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?