I'm trying to decide whether Worldcon is worth the expense and the logistics hassle this year. It's in Chicago, so it's reasonably close to me, but it's at the end of August, which is still during field season. Before I make my decision, is anyone flying out for Worldcon who would like to try to influence me to go?

I am on panels at Precon. However, the other people in my hotel room are not planning to go to Precon.  I am looking for space to crash Thursday night.  My preference is for a bed (or couch or portion thereof) in a hotel room, I am also open to staying with someone in Waltham if we can work out transportation.  I currently actually have a hotel ( Read more... )

 So, this Arisia definitely ranked high on my all-time list of best con experiences.  This con was full of music and dancing, things that are almost guaranteed to improve any experience for me.  The biggest thing that pushed this con from a good con to an amazing con for me was, of course, the joint Stranger Ways and Sassafrass concert.  Playing ( Read more... )

 Otherwise known as How many hours of programming have I signed up for?

Saturday: 7.25 hrs
12-2pm: Sassafrass and Stranger Ways joint concert
3-4pm: Poly household panel
4-5pm: Poly 201
6:30-7:45pm Funny song sing-a-long
9-11pm Time Travel Review Board (LARP)

Sunday: 4.5 hrs
3-5pm Waytes play for Renaissance dance
5-6:15pm LARP War stories
6:30pm - Bawdy ( Read more... )

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If you're attending Arisia this year, Stranger Ways and Sassafrass will be performing back to back from 11a-1p on Saturday, Jan 15! Come see the show! :)

For those who don't know, Stranger Ways is the folk group I'm in with usernamenumber , natbudin , and zebediah , and Sassafrass is the a capella group that faerieboots , juldea , aurelia_star  are in (along with many others).

So, I was at Building 19 the other day getting props for Fire on High and a few other things. In the assorted mess that is Building 19, I found Rollerblades, and knew immediately that I needed a pair ( Read more... )

I guess it's that time. Would anyone be interested in sharing a room at Intercon with John and I? Ideally we probably want a room of four people.
Yay! Intercon. Right, time to go get back to editing those character sheets.

So, I'm finally physically and mentally from two weeks in Washington. I got in Tuesday night around 10pm, and I spent the past two days trying to get my brain sufficiently together to be ready to run off to Arisia. I think I'm entirely on this coast now
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    Next weekend is Boskone, where I will be babysitting. I suppose it's a ( Read more... )

I have returned from my second ever adventure off the continent. If any of you still don't know, I spent two weeks in Spain and Italy with my family. It was, of course, amazing. Here I stop to save anyone who doesn't want to read two weeks worth of ( rambling. )