Aug. 17th, 2018

owlmoose: (ffx2 - paine glance)
(Written yesterday, accidentally forgot to post.)

I am in San Jose! And although I've been in San Jose many times, I've never been here quite like this: hanging out with good friends and new friends, eating tasty food and playing silly games and looking forward to a few days more.

No programming for me today, because I arrived a little too late. Instead, I picked up a few people at the airport, and we drove down together after a stop at the grocery store for lunch and snacks. Then we checked in, registered, found some other folks for a quick dinner, and then gathered for a room party we'd planned with some other friends.

Okay, so I've only been here for six hours, but I am already confident that the room party is going to be one of the highlights of my con. It was a potluck, with the understandable limitations of folks who were traveling here. I bought bread and made blondies (which were well received), [personal profile] forestofglory brought local cheeses, other folks brought candies and other tasty treats from their parts of the world, and we all munch and chatted about a glorious range of topics: Star Trek, con politics, Stephen Universe, and so many other things. Then we decided to adjourn to the bar for a round of Slash, one of my favorite party games, where there was much laughter to be had over drinks.

Since most people were tired from traveling, we're all settling down a bit early, which is fine by me: gives me a little time to go through the program again, plan out my next day, and catch some of tonight's Critical Role. I'm looking forward to getting to programming tomorrow as well as seeing more people (I've already made plans to connect with SE at a panel before lunch), and just having a nice time disappearing into con space.

If you're here, let me know! I'm staying in the Hilton, and although I have a few things plan, my schedule is mostly quite flexible.
owlmoose: (towel dog)
Maybe today I will actually hit post and get this post up on the day I write it...

So! Today was the first full day of Worldcon, and it was pretty great. I attended one presentation, two panels, and a reading. The presentation was about the depiction of librarians in SFF, the panels were about food and architecture, and the reading featured Kate Elliott and Foz Meadows; add in the fact that I put in a bid on a shiny blue necklace at the art show and bought art featuring cats, and I'm feeling very on-brand right now. (All it needs is some politics and some feminism, and I got plenty of both throughout today's conversations, so there you go).

I also saw lots of people and had great conversations with some of them. Introduced SE to the Slack gang, and thankfully everyone got along just as swimmingly as I hoped the might. I also had lunch with an old friend I hadn't seen much of lately, which was great. Wandered the dealers room (where there is still much more to see), ate dinner at food trucks, had friends over to our hotel room for drinks and snacks and more conversation, and it was just a really full, fun time. Already looking forward to tomorrow. :)

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