you down don't be offended. These three really stuck out as fun people though that I remember very very well.

Tytus Gerrish
Andy Baker (Sorta...I was a bit of a tagalong)
Blue Orion (Jess from Miss Daisy)

Next year sign my sign so I remember you! :). - Genia (Free Hugs girl)

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A lot of people came by our pit to ask about our steering system (4 whl ackerman) that had seen posts about it on CD... I forgot every single time to introduce myself as RoteAugen instead of Chris...

also, those reps/mentors from MOE were pretty cool. It's always a good feeling to talk to someone with a genuine interest in what you are talking about