on my way home

[rm]

I'm currently at the Sweet Water Brewing Company in the airport waiting for my flight. I have treats for Patty, and am glad I am wearing a dress for this part of the trip -- I only hate being called ma'am when wearing male attire, and everyone calls women ma'am in this airport. One last travel note: I avoided the evil full-body scanner.

Meanwhile, what a great Dragon*Con! I gave good panel; I got good panel; I saw old and new friends; and I feel really re-energized about some stuff. (ConSweet is good; really, really good). And I didn't have the huge wave of melancholy I usually do at this con, although I attribute that to a few things, including not having room for it; the lack of panel content about the media I'm super emotional about; and really having a place to channel it into with ConSweet.

Since I have offered to both on Twitter and on panels, I will be putting up recap posts for each of the panels (outside of the readings) I did over the weekend (thank you YA-Lit track, Brittrack, SF Lit Track, Alt History track, the Dragon*con Comics & Popular Arts Conference and the Anime/Manga track that provided space for the panel I was on) followed by a directory post that will point you to each of them (this will possibly while I'm on the airplane (it's dependent on Gogo availability and if there's turbulence which I don't enjoy)). The YA-Lit LGBT panel discussion I already posted a couple of days ago, so the directory post should make that more findable.

If you're new to this journal thanks to the con, please say hi and feel free to friend me. I also leave anonymous posting on (although with IP-logging), so if you do not have an LJ account or feel the need to be anonymous in the discussions (as opposed to pseudonymous), that's superfine too.

I will post a more personal recap tonight or tomorrow about things like cool Torchwood peeps I hung out with, awesome roommates, how fucking crowded Dragon*con is, and the way the con's relationship with alcohol seemed more toxic to me this year than in the past later/soon.

Sundries posts will resume tomorrow.

Comments

Home already

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Hey, sorry I never got to say hi to you during the con. I spent most of the weekend tagging along with my brother (who went to school at GA Tech and thus knew the area) and his girlfriend. Still had fun though, and learned some important lessons fort next time, whenever that may be.

Have a good flight!

Re: Home already

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I even realized you were there (my Dragon*Con flakiness can start about the week before the con).

This was a hard year if this was your first time at the con. I though there were a lot of crowding issues that had reached a new scale of challenging.

You wouldn't believe how many people I know who were there that I was supposed to see by I never really got to.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

safe travels.
glad you had a good time
waiting to hear about the alcohol issues

did you at least see Emerald Rose? they used to perform there....

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

COMING HERE GAVE ME MEANING AGAIN. SWATCHING.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I like being referred to as an "awesome roommate" and not "Ms Snoreypants". :D

Safe travels!

Re: Home already

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I was impressed by how well the logistics were handled. Yes, massive crowds with occasional bottlenecks, but I always got where I was going in time to see what I wanted; I even managed to get a seat at every event but one. In particular, I was astounded by how clean the hotels managed to keep their bathrooms all weekend.

Granted, I was staying at the Georgia Tech hotel several blocks away from Geek Central, so I don't know how things went after hours.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say I enjoyed hanging out the little bit that we got to!

I've got some thinky thoughts about the YA lit panel that I'll post there.

Re: Home already

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind the crowdedness so much and this was our first DC. I guess being a DC commuter has some benefits! ;-p

I do know about missing people, though. There were quite a few I didn't bump into that I knew were there. Some of that was me being exhausted and dealing with migraines and others was just not crossing paths.

[such_heights]

I have that stupid Bulletproof song stuck in my head and now I am cracking up in an empty airport about dead Ianto and this is ALL YOUR FAULT.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha. I'd forgotten about that, but I am filled with warm, STUPID sadness all over again.

[delle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I missed you! Due to my evil, evil work, I got in early on Saturday and left early on Monday, missing the one panel of yours I was really interested in (it was in the Alt Hist track, about historical realism I think? I don't have my pocket program with me).

I looked for you at the Marriott bar, but you know how packed it is. And I wasn't sure if you were in the atrium level bar or the Pulse, the one that juts out over the atrium. Perhaps you saw me? I was a Femme!Steampunk!IronMan, complete with *very* bright LED light on my chest (I know a lot of people - mostly somewhat drunk guys, come to think of it - felt it necessary to inform me the LED was bright. Gee, ya think?)

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for being on the Alt Hist Track panels! (I especially appreciated your Regency costuming expertise, because that era represents a significant gap in my knowledge and I just could *not* remember the name of that lovely short green jacket...)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The Regency panel was one of the highlights. For us panelists having no real plan, we clearly could have gone for hours. I hope that we'll be able to take a look at the era again next year.

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

Absolutely--we're going to have an Age of Sail panel for certain (I'm halfway through the Aubrey/Maturin series, by way of preparation.)