these streets so fixed and solid

I am so behind on posting.

So, Wiscon! Got in Friday afternoon, me and Paidhi Girl, dead tired. Almost immediately went out to dinner with velourmane and glvalentine and catrambo and a few other people who either I'm not remembering clearly (dinner on Friday is kind of blending into dinner on Saturday, or lunch, or...) or whose lj names I don't know. It was Mexican, and Paidhi Girl had fish tacos. Mmmm. Lovely conversation, very nice.

Still, I was very tired. In fact, I have no clear memory of what happened after that. I do know that I went to the Cherryh Panel that warriorofworry was on, but could not make it all the way through because I was So. Tired. I nearly fell asleep sitting there, not because the panel was uninteresting--it was great--but because I'd been up since three that morning.

And I had an 8:30 am panel the next morning. Ancient Mythology. Got up, went down to the green room for coffee, and found some of my fellow panelists. We chatted. Went down to the panel, expecting lots of empty chairs, but when we opened the door--woah! It was full of people! "What are you all doing here?" the moderator asked, and someone said, "We went to the farmer's market!"

So there were lots of lovely people in the audience. Gregory Frost was moderator, and I thought he did a great job, he was very organized, had actual questions for discussion, all very cool. There were also very good questions from the audience. I managed to speak coherent English. It was fun.

I'm not entirely certain just what came next--lots of chatting with people, lots of buying books, a couple of panels. Paidhi Girl did the kids programming, which she enjoys enough that she complains if I don't take her with me. In the evening, a bunch of Escape Artists folks went out to dinner, and there was some hanging out in the bar talking. Haiku earring party, I know I did that. Got the earrings to prove it!

Sunday, a few more panels, a bit more chatting. I never came down with the Wischolera, and niether did Paidhi Girl. During the "Take Things Apart" segment of kids' programming she took apart a CD drive and found some gears, which she saved as a present for Paidhi Boy. (Explaining that would take too long.) We both had dessert tickets, and we chatted with the folks who ended up at our table. We made it through Timmi's speech before it became clear Paidhi Girl was going to tip over from exhaustion, and so we went upstairs. Then early next morning, it was off to the bus stop for the long ride home.

It all sounds kind of vague, but really I had a blast.

***
School's out! The weather is a bit weird, bouncing from cool to hot and back, but what the heck. We've got pool passes, we've got sunscreen. I've got my novel to work on. Which is going slowly. But don't they always anyway?

Or at least I keep telling myself that.

these streets so fixed and solid

I am so behind on posting.

So, Wiscon! Got in Friday afternoon, me and Paidhi Girl, dead tired. Almost immediately went out to dinner with velourmane and glvalentine and catrambo and a few other people who either I'm not remembering clearly (dinner on Friday is kind of blending into dinner on Saturday, or lunch, or...) or whose lj names I don't know. It was Mexican, and Paidhi Girl had fish tacos. Mmmm. Lovely conversation, very nice.

Still, I was very tired. In fact, I have no clear memory of what happened after that. I do know that I went to the Cherryh Panel that warriorofworry was on, but could not make it all the way through because I was So. Tired. I nearly fell asleep sitting there, not because the panel was uninteresting--it was great--but because I'd been up since three that morning.

And I had an 8:30 am panel the next morning. Ancient Mythology. Got up, went down to the green room for coffee, and found some of my fellow panelists. We chatted. Went down to the panel, expecting lots of empty chairs, but when we opened the door--woah! It was full of people! "What are you all doing here?" the moderator asked, and someone said, "We went to the farmer's market!"

So there were lots of lovely people in the audience. Gregory Frost was moderator, and I thought he did a great job, he was very organized, had actual questions for discussion, all very cool. There were also very good questions from the audience. I managed to speak coherent English. It was fun.

I'm not entirely certain just what came next--lots of chatting with people, lots of buying books, a couple of panels. Paidhi Girl did the kids programming, which she enjoys enough that she complains if I don't take her with me. In the evening, a bunch of Escape Artists folks went out to dinner, and there was some hanging out in the bar talking. Haiku earring party, I know I did that. Got the earrings to prove it!

Sunday, a few more panels, a bit more chatting. I never came down with the Wischolera, and niether did Paidhi Girl. During the "Take Things Apart" segment of kids' programming she took apart a CD drive and found some gears, which she saved as a present for Paidhi Boy. (Explaining that would take too long.) We both had dessert tickets, and we chatted with the folks who ended up at our table. We made it through Timmi's speech before it became clear Paidhi Girl was going to tip over from exhaustion, and so we went upstairs. Then early next morning, it was off to the bus stop for the long ride home.

It all sounds kind of vague, but really I had a blast.

***
School's out! The weather is a bit weird, bouncing from cool to hot and back, but what the heck. We've got pool passes, we've got sunscreen. I've got my novel to work on. Which is going slowly. But don't they always anyway?

Or at least I keep telling myself that.