Some notes now that I am home

[rushthatspeaks]

I don't know how much actual Wiscon reportage I'm going to get to, because I caught some variety of the Head Cold of Doom that a lot of people seem to have had, and I don't know if I'll manage to recover before everything fades out of immediacy in my memory. But a few small notes:

-- for a good writeup of the Dark Fantasy panel which was one of the highlights of my Friday, see truepenny's journal; for a good writeup of Sunday lunch, which involved coffeeandink, oyceter, and some very nice Japanese sf fans who talked with us about yaoi and anime and manga and James Tiptree Jr. and oh lots of things, see coffeeandink's journal.

-- the Wages of Trash panel, in which there was discussion of what books are considered 'trashy', and some discussion of why, and what value there might be in reading such books anyhow/because of that, was a great deal of fun, and if I manage to get my head together to write up any one scholarly sort of thing, that'll be it.

-- if anyone knows of a good writeup of 'The Librarian as Hero' panel, please point me at it, as it was the one panel I really wanted to get to that I missed.

-- boxofdelights, may her name be blessed, gave me a movie poster for 'Kirikou and the Sorceress', and I am very happy about it. In addition, it was in a poster tube that turned out to be industrial-strength-- due to my baggage limitations (I took a backpack), I had to grit my teeth, cross my fingers, pray, and check it on the airplane, and it came through without a dent. Yay!

-- matociquala made me a tool of the patriarchy. No, really. She bounced up to me and asked if I'd like to be a tool of the patriarchy, and when I said why not she gave me a sticker of a wrench, which I put on my con badge. I believe this had something to do with a reading group that was happening later that day, but I just like being able to go around saying that matociquala made me a tool of the patriarchy.

-- along the same lines, I forget with whom I was having an involved conversation when I noticed that I was going to be late for the Joanna Russ interview, but in case whoever it was reads this journal, I hope that I was not too confusing when I said that I had to go listen to Joanna Russ because Joanna Russ made me a lesbian. Usually I follow that statement with 'because reading her book The Female Man caused me to re-evaluate all sorts of tangled ideas that had been coursing around in my head since seventh grade and made everything suddenly make sense', and not with 'Oops! I have to go right now!'.

-- as I had suspected, yhlee and oyceter are absolutely perfect roommates. We should do this again sometime, only without the bits of the weekend which jumped up and down on Yoon's head.

-- was not sure what the heck to do when Rather Distinguished Editor complimented my toenail polish. I mean, I said 'Thank you', but where does one go from there? Besides the ladies' room, in a fit of panic.

-- I was sitting in elisem's Haiku Party, vaguely writing a haiku and talking with the charming, witty, and very nicely Gothic yuki_onna, who was standing across the table from me, when she happened to mention that she was trying to project a slightly more wholesome image for publicity reasons, as her new trilogy is mass-market and therefore expected to be vaguely younger-person friendly. Unfortunately I had to ask her to repeat herself-- I failed to hear her the first time, as our relative positions had caused me to be distracted by the very nicely Gothic elements of her shirt. I didn't do it on purpose, but I have to admit that dragging one's eyes forcibly upward and saying 'what?' upon being told that somebody is trying to project a more wholesome image is kind of funny.

I think I shall go back to lying on the couch, vaguely watching bad anime, and trying to sleep until my sinuses stop trying to kill me. Things such as commenting on other people's journals and catching up on email-- later.

Comments

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

how do I miss you at every con?

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I think cons have a kind of forcefield... I mean, I know for a fact that this was the third con I've been to which batwrangler also attended, but this one was the first time we met, for five minutes-- and I didn't meet one of my roommates at this con until Saturday morning, despite the fact that we both got in midday Friday.

Are you doing Readercon? We could make some kind of appointment.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Welcome back.

Nine

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh, please write up the Trash panel, I am dying to hear about it.

What color was your toenail polish?

Sorry about your sinuses. It's going around. I had it too.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Working on write-up.

The polish is blue. To match my hair.

Hope you're feeling better.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I hope to meet you at Wiscon next year. We went to the same prep school, a zillion years apart. Nevertheless, I suspect we have a lot in common.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

... and I know that you're correct that we have a lot in common because you used the word 'nevertheless'. Next year it is!

[larryhammer]

Yes, but which bad anime?

---L.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Dubbed Lupin III TV... which I couldn't follow. That's when you know you're Really Sick.

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

*pouts* Not a Goth. Just 'cause I have long black hair...I swear, I don't even own white face make-up.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... would you have preferred 'tracts of land'? I was trying to euphemize in a vaguely family-friendly fashion, as befits your new image.

I'm not a Goth either. I just wear a lot of black.

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

It's all to the good, as all things must tend. ;)