Kitanzi's Colloquium

Gafilk 10 ended yesterday afternoon, and by now everyone but a few stragglers (including much of the con com) has gone home to shoehorn themselves back into their daily lives with a few wistful looks back at the con. That's how it always seems to go, and the wistful looks at least mean that people had fun here. I'm waiting for my roommates to wake up so I can get started in packing, but I'm not really going to do a con report. I am just going to say that it's a rare and wonderful con where the concom has as much fun as the attendees, and thank you to SO MANY PEOPLE for coming here and having fun with us and making that true. This was our first year in the new hotel, and as far as I know the complaints were very few and mostly very minor, the biggest being that they don't seem to have quite enough hot water for everyone at the peak demand. (They are still finishing renovations, so it may be that simple but we will mention it at checkout.) The hotel beds and I didn't quite agree with eachother but that's normal for me - I sometimes think that it's just as well, since it gives me at least one thing to be glad for in going home!

It was a whole lot of fun, folks, from the concerts to the auction (complete with hot and cold running Bards) to the puns to the strangely mobile dance floor at the banquet. Let's do it again next year, shall we?

While ACat is out in California for the weekend, I'm going to Dragoncon tomorrow.I know at least a few people who will be there, and will probably meet up with me at some point (and would be glad to hear from anyone else who'd like to!), but I'm not particularly looking to anyone to entertain me - the people watching alone is good for hours, as I recall. What I *am* looking for is any idea of what time registration opens? The website doesn't say, far as I can see...

I'm taking MARTA to avoid parking logistics and expenses, and only having to coordinate myself so I expect to be there pretty early. I sometimes feel like the only morning person in all of fandom - anyone out there who might prove me wrong?

autographedcat is headed out to the UK this afternoon while I stay home and hold the fort. He has promised faithfully to distribute many hugs for me, and collect them in return from anyone who wants to pass one along. Take good care of him for me, folks, and I'm sorry I'm going to miss you all!

We are back from OVFF and dead tired. Dunno about ACat, but I'm triaging email and skimming a bunch of LJ and calling it good enough. Please, if there's something you want me to see let me know. For now, sleep, and then tomorrow I find out the non-financial cost of taking three days off of work....
Con report eventually, maybe. (There's honesty in advertising.) For now, let me just say I had an incredibly good weekend it was very hard to let it go this morning, even as long as we stretched it out.

Not link sausage so much as Kitanzi gumbo, but ( but if you really want to know... )

As I expect to be making my best imitation of a night owl tonight (which is probably to say MAYBE still concious at midnight, or at least expecting people to wake me up for it) I'll just say it now.

May your new year be better than your old one in every way possible, may you learn from your mistakes, cherish your blessings, and hold tight to those you love. May we all have what we wish most for, and none of us settle for what we deserve.

(And I may I see as many of you as possible NEXT weekend at Gafilk!)

We're back from OVFF,and clearly need a vacation from our vacation. I'll try to get around to a proper con report sometime, but looking back at past sucesses on such things, don't hold your breath. I'll be pretty sketchy on catching up with LJ (No, I didn't use the business center for the purpose, though many others did) so if there's anything I should know, please sing out! (Keeping in mind that, yes, I do know about the brand new Glasser! Wheee!)

Right, it's been months since I posted anything with actual content that wasn't about work. Time to make at least a token effort to catch up, because otherwise it gets harder and harder. At this point, all I can reasonably try for is a thumbnail of the summary of the outline of the highlights of the last couple months, but it's still gonna be long.

( Year end and England )

( Training and NJ! )

( And now... )

48 hours! FOURTY EIGHT HOURS!

I'm going to England, nyah nyah na nyah nyah! Just about 48 hours from now, maybe 49 or so, I should be getting on the plane! (Have I got that right, ACat?)

Thanks yet again to all you amazing people who made sure this happened! *BEARHUGS!*

(Yep, I'm probably being insufferable today. I keep "happening" to mention this at work - but I'm too excited!)

We just got back from Worldcon, had a GREAT time, thoroughly exhausted. I'll try to do a con report in the next week or so, but I just tried to see how much was waiting for me on LJ and it's over 600 posts if I want to catch up. Um, probably not. Anything I should particularly know about?