WisCon 43: Day Two

Farmer's market day! I got up early-ish and went with renay and echthroi for a stroll around the capitol. I mostly picked up food for later -- cheese curds, meat sticks (excellent for the plane ride home), a mini-zucchini loaf, some maple candy. Then for actual breakfast, we went back to the pasty restaurant. The breakfast pasty was tasty but would have been better if they gave me the bacon I ordered instead of sausage. I munched down my food in the lobby, and then -- after dropping off the rest of my food in my room -- spent some time in the dealer's room. This year, I indulged myself in three pairs of earrings, one to go with the fabulous pendant that I bought at Worldcon last year, which I plan to show off tomorrow.

Lunch was gyros with forestofglory and coolcurrybooks. On the way back, I made a pitstop for some fudge, and then I attended readingtheend's very first panel, a discussion of what to do when your childhood faves are visited by the suck fairy (although interestingly enough, no one used that terminology). A few off moments, but overall a good panel, maybe my favorite of the con so far that I wasn't part of. Hashtag here, including multiple livetweeters. Afterwards, I stayed in the same room for a panel on found family (hashtag), which had some nice conversation but felt mostly like ground I've heard covered on other panels before. Last panel of the day was forestofglory, about feminist biology, and that was really interesting (and modded by Annalee Newitz -- I will go listen to her talk about pretty much anything). Hashtag here.

Next up was dinner, where a whole gang of us gathered to celebrate justira's birthday a week early, then went for pizza. forestofglory and I then dropped by the last bit of the Tiptree Auction, which was a blast as always, and where I bought two mystery bags of MORE jewelry (a pair of earrings and a necklace, which by some miracle actually matched pretty well). I also dropped by Vylar Kaftan's book launch party, where I got to chat with a few folks I missed seeing at FogCon this year, followed by another trip to the bar, where renay and I had a lovely conversation with Alex Acks.

Now I'm in my room, winding down a little as I snack on cheese curds (although that should probably stop soon, as bedtime approaches). My two big social media panels are tomorrow -- wish me luck!