Dirac Angestun Gesept

I got there early enough to get into the kaffeeklatsches I wanted this time (learned that one quickly enough), realized I’d left the camera at home next to the computer after copying the photos off (oops), had a nice conversation in the hallway with Lis Riba, then headed down to the Baen presentation.

As was noted at the gripe session, the room was too small for the publishers’ presentations. I wound up sitting on the floor at the back of the room, but it was still an enjoyable presentation, aided by the free books they were giving out to people who asked interesting questions.

Afterwards, I wandered around some more, and was reminded that the art show was going to close relatively soon. I ran up there to do a quick skim through, then had another quick lunch in the ConCourse and hung around until the “Creating Gods” panel. Again, Lois and Jo anchored a great panel, and it went fairly quickly, even though the lights were flashing on and off as people leaned on the switches.

From there, down to the Tor presentation, also overly-full. Many upcoming books of interest, damn them! How dare they publish so much stuff I want to read!!

I then tried to make some dinner plans, but the people I asked already had them. (As it eventually turned out, most of them were at the same gathering.) I need to remember to make meal plans farther in advance at Worldcon…I’ll have to keep that in mind for Noreascon 5. (More to the point, I’m already bought in for Boskone, so I should try to make appropriate plans for that.)

I did get together with some of the LMB list folks who I hadn’t managed to do dinner with previously, so it worked out well anyway; I then wandered through the CascadiaCon party, then another small quiet gathering with chocolate and tea and interesting company, and from there party-hopping. The Readercon party was fun; I caught up with someone from USENET I’d wanted to meet and pointed him at the Peabody Essex Museum.

I then went down the hall to the “Weird Al” Sing-along party, which was loud and raucous and loads of fun. I stayed for a while, but a combination of increasing deafness, increasing tiredness, and the chance to catch a bus instead of walking across the bridge again got me moving. Home and thud.

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