1. Eating chocolate sundaes with Raph Koster and Jesse Schell at Denny’s
2. Seeing inside the secret room at Three Rings Design
3. Presenting trophies on-stage at the Choice Awards
4. Congratulating Hideo Kojima for his Lifetime Achievement Award
5. Putting on the Emotiv headset and using my master Jedi mind powers
6. Getting into the Valve, Blizzard and Microsoft parties with Ryan
7. Hearing Clint Hocking drop an f-bomb for the first (and probably not last) time
8. Being interviewed by Morgan Romine, AKA Rhoulette –the Team Captain of the Frag Dolls
9. Talking about MUDs with my mentor, Erin Hoffman (you are awesome!)
10. Eating lunch in Berkeley with people from HumaNature Studios and then souvenir shopping
11. Hanging out with my fellow scholars (these people are the greatest you will ever meet)
12. Participating in random clapping with Tyler and Brenda at the IGDA party
13. Seeing lots of other ladies at the conference – hooray for women in gaming!
14. “If you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
15. “Step 1: Collect underwear. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.”
16. Experiencing the West Coast for the first time ever
17. Giving away every single business card I brought and having a solid brick of other people’s cards by the end of the week
18. Creating the cliffhanger fist pound with Ryan and Jeff
19. Seeing my friends have a blast being CAs
20. Adding many new interesting books to my bookshelf
Jelly Fish at the Monterey Aquarium