One of the things I miss about being a  contractor is having vast amounts of cash roll in every week. There are quite a few things I'd like to do this year. But I do have to budget for it. I also need to budget holiday time. Not sure what I should pick. I already have a few days in a cabin in the Lake District - this was a gift from my parents via ( Read more... )

The whole Cosplay and hall costumes thing isn't as big here as the more visual media oriented but there are plenty of people in costumes milling about. I went for my Dread Pirate Roberts look again, because it's easy and stylish, and only gets confused with Zorro 25% of the time. Also went for the Indiana Jones look the next day because he's also ( Read more... )

(There are some sorta-spoilers for the book if you're particularly spoiler phobic ( Read more... )

Registration

So, I missed the opening ceremony because the queue was crazy long (also because I had to go back and fetch my passport). As it turned out, I didn't need my passport because I was recognised by the person on the reg desk. There were complaints about the length of this.

Fan VillageThis has had a lot of praise and a little bit of ( Read more... )

Worldcon is big! Really Big! And lots of things happened and I have no idea how to approach it. I don't want to do an "I did this, then I did that" and I don't want to switch to by habitual review mode! Because it's not really about that ( Read more... )

Well, I finally know what I'm doing at work.  Now I just have to work out how to do it.  2 weeks have whizzed by ( Read more... )

It seems pretty much inevitable that Worldcon 2010 will be in Melbourne.  It made me realise I really want to go there.  I then realised I don't reallyneed an excuse and could go sooner than 3 years time ( Read more... )

Went to blogging panel. Touched on fanfic and the associated vocabulary being applied to mainstream lit ( Read more... )

If you wear a badge saying "It's my 31st birthday. Give me hugs", you get lots of hugs. I was totally shameless in accepting them.

And I got presents. I got a box of Arizona candy and a Koala:)

Masquerade was running a bit late. Not even the Japanese can get that to run on time ( Read more... )