Sunday: Wandering around the city. Bought some shoes. Sat in Strand and read several books. Went to Mike's improv show, which was pretty good. Met Erin, who is unfortunately moving to Chicago ( Read more... )

Friday: I rested, introspected and over-thought. Then I went to my aunt & uncle's for dinner, which was quite nice. They insisted I take leftovers back with me to New jersey, which of course I did ( Read more... )

OVFF summary, short version: Met lots of nice people, most of whom I could spend nowhere near enough time with. Felt a little left out of well-knit community, will be better next time I go. Heard lots of great songs. All-in-all, sang a lot - I count 23 songs over the con (admittedly 6 of them were in the last hour or so of the dead dog, when I was ( Read more... )

I am quite tired, but I wanted to put some thoughts down now. Disorganized I know, but I can always add things as I remember them, which is safer then assuming I'll remember all I want to in a few days ( Read more... )

Yesterday I bought "The Gathering Storm" by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, Book 12 in the Wheel of Time series (out of 14). I started reading it just before bed. Today I finished it ( Read more... )

OVFF is fun. It took me a bit, because it feels like everyone knows everyone and I'm on the outside, but I actually do have friends here and know people. There was a chaos circle last night in the ballroom and I sang! Twice ( Read more... )

On Monday there was much shopping. Muuuch. I got a new coat! and some pants! and some books and comics, of course ( Read more... )

Arrived Thursday.
Friday- sleeeeeep. Lucy Kaplansky show in the evening. It was fun!
Saturday - Sleeeeeep. (Have that, you evil jet lag!)
Sunday - hang out with Mike, go to NY Knicks Vs. Maccabi Tel-Aviv expo game. Maccabi got their butts kicked but it was a good show and spectacle. Madison Square Garden chock full of Jews.
Monday- Ooh, hello!

I'll see a bunch of you soon and most of the rest of you in about 3 weeks.

I went to Icon today and it had no life ( Read more... )