The Book of Lost Things
... perhaps a more correct title for the post would be "The Thing of Lost Books".
After calls to the hotel, several checks with the lovely and talented McPhails who shared ride and room for the con, and a post to the Lunacon LJ community, it appears that the bag I apparently left at Lunacon is well and truly lost, along with all the books contained therein.
I'm very pissed about this--at myself more than anything else. None of the books are irreplaceable, but two were very important: One was a gift to me by its author (sorry, hon!), someone about whom I care a great, great deal, and whose writing I love almost as much as the person herself , and the other (by the same author) was to be a gift for someone else on this Friends list.
And while I'm not exactly flush with scads of cash (say that ten times fast) at the moment, a hundred bucks or so isn't going to break me.
Still.
Booooooooksss ...
After calls to the hotel, several checks with the lovely and talented McPhails who shared ride and room for the con, and a post to the Lunacon LJ community, it appears that the bag I apparently left at Lunacon is well and truly lost, along with all the books contained therein.
I'm very pissed about this--at myself more than anything else. None of the books are irreplaceable, but two were very important: One was a gift to me by its author (sorry, hon!), someone about whom I care a great, great deal, and whose writing I love almost as much as the person herself , and the other (by the same author) was to be a gift for someone else on this Friends list.
And while I'm not exactly flush with scads of cash (say that ten times fast) at the moment, a hundred bucks or so isn't going to break me.
Still.
Booooooooksss ...