Decompression

[truepenny]

Note to self
The combination of Diet Pepsi and Pepto-Bismol tastes the way gas-station-bathroom disinfectant smells. Do not repeat.

Great conversations with
papersky, rysmiel, redbird, 1crowdedhour, pegkerr, pameladean, lydy, elisem, plus other people who so far as I know aren't on LJ and may not want to be identified here, but You Know Who You Are. Also anyone I've forgotten due to invisible brain weasels.

People not hung out with enough
The Lady Poetesses from Hell (must rectify at WisCon). Also: see previous list.

Moment of purest delight
Papersky finding her dragon.

Moment of epiphany
Elise pointing out to me that what I thought was a failed short story was in fact a successful prose poem. Does anyone know good markets for 200-word, weird, fantasy prose poems?

Goals achieved
The Wild Swans and A College of Magics signed.

Most bizarre food experience
Curry chocolate and cayenne chocolate. Dude, if I could get these on a regular basis ... well, it would be very bad for me. Very very bad. The sage, rosemary, and tarragon chocolates were also quite nice. But the green anise chocolate was just nasty.

Brought back from Minneapolis

• One CD: Folk Underground's "Advance Demo Of Their Demo". (Dreamhaven)


• Seventeen books
  
  • Anouilh, Jean (transl. Christopher Fry). Ring Round the Moon (Magers and Quinn).
  
  
  • Biss, Gerald. The Door of the Unreal (Dreamhaven).
  
  
  • Carpenter, William, and Robert Shetterly. Speaking Fire at Stones (M&Q).
  
  
  • Dobyns, Stephen. Pallbearers Envying the One who Rides (M&Q)
  
  
  • Ford, John M. Casting Fortune, From the End of the Twentieth Century, How Much for Just the Planet? (Dreamhaven).
  
  
  • Jette, Christine. Tarot Shadow Work (M&Q).
  
  
  • Langford, David. The Leaky Establishment (Dreamhaven).
  
  
  • Queen, Ellery. The Finishing Stroke, Halfway House, The Spanish Cape Mystery (M&Q).
  
  
  • Rezmerski, John Calvin. What Do I Know?: New and Selected Poems (Dreamhaven).
  
  
  • Smith, Clark Ashton. The Emperor of Dreams (Dreamhaven).
  
  
  • Smith, Sarah. A Citizen of the Country, The Knowledge of Water (M&Q).
  
  
  • Trewin, J. C. Five & Eighty Hamlets (M&Q).
  
  


• One pair white kid gloves.


• One cheap rosary (research, not sudden conversion experience, in case you were worried).


• One pair tap shoes. (What was I thinking?)


• One Minicon 38 badge with Frutarian Heretic ribbon. V. good.


• One Chartres-style labyrinth on paper (also research).


• Buttons
  
  • CRUEL BUT FAIR
  
  
  • Regime change begins at home
  
  
  • ego ipse custodes custudio
  
  
  • radiation symbol (for Mirrorthaw)
  
  
• One compact OED. The OED Oracle is now open for business. Send your words to truepenny@livejournal.com, and I'll post the entries. Note to self: get magnifying glass.

Best feature of hotel
Geodesic dome. *heart*dome*heart*

Favorite quote (that I can remember accurately)
Elise, on her beautiful food spread Sunday morning in the Green Room: "It's an art thing. They're like edible necklaces."

Most coveted clothing item
Rysmiel's dragon-and-phoenix garments.

Mysteriously lost
Fingernail clippers.

Annoyingly broken
Purse strap. Buckle-tongue sheared off in the middle of the consuite Sunday night. I think I carry too much junk in my purse.

Work completed
A lot. Will post word count later when have typed it all in. Also a good deal of productive thinking.

Question to ponder
Can I make Minicon 39?

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Five and Eighty Hamlets is an intriguing title; let me know more, when time and energy permit ?

Glad you liked the dragons and phoenixes and cherubs, oh my. I am, in case it was not sufficiently obvious, really pleased with that outfit. And do not get to wear it all that often.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Five and Eighty Hamlets is an intriguing title; let me know more, when time and energy permit ?

I shall. I can tell you right now that it's a book by a British theater critic who saw "every Hamlet of note" between 1916 and 1987, it has pictures, and Mike says it's fabulous. (Actually, I don't think that was the adjective he chose, but the sense is right.) Dissertation reading I'm actually looking forward to. Stop and marvel at the concept.

[pameladean]

Want, want want want! Eeeep.

And yes, Mike is more likely to have said, "Really pretty interesting."

It was very fine to see you.

Pamela

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Actually, he was more emphatic than that--which is why it stuck in my mind. So somewhere between "really pretty interesting" and "fabulous." "Excellent," perhaps.

It was good to see you, too. Would have been nice to talk more, but in-depth conversations with all the people I wanted to have in-depth conversations would have required the con to be twice as long. But perhaps you'll come to WisCon and we can talk again there.

Or, you know, we can just post on LJ. *g*

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Smith, Sarah. A Citizen of the Country, The Knowledge of Water (M&Q).

Sarah Smith. Yummy books.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? Do you want me to see if they have any more of those dragon-and-phoenices? I got them in a Chinese shop that sells imported Chinese things to Chinese people who know what they're worth, and they were consequently not very expensive. They'd look great on you, and most of the time there wouldn't be any chance of you wearing them simultaneously, and on the times when you did, it would be a nice change for people to ask if you were Rysmiel's sister rather than Elise's...

When I showed you my dragon, people heard you laugh right across the room.

And that was a big room.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Do you want me to see if they have any more of those dragon-and-phoenices?

Oh wow, could you? Because that would be BEYOND fabulous.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

(OK, so why will it let me post a new comment but not follow up to your previous comment?)

I'll have a look. They also had bodices in that material, and they had those suit things in blue and silver as opposed to black and red, which would suit your necklaces better. I'll go in there the next time I am passing and see what they have and let you know.

It's a cool shop. It sells tea and soap and clothes and tea-pots and cups and lampshades and little plastic statues of the Buddha dancing.

(Zorinth is lying on the spare bed reading Heinlein and giggling. This is most disconcerting. I like Heinlein's juveniles well enough myself, but I don't recall them making me giggle every few paragraphs.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Blue and silver would perhaps suit two of the five better, but one of the other three wouldn't care, and the remaining two would actually look much better against red and black. (I don't think you've seen me wearing "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veteran's Day," which is dumb of me because I love it.) But, yes, please, see what they have and let me know.

[marith.livejournal.com]

I have to ask: Where'd the weird chocolate come from?

It sounds like Donnelly chocolate from Santa Cruz, as they're the only ones I know of who make such peculiar flavors. A friend of mine brought them some mint from her garden, and they actually used it for truffles and bars. Highly recommended. (Though the five-spice chocolate is so intense I can only eat it in small doses, ditto the ginger.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Um, Pittsburgh? I don't really know, as I never encountered the person who had brought it. Anybody else know/remember?

[rliz.livejournal.com]

> Does anyone know good markets for 200-word, weird, fantasy prose poems?

<perks up> I don't know of any market, but I definitely want to read this.

[carbonel]

About the mysteriously missing nail clippers: Could you have lost them in the huckster room in front of the DreamHaven table? And are they the very standard sort of nail clippers with just clippers and fold-out nail file? If so, I found them. They were just lying there on the floor, and I asked everyone around if they had lost a set of nail clippers, but no one had. If those are the ones you lost, I can certainly send them back (though it might not be worth the cost), but if you just wanted the mystery solved, perhaps I have contributed a clue.

And about the cayenne, curry, rosemary, sage, and whatever the missing chocolate was, I believe Andrew Plotkin brought them to Minicon. (I'm not sure the etiquette of mentioning real names on LJ, but if he has a LJ handle, I don't know it.)

And I hope you do make it to Minicon 39.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well, those sure could be mine. No distinguishing features to prove they aren't. And, I think, really not worth the bother of sending them, as it would probably cost less for me just to buy a new pair. (And it's not like we don't have three other pairs of nail clippers lying around the house; it was just that there I was in Minneapolis with breaking nails and NO DAMN CLIPPERS.)

But thank you. Very much.

And I hope I can make it to Minicon 39, too. I enjoyed 38 tremendously!