We're all mad here

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I am returned from Readercon.

This was my third year in attendance, and as cons go, it was particularly awesome. High points included, but are not limited to, meeting eegatland (and hearing the first chapter of her novel-after-next The Sword Dance), sdn's stories about Lloyd Alexander, a very rapid conversation about film with Eric Van, the expression on time_shark's face after he won his third Rhysling Award, reading a collaboration with lesser_celery, recording three of my poems in Drew Morse's hotel room, and the entire panel on Angela Carter. The Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition ("Metal things that could think! Thinking metal things!") probably left me with permanent brain damage. I need to see yuki_onna and grailquestion (not to mention matociquala) in more than fleeting glimpses. My book haul was small, but worthy: Elizabeth E. Wein's The Lion Hunter, thanks to the dealer's room, and Ysabeau Wilce's Flora Segunda, thanks to rushthatspeaks. Next year, I am getting a room at the con hotel.

But first, I think I'm going to fall over.

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[ex-blue-verv849.livejournal.com]

I wish I didn't have to fly in and fly out like I did; it seems a really bad way to do a con.

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I wish I didn't have to fly in and fly out like I did; it seems a really bad way to do a con.

It was still good to see you. (You will have to stay longer next year.) Hearing "Papa Silenus Went Courting" was one of the other high points.

[ex-blue-verv849.livejournal.com]

Likewise seeing you, though I'd dearly love to chat sometime when there is a time for chatting I'm not quite so gobsmacked by everything.

I feel like I was very much in the presence of giants at the reading; I've been to one or two amateur poetry things when I was a lot younger, but all the poems in the reading were awesome and the people who wrote them knew what they were doing and why. I didn't feel out of place, either, once I'd read.

Thank you for being one of the first to clap when I went up to read. That meant a lot.

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Likewise seeing you, though I'd dearly love to chat sometime when there is a time for chatting I'm not quite so gobsmacked by everything.

Yes. Anything else you'd come up to Boston for?

I didn't feel out of place, either, once I'd read.

Good!

Thank you for being one of the first to clap when I went up to read. That meant a lot.

You're welcome. Thank you for reading.

[ex-blue-verv849.livejournal.com]

Yes. Anything else you'd come up to Boston for?

I come up infrequently; my best friend in the world lives up in Caimbridge, but will be moving to NYC in August; I have some other very excellent friends up there as well, who I see far less than I'd like, and August is looking, unlike the rest of July, wedding-free. I will definitely let you know when I visit the city, which I've resolved to do more often, when I get the chance.

You're welcome. Thank you for reading.
It was pretty much like teaching, and I've had classes bigger than the audience, so no worries there. The con was, in all a really good experience in terms of learning and figuring out a direction, and, to a certain extent, feeling like a professional.