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Mar. 30th, 2005 11:50 amHave a little more sleep credited to my account this morning (although my dreams were bad), so I may actually be able to make a reasonable facsimile of sense.
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I had a very lovely time. I was on three panels ("Turtles All the Way Down: Creation Myths in Fantasy and SF," "Did Tolkien Harm Fantasy?", "Revenge: Why it's a Motivation and Why it's Cool") all of which were interesting and fun; panelists and audiences were both excellent. Otherwise, I did not make it to a single lick of programming--which I'm finding these days is more and more the reason to volunteer to be on panels, because otherwise I'd probably go the whole con without ever getting out of the dealers' room. Ergo, I spent most of the con with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem and dragonsden, and a splendid thing it was, too. Met many LJ people. Had meals with 1crowdedhour, ckd, mrissa. Was happy to get a chance to talk to lydy, pegkerr, pameladean, jenett, sstaten (not all at once, and some not for nearly long enough). Gorgeous prints from dd_b to whom mille remerciements.
I returned home with two books (When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai and Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox), one CD (Play Each Morning, Wild Queen by the Flash Girls), a set of hairsticks, a pair of cool earrings, presents for various people, and a Folkmanis mole puppet which fills me with delight. (matociquala, the ad copy includes a spy joke! "Here's one mole you won't mind infiltrating your covert operation.")
And when I got home, my new Kinesis keyboard awaited me. Which is a great and glorious thing, since my beloved Kyboar has ceased to be workable. (There are many quirks I can put up with, but nonfunctional "c," "d," and "e" keys are simply not among them.) It goes back to Kinesis to see if they can repair it; if they can't Mirrorthaw says we'll get me a refurbished one, so that I'll have a spare. And since the road-test last week proved that it takes about two hours on a standard keyboard before things start to go seriously haywire in my wrists and forearms, a spare Kinesis is actually a lot closer to a necessity than a luxury.
Managed to finish novella revisions whilst I was gone (trains are really handy that way), so now I need to do the revisions on the article for Reflection's Edge, do the revisions on A Companion to Wolves so thatmatociquala doesn't have to chew her own leg off in order to escape, and (::deep breath::) start the revisions on Kekropia, since my lovely and talented first-readers have given me their feedback.
And probably 5,006 other things, but those are the big ones.
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I had a very lovely time. I was on three panels ("Turtles All the Way Down: Creation Myths in Fantasy and SF," "Did Tolkien Harm Fantasy?", "Revenge: Why it's a Motivation and Why it's Cool") all of which were interesting and fun; panelists and audiences were both excellent. Otherwise, I did not make it to a single lick of programming--which I'm finding these days is more and more the reason to volunteer to be on panels, because otherwise I'd probably go the whole con without ever getting out of the dealers' room. Ergo, I spent most of the con with
elisem and dragonsden, and a splendid thing it was, too. Met many LJ people. Had meals with 1crowdedhour, ckd, mrissa. Was happy to get a chance to talk to lydy, pegkerr, pameladean, jenett, sstaten (not all at once, and some not for nearly long enough). Gorgeous prints from dd_b to whom mille remerciements.I returned home with two books (When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai and Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox), one CD (Play Each Morning, Wild Queen by the Flash Girls), a set of hairsticks, a pair of cool earrings, presents for various people, and a Folkmanis mole puppet which fills me with delight. (
matociquala, the ad copy includes a spy joke! "Here's one mole you won't mind infiltrating your covert operation.")And when I got home, my new Kinesis keyboard awaited me. Which is a great and glorious thing, since my beloved Kyboar has ceased to be workable. (There are many quirks I can put up with, but nonfunctional "c," "d," and "e" keys are simply not among them.) It goes back to Kinesis to see if they can repair it; if they can't Mirrorthaw says we'll get me a refurbished one, so that I'll have a spare. And since the road-test last week proved that it takes about two hours on a standard keyboard before things start to go seriously haywire in my wrists and forearms, a spare Kinesis is actually a lot closer to a necessity than a luxury.
Managed to finish novella revisions whilst I was gone (trains are really handy that way), so now I need to do the revisions on the article for Reflection's Edge, do the revisions on A Companion to Wolves so that
matociquala doesn't have to chew her own leg off in order to escape, and (::deep breath::) start the revisions on Kekropia, since my lovely and talented first-readers have given me their feedback.And probably 5,006 other things, but those are the big ones.
