Greetings from O'Hare

In the airport waiting for my flight home, which leaves in just over an hour. I spent yesterday and today working in the Chicago office, which is not that different from working in my regular office, but there are different people there, including some folks who I've been working with for years but never met in person. I had a meeting with one today, then lunch with several others, and it was very nice to see faces beyond the little windows on a Zoom/Teams screen (one person was way shorter than I expected, for example). Yesterday I also had a lovely dinner with lassarina by the river, where we had wine and burrata and chatted merrily about life and fandom, and it was very excellent to spend a little time with her. Overall I would say it's been a quite enjoyable trip, and now I'm ready to get home to T and cat and bed.

As for next Worldcon, I don't have plans to go to Chengdu -- too expensive and difficult to plan, and I don't really want my first trip to China to be without T. But I'll say there's a non-zero chance I get to Glasgow. I'm thinking about it, anyway. And then I think the only active bid for 2025 right now is Seattle, which I'd say is highly likely for me. Time will tell.