Writercon: Friday. It's all a blur

[pepperlandgirl]

Neither of us were particularly hungry on Friday morning, but we dragged ourselves to the Tea Room for breakfast. We had about 90 minutes before the opening ceremony for the con started, and we needed every spare second. I won't go into all the boring details of the endless wait, the over-priced food, and the small portions, but at least it cost a lot of money and took up our entire morning.

We ran into sadbhyl, xionin, mydeira, and wisteria_ just as we were leaving the Tea Room and warned them that they wouldn't have time to eat breakfast there. Instead, they went to the "coffee shop", got some breakfast, and we all herded upstairs to the Royal Room A.

Honestly, I don't remember much of the ceremonies, and I don't remember what panels I attended at all. I'd have to pull my program out of the luggage, and I have no idea where it is. That's not to say the panels weren't interesting. I'm sure they were fascinating...they just got lost in the alcohol, I guess. Was the "Shades of Gray" panel on Friday...? LOL, wow, my memory sucks.

Oddly enough, my memory does include something I wasn't even there for. Kalima announced in a panel that all Fantasy/AU fic is pointless and people shouldn't read it or write it. Properly chastised, we all solemnly agreed to never do it again and furthermore, to have her sign-off on all future projects. Incidently, when I met her, she was perfectly polite and nice to me, though to be fair, she probably didn't know what I was.

At one of the panels, I ended up sitting at the table with Mary (you know, Journeys!) and allyv. It was the last panel of the day, and again, I'm sure it was fascinating...Anyway, afterwards Mary was all like "Do you want to go get some dinner?" and I was all like "SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I was supposed to lead the poetry slam at the Con Suite (Incidently, at this point, I still had not met nautibitz or even caught sight of her, though apparently everybody else had.)

So I blew off the poetry slam to have dinner with Mary and then later that night xionin said "Nauti was at the poetry slam and asking about you."

Well I would have felt bad about missing her, but I was eating dinner with Mary and Caro! "SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" We went to the Pizza Palace, and what a surprise! It mostly sucked! But the company most definitely did not suck. It was very, very awesome and we had a great conversation.

So I went up to my room to change for the cocktail party and realized I looked like a cross between a widow in heavy mourning and a bag lady. Something Had To Be Done. So we ran downstairs to one of the stores and bought a purple necklace and a purple silk scarf to complete the outfit, and I looked much better.

At the cocktail party, I met up with nautibitz finally! And lovebytez and mrmonkeybottoms. I really wish I could have spent more time with Love, actually. I don't know her from LJ at all, but I want to know her. It only took over 24 hours to meet them! We only chatted for a little bit because there were lots of people to chat with! I then spent some talking to pukajen and ascian3. They're both totally fucking awesome. I seriously could have talked to them all night, but my attention was diverted a few times.

Oh! Before I forget! I had the chance to talk to Jane Espenson a bit at the cocktail party before she went up to her room. She's the most amazing person. Really. If I were going to stalk somebody (and I'm not! I'm just saying if...) it would be her. I really wish I could have spent mroe time talking with her, but I think we all say that.

Oh, and I got a chance to meet redrover1980 who is both sweet as candy and fucking hot as sin. Seriously, she's gorgeous.

So at some point in the night, I fell into a rather serious conversation with rabid1st and allyv about Spike on S5 of Angel. Hopefully i convinced them to give S5 another chance...Apparently it looked so SERIOUS that nobody dared interupt us to even say goodbye before they went to the strip club! I wont' name names here, because I don't know if they want the world to know what animals they are, but man, I wish I had gone with them!

I think I turned in pretty early. Around midnight or so. Because, after all, I did need to spend some time with my husband. Oh, but before we turned in, I planned to meet up with allyv, rabid1st and Mary for breakfast at the ungodly hour of 8! (Can I say Squeee again?)

Comments

[babs6219.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you kinda had fun..sorry about the sucky stuff, yay on the good stuff! And hey...booze usually makes it better...
Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that...Glad you're back!
Good luck!

Bobbie

[spikewriter]

Dinner was great Friday night, probably one of the most enjoyable meals of the weekend for me. Loved the conversation and spending time with you and Jaime. The company was very, very good.

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

I ended up sitting at the table with Mary (you know, Journeys!)

Did Mary say if she's going to continue Journeys? Not that I'm impatient or anything. ::taps foot::

;)

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Yes, but she never indicated when she'd post an update.