I am heading home from Boston, where I just spent a wonderful, terrible, magical, mundane, perfect, flawed, absolutely incredible weekend as a Special Guest of Arisia 2010. The convention was warm and welcoming and filled with people who hugged me and were happy I was there. I had a terrible allergic reaction Sunday morning and spent most of the day sick even unto death. I sat on a stage with Cat and talked about gulper eels and Lord Byron's penis. I tried to make the hotel internet work, to mixed results. I curled up in a warm bed with two of my favorite people sitting nearby, and watched great television. I wandered around unfed and confused.
I had a fantastic convention. I am glad to know that someday, I will go back there. I am so very glad to be going home. And that, really, is the convention experience. You go to a strange place, you enter the airport departure lounge of your soul, and you do your best to fall in love with the people you meet there. And then you all get on planes and go home to your separate places, and you wonder whether you'll ever fly that route again.
My bags are packed. I'm ready to go. The city streets are filled with snow. I hate to wake you up to say goodbye...
But I will. And soon, Great Pumpkin willing, I'll say hello.
Thank you for everything.
January 18 2011, 00:11:36 UTC 6 years ago
I'm so glad that there were fantastic bits, and your analogy is the tiniest bit bleak and terribly lovely, as all things ephemeral are.
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*smacks you upside the head*
EAT THE FOODS.
(You know when it's me saying that, pot kettle and all. Still.)
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(Two out of those three things are on my mind just now, if the selection seems odd. *beth waves at her journal for the morbidly curious*)
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PitAccount, so it could be worse. I either need to catch you in that someday next time or get my bottom out to SF. ;) But hooray for a good time.January 18 2011, 21:18:18 UTC 6 years ago
January 18 2011, 00:44:46 UTC 6 years ago
I'd say the Seanan and Cat show was the highlight of the convention, except that there was that whole getting to sit and talk to you for hours the night before.
I feel so privileged. Thank you for making my weekend so filled with awesome.
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January 19 2011, 03:51:12 UTC 6 years ago
It was lovely seeing you at the con!
If you don't mind my asking - I was catching up on LJ on the way home from Arisia (while I was a passenger, not driving!) and I mentioned your mention of allergic reaction in the car and speculated on whether it had been something from the breakfast buffet - and my two fellow traveler's reminded me that one of them (who normally has guts of steel and no food allergies or intolerances) had felt ill on Sunday for the most of the day, and asked me to ask you whether your allergic sick woes may have been from something eaten at the breakfast buffet.
They are of the view that more data points is good information to mention as con feedback, in case it was a food thing.
January 19 2011, 22:13:20 UTC 6 years ago
I did not die.
January 21 2011, 16:45:30 UTC 6 years ago
I wish we had gotten to chat more (both weekends), but I figured (perhaps incorrectly) you'd be pretty busy. (Also, I can't believe I never got around to introducing you to
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