Covention news: the good, the bad, the sorrowful.

[cadhla]

The Good: Gafilk was absolutely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and the convention was so awesome. Big, big thanks go out to my last-minute backing band, which assembled at the eleventh hour to make sure I wouldn't spend the entire weekend sitting at the bottom of a deep pit of suck. My concert went well, my Interfilk donations raised a lot of

Comments

[thnidu]

You gotta take care of yourself, sugar, or there won't be enough left of you for us!

[jenrose1]

We'll miss you at Conflikt, but am I assuming correctly that you'll still be at Consonance, even if you won't be head of programming? We're going for the first time this year.

ETA: We went to GaFilk last year, and don't let anyone tell you it doesn't snow there, it snowed last year too, and we froze all weekend.

[autographedcat]

The big difference is that last year, it snowed on Thursday, fouling up people getting in, and was largely a memory by Friday afternoon. The snow this year hit on Sunday, and it's *still here*

We get snow from time to time in Atlanta, but only about every 5 or 10 years on this scale. That's why the city tends to shut down when it happens. On a macroeconomic scale, it's actually cheaper than establishing the necessary infrastructure to deal with it.

(Also, as a contrast, in 2002 at Gafilk 5, the weather was sunny, clear, and about 70F the entire weekend. Georgia weather is highly schizophrenic in January.)

[jenrose1]

I've gone to Atlanta at Christmas and had it be balmy enough to feel like walking into someone's mouth, and then seen it snow a few days later. Crazygonuts.

Eugene shuts down for snow too, to a point. We get a little most years, they just build in snow days to the schedule and keep kids home if the roads are bad. I'm actually impressed that the town has gotten slightly more ice-tolerant of late, we've had several mornings in a row where the ground had a hard frost on it that made walking interesting, but they still kept the schools open. But if there's visible snow on the roads, that's it, everything comes to a sliding halt.

[keristor]

It snowed at least one of the times I was at GaFilk as well (the last time I was there was 2001, so it was probably a year or two before that).

[smoooom]

Re the Sorrowful: Sometimes it's good to know when you are over committed. I know it doesn't feel good, trust me on that one, being less involved with FilKONtario has sucked beyond belief. I know you know this but I think it bears repeating, you've made a good smart decision, good for you and the convention. Good for us as well, more book right? (G) Sorry, couldn't help it, I love your books, the fact the FEED had become a comfort book is down right scary. It a Zombie book, I still don't do Zombies. Except for FEED.

[jenk]

It shocked my friends that I liked FEED more than the Toby books, because I've been reading urban fantasy/paranormal before it was a genre and have never been into zombies. Yet more proof that genre isn't everything. ;)

[smoooom]

It makes me glad that I'm not the only one in this situation. I love the Toby books, But FEED did something to me that I can not explain. I've tried to get others to read FEED but they can't get past the Zombie bit. Genre is not everything, it isn't even a good starting point sometimes.

[idancewithlife]

FEED was the best book I read last year, and like many of you, I read a lot of books. The Toby books are a great deal of fun (ALH is my fav so far), but FEED's worldbuilding and cast of characters was just amazing. The pacing, surprises, and non-stop action didn't hurt, either. At this point I expect the re-read the FEED more often than I re-read the first three Toby books.

[keristor]

So you could say that between the con in Seattle and the cats there is a Conflikt?

Agreed with others, you need to take care of yourself. But rilly kewl that your cousin is running things instead of you, keeping it n the family...

The Sorrowful

[maverick_weirdo]

I give you full credit for making the tough choices.

I know Lara will do an amazing job.