Okay, this is where you will ABSOLUTELY FOR SURE find me over the weekend, because these are the things I am definitely scheduled for: Beyond that: I get in mid-afternoon on Thursday and have no sense of when I might actually get to the con. Hopefully by half five or so, but who knows. I believe I have dinner plans of one kind of another sorted out for Thursday already, so I’m gonna assume this will not be a super great day for just hanging out. FRIDAY: 9am: minor ambitions…
Tag: conventions
A-conventioning I go
This weekend I went to the National Irish SF Convention, Octocon, for the first time in *years*. Since 2017, I’m pretty sure. It was lovely to see everyone. I wasn’t sure until Friday that I was going at all, so I didn’t mention it to anybody except one friend, so people were Very Surprised Indeed to see me, and almost immediately upon arrival I was invited to do a panel, which was both flattering and funny. Furthermore, to my delight, the panel was with my friend, the magnificently talented Sarah…
Worldcon 77: The Monday
Clearly by the Monday of Worldcon I was too tired to even be writing about it a week later. :) I’d actually been doing very well up until the Monday morning, really. I hadn’t been getting enough sleep, but apparently going home to sleep in my own bed made a real difference, because I didn’t get properly incoherent until Monday, and usually Saturday afternoon is when that sets in with these long cons. I forgot that on Sunday (I think) I was sitting around chatting and our illustrious guest of…
Worldcon 77: The Sunday
I actually still have the event app on my phone so I can even REMEMBER what I was doing on these days. Sunday I had an interesting panel, “Fantasies of Irish emigration,” about why so much fantasy–especially urban fantasy–seems to get written ABOUT Ireland without much of it being set IN Ireland. I called out RF Long as somebody who’s written UF both in and about Ireland, and I think there were a couple others I could think of, but it was a really fun panel (and my friend Deirdre…
Worldcon 77: The Saturday
I am forgetting SO MUCH STUFF it isn’t even funny. Like moments where I saw a friend Thursday evening, gave her, in fact, a Word Warriors ribbon, and then saw her again at the Friday morning Word Warriors meetup, then saw her AGAIN on Saturday and was like “OMG I haven’t even seen you AT ALL this weekend! …oh, except the meetup…” and she was like “…and Thursday night…when you gave me THIS…?” It reminds me of when Dublin actually got the Worldcon bid, and I saw Ian McDonald (whom…