Birds of a Feather
I spent this afternoon at Conclave that's being held at one of the airport hotels and had a great day. Last night was a little rough as I was honestly far too tired to attempt being social around strangers, today on the other hand was great. Also I've discovered that the best music to make me feel better about the world seems to be Jakob Dylan, I sing along and feel hopeful.
I drove over around two o'clock, signed up for a coffee clatch and played in the Dealer's Room. I ended up finding a jade bracelet that said hi to me and now I have a bracelet to wear all the time, a shirt that says Barrayan Imperial Academy, gorgeous earrings with cranes on them, a book called Loki by Mike Vasich who signed it for me and I'm wearing my Wicked Girl Saving Herself shirt that I picked up from seanan_mcguire herself at the coffee clatch. The coffee clatch was amazing, basically we sat in part of the con suite and just talked. Most of the conversation was about parasites and disease control and I really have to read the Newsflesh books now as I've heard Seanan's enthusiasm for doing the research for them. I discovered that I didn't miss anything by not reading the Jane Austen mash up books, which I'm very glad to hear as they sounded dubious to me. This is the site for the company that I bought my shirt off of, its small and local and does cool stuff.
One of my favorite things about cons no matter the size is how you can always find someone to connect to and people don't mind if you just insert yourself into conversations. When I bought my bracelet, I ended up talking to another librarian who also writes m/m fiction and mentioned Storm Moon Press and that I have friends who write and publish. I gave her a rec for a job posting site and we talked some about the world of publishing and it made me grin. I've discovered there's a guy who has shirts, mugs and tote bags with designs inspired by the Vorkosigan series and I was good and only bought one shirt. My main complaint with this con is that things seem oddly timed to me, it probably feels quite different if you're staying over but there was a dearth of things to do between afternoon and evening so I haven't gone to any of the concerts as I'd rather reconnect to people here than feel awkward among strangers for three hours. Tomorrow I'm going to go back and hopefully hear a least one panel as I keep just missing them and get some books signed and I think buy a CD. I'm trying very hard to not buy books even though there is an incredibly tempting display but instead buy things I couldn't get elsewhere like cds by that could be signed by one of the signers, fan specific gear and such. I took a picture of my haul and will post it when I next put pictures up and those who bought the Wicked Girls' shirts, mine is beautiful, comfortable and well worth the wait.
I love the fan community and I'm so glad that I took a chance and drove out to Conclave.
I drove over around two o'clock, signed up for a coffee clatch and played in the Dealer's Room. I ended up finding a jade bracelet that said hi to me and now I have a bracelet to wear all the time, a shirt that says Barrayan Imperial Academy, gorgeous earrings with cranes on them, a book called Loki by Mike Vasich who signed it for me and I'm wearing my Wicked Girl Saving Herself shirt that I picked up from seanan_mcguire herself at the coffee clatch. The coffee clatch was amazing, basically we sat in part of the con suite and just talked. Most of the conversation was about parasites and disease control and I really have to read the Newsflesh books now as I've heard Seanan's enthusiasm for doing the research for them. I discovered that I didn't miss anything by not reading the Jane Austen mash up books, which I'm very glad to hear as they sounded dubious to me. This is the site for the company that I bought my shirt off of, its small and local and does cool stuff.
One of my favorite things about cons no matter the size is how you can always find someone to connect to and people don't mind if you just insert yourself into conversations. When I bought my bracelet, I ended up talking to another librarian who also writes m/m fiction and mentioned Storm Moon Press and that I have friends who write and publish. I gave her a rec for a job posting site and we talked some about the world of publishing and it made me grin. I've discovered there's a guy who has shirts, mugs and tote bags with designs inspired by the Vorkosigan series and I was good and only bought one shirt. My main complaint with this con is that things seem oddly timed to me, it probably feels quite different if you're staying over but there was a dearth of things to do between afternoon and evening so I haven't gone to any of the concerts as I'd rather reconnect to people here than feel awkward among strangers for three hours. Tomorrow I'm going to go back and hopefully hear a least one panel as I keep just missing them and get some books signed and I think buy a CD. I'm trying very hard to not buy books even though there is an incredibly tempting display but instead buy things I couldn't get elsewhere like cds by that could be signed by one of the signers, fan specific gear and such. I took a picture of my haul and will post it when I next put pictures up and those who bought the Wicked Girls' shirts, mine is beautiful, comfortable and well worth the wait.
I love the fan community and I'm so glad that I took a chance and drove out to Conclave.