Welp!

This was going to be an accounting of my Worldcon experience, but it seems my freezer door was cracked (I suspect that it was unsealed by someone slamming a door nearby, as this building transmits vibrations like nobody's business, but can't be sure) and now I need to make a defrosting plan for my freezer. GDI.

ETA: Defrosting done, freezer now freezing again.

Worldcon Reportage,Thursday

I visited 3 panels, the art show, and tried to buy books except they closed the damn shops on me the moment I found something to buy.

So, first I and my minion registered, then like good Finns who eat at 11 (and we were still reeling at the time zone lag, so 9-10 local would've been an acceptable lunchtime), we tried to find lunch, except that the nation of Ireland doesn't have lunch available before 12. Hungry, we went to the first panel of the con, at the Odeon Point Square. They were in movie theaters, which was very comfortable, but the panelists couldn't really see the audience (so questions were hard) and it created a very ... distant feel between panelists and audience, in some way.

( panel listing and my mostly-unedited list-form notes )

Upcoming posts will deal with Worldcon days Fri-Sun, plus a post on the loot/what I read, and a post on my WDLF2 fics which will sort of hang on the aforementioned; for my assignment #2 I was very much influenced by A Memory Called Empire, and I sort of want to expose my "read this book, then wrote that" orders for this journey and the flashfic, which might be interesting to the one other person who has read what I have (but hasn't watched Guardian) and the one Guardian fan who's interested in metacreation (but hasn't read the books I read). Or maybe the Venn diagram circles will overlap, who knows?