Up all night!

Not really! But WisCon started in the Denver airport as I ran into whump and cynthia1960, raanve and boxofdelights and many other obvious WisCon-goers! Then I finished reading Code Name Verity on the plane (crying at many points) and very happy because it was a FABULOUS book. I kept thinking it was about to end and then the story kept going & kept deepening. I also wrote a giant essay on the plane about SF-ish things which I want to add to and then post on my other blog ... I felt very excited and inspired to be coming to WisCon suddenly and felt THE MAGIC.

My ankles swelled up a lot on the plane. I took some painkiller, put on the cream stuff and put my feet up and had a drink with my roommates and other people wandering in and out of our room. Fun conversations with charlie, coniraya, nojojojo, tempest, alberto.... hederahelix relentlessly graded papers all the way through this and I think she was up almost all night! gossiped a bunch about our actual rl neighborhood with pat murphy. and about her book projects and maker faire. I fell asleep around 1am. I already have a giant list of books and movies people have recommended or talked about and here it is so far:


G. Willow Wilson Air, Cairo
The Butterfly Alif spec fic novel
Starter
Good Christian Bitches (tv show? not for me ...)
Last Resort
Duet (worst movie ever? or strangely enjoyable ? OR BOTH)
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (YES)
How to train your dragon Xmas special (with caveats)
some classic sf...
an old anthology: Adventures in Time and Space
Enemy Mine (a trilogy)
The Roads Must Roll
The Weapon Shop
Who Goes (another classic short story)
Princeless (new comic, sold out of print but being reprinted)
Shadow & Act (something something... I missed this)
Castledown (Joyce Ballou Gregorian - a trilogy - must read)


Tonight I will be on the Karen Axness memorial panel and I have a giant, fun list scribbled down in my notebook which I will try to type up and print for handouts!

I plan on getting my summer side-of-the-head shaving somewhere around here this morning. It is like 85 degrees and muggy. sweat is trickling through my over-mullety ex-mohawk. Time for someone else to tackle this as I have been utterly crap about cutting my own hair for the last 6 months since I don't want to stand up long enough in front of a mirror to do it.

Had breakfast with tempest, terry g, then a giant conglomeration of more people then Timmi and tom showed up and then I met andrea c. and s.e. smith but was in mid-allergy attack so have retreated to mouth breathe and honk in my room while wating for a giant horse pill of a claritin D to take good effect.

Scootering around Madison

I had a really relaxed morning, dozed a little after breakfast, then said hello to a zillion people, ran into my friend from techie conferences D. who it turns out has taken down her thinky sort of blog and who is the mastermind behind Feminist Ryan Gosling. ahahahah. I imagine it is bittersweet to be famous for that but on the other hand everyone ADORES it. As do I! I went and got some shampoo (and some tiny 50 cent disco balls...) at the drugstore, ran into tons more people, got my head shaved nicely on the sides (for incredibly cheap) and then crashed debbie and laurel's lunch. (Laurel who wrote Growing Wings.) We talked about kids and personalities and mothers and so on. and science fiction and the singularity and my new Fabulous Theory of Everything about which I will say more later! They had good ideas! I found myself saying much more intelligent things than I expected or than I had written yet (as sometimes happens). I hope I can remember whatever it was or recreate it. Right now am too tired.

Zoomed into the art show (too early... mistakenly) Greeting behaviors with another 100 people. I am now holed up in bed again with a cookie and some tea and will play Glitch for at least an hour before venturing forth. Two hours would be better... maybe a nap.

I am on a panel tonight which will be recs of books by women writers -- 9pm.