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Mar. 14th, 2011
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Mar. 14th, 2011 06:41 pmI've been at FogCon for the last few days, and am just now emerging in an exhausted haze; I adore staying up all night talking about books with smart people, but it does take a toll. Home sick today and hoping that I'm just over-tired, not stricken with yet another flu...
I was on three panels, Friday night's was about Monsters in spec lit and what happens when the heroine/ hero is a monster. I got a bit excited and carried about 40 pounds of books around with me all day, got to the panel at 9pm and spread them out on the podium in front of us to the suprise of my fellow panelists. It was a good and lively conversation; it felt like that lovely intellectual play of writing with a smart person, or daydreaming together, bouncing delightful ridiculousnesses back and forth.
The other two panels I was on had less content, but were still fun-- one where the four panelists and the room created a city in an hour-- more of a city state actually-- and one on the punk, or lack therof, in steampunk spatterpunk witpunk and so on and so on... The punk panel was the most content-free and shallow, but really quite delightful-- much empty posturing, table-pounding, swearing and shouting "No!" at each other and the audience. A good time was had by me, and seemingly by a fair number of other folks...
Other then that, it was a good con-- staying up all night talking about books, meeting new folks & hanging out with people i don't see enough of. (yay frankie! jm! yay jessie the k! yay bill! cynthia! debbie notkin! laurie! w00h00!) But good lord, I don't have the stamina of my youth... I came home very early Sunday morning, slept the whole day away, still felt wretched today (Back out again last night, yargh chronic pain...) Called in for my 10am meeting and my boss pretty much told me I sounded awful and stay home...
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be (at least a bit) sparkly again. But it was a truly excellent con. And well needed-- between Cicely's illness & my work difficulties & the general February pit of despair it's been a bit of a time.
xoxo
N
oh ps-- I want to read everyone's fogcon reports-- link me pls?
I was on three panels, Friday night's was about Monsters in spec lit and what happens when the heroine/ hero is a monster. I got a bit excited and carried about 40 pounds of books around with me all day, got to the panel at 9pm and spread them out on the podium in front of us to the suprise of my fellow panelists. It was a good and lively conversation; it felt like that lovely intellectual play of writing with a smart person, or daydreaming together, bouncing delightful ridiculousnesses back and forth.
The other two panels I was on had less content, but were still fun-- one where the four panelists and the room created a city in an hour-- more of a city state actually-- and one on the punk, or lack therof, in steampunk spatterpunk witpunk and so on and so on... The punk panel was the most content-free and shallow, but really quite delightful-- much empty posturing, table-pounding, swearing and shouting "No!" at each other and the audience. A good time was had by me, and seemingly by a fair number of other folks...
Other then that, it was a good con-- staying up all night talking about books, meeting new folks & hanging out with people i don't see enough of. (yay frankie! jm! yay jessie the k! yay bill! cynthia! debbie notkin! laurie! w00h00!) But good lord, I don't have the stamina of my youth... I came home very early Sunday morning, slept the whole day away, still felt wretched today (Back out again last night, yargh chronic pain...) Called in for my 10am meeting and my boss pretty much told me I sounded awful and stay home...
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be (at least a bit) sparkly again. But it was a truly excellent con. And well needed-- between Cicely's illness & my work difficulties & the general February pit of despair it's been a bit of a time.
xoxo
N
oh ps-- I want to read everyone's fogcon reports-- link me pls?