Dizzy Saturday morning

[mrissa]

The internet connection is being unbearably slow this morning -- timing out most things it tries -- so I'm going to see if I can upload this later, at a good moment.

I hear tell that getting enough sleep at cons is important, but I don't think they meant that I should sleep 12 of the last 24 hours. Well--it wasn't all sleeping per se. Some of it was kind of lying down drifting. I no longer have stomach cramps or feel I need to be within ten feet of the bathroom at all times, but I'm pretty dizzy still. I think this is just the tail end of Thursday's food poisoning. Hope so. We've figured out that if I'm not steadier by tomorrow, porphyrin and Mike have two drivers and one car, so porphyrin has offered that she could drive my car and I could ride in the backseat of theirs and change DVDs for Robin. Hope we don't have to do it that way, but it's nice to have the option figured out.

I made it to two panels yesterday. "The Bedroom, or What's This Sex Scene Doing in My Fantasy?" featured Gregory Frost, Eileen Gunn, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Maria V. Snyder, and Jennifer Stevenson. Nobody had to resort to reading examples at length (although TNH did use a recent bit from Making Light), and I had a decent time. If anything, it made me want to read Jennifer Stevenson's stuff a bit more, because it sounded like she had more focus on humor than I might have thought from her book covers. I can stomach a great deal more romance in the name of humor.

The second panel was "Adapting the Brothers Grimm & Other Fairy Tales." Umm. It had the makings of a great panel, with Delia Sherman, Terri Windling, and Jane Yolen. David Drake was on it briefly, but he didn't seem to think he was well-placed there, and he had something else to attend halfway through. But the moderator was Dennis McKiernan. Oh my. Do you want to know the name of every book he has ever had published or will have published soon? We can tell you. His superhero name is apparently Captain Buymybook, or maybe Self-Promotion Man. He dragged the whole panel down. Something like half the audience left in the middle. It was really a shame, because I was interested in what Sherman, Windling, and Yolen had to say. But everyone has their limits, and that was mine, and I was not alone. (cristalia to me, mid-panel, sotto voce: "You're twitching." Well, yah.)

Other than that, I hung out with several people and met a few more, talked to some agents, ate meals on schedule, and managed not to find ksumnersmith. She has been spotted by people who can see her all the time in Toronto. This does not help me any. I think there are at least three people I would really like to find still, although I would also like to spend more time with an assortment of folks if I can manage to keep upright long enough. cristalia and sosostris2012 suggested that katallen and I should get a palanquin. I think this is a good idea. I know how to do the proper wave and everything. Also, I will be very easy to spot in a palanquin, so the people I'm looking for can come to me, maybe. It's a theory, anyway.

It looks like this morning would be a good time to go to a couple of readings and maybe pick up my shiny. I also hear tell that there's an lj gathering today from 3-5 in the bar or the overflow bar (I wasn't clear which, but they're close to each other anyway).

Wow. This is a really, really sucky connection this morning. Ah, there we go: hello, world of the internet!

Comments

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I like the palanquin idea. I have this vision of you languishing behind the curtains, occasionally extending one pale, languid hand for the masses to touch . . . maybe bestowing some writerly knowledge if the palanquin bearers are handsome and the stars are right. :-) I hope you're feeling better soon so you can enjoy the rest of the con.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would have liked to do a good deal less languishing this con, and I feel that I should be a sink, not a source, of writerly wisdom at a World Fantasy.

But I thoroughly approve of handsome palanquin bearers. Well, retrobabble, ccfinlay, and sksperry were plenty comely with the chicken soup, which is really more than one can reasonably ask.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Jennfier Stevenson's novel, Trash Sex Magic, is funny. Give it a try.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

WisCon is one of the few places where a palanquin would be appropriate.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Those Who Know inform me that this definitely doesn't feel like a WisCon -- that it does, but it doesn't. So I don't know.

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I guess if I'd read this earlier I could've gone to the LJ gathering.

Are you still going to be around on Sunday morning? You don't sound really up to hunting people down but I would like to wave hello in person if we get the chance.

I do hope your Saturday went ok!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We're leaving in the mid-late morning, me and porphyrin and Mike. I wasn't at the lj party. Too sick. (More on that later.) So basically, if you're in the lobby this morning, we can wave, and otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to catch you next time. Sorry!

[bradipo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes people praise a book so fervently that I'm put off from reading it. That sort of overenthusiastic praise makes me think either the person is odd (which is not a negative, but which makes it hard to know whether our tastes in books is similar) or that the book is odd (which is also not a negative, but again is not a good predictor as to whether I'd like the book or not).

Because I figure other people react the way I do, I always try to be calm and understated when I praise Trash Sex Magic.

I especially liked the rural Midwest setting--roughly halfway between where I grew up and where I live now--which absolutely nails the details of the natural world. Over and over again I was saying, "Yep, she knows what spring is like in my part of the world.

[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that biology is interfering with your enjoyment of the Con. I hope the experience was still worthwhile, overall?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ummm. There were good things about it, let's say that.

[larryhammer]

Hope you got it home okay and are cossetting yourself on a warm recliner with good liquids.

Dennis is a friend, but I avoided the Fairy Tale panel because the lineup looked like an immiscable fluid. Ellen would have been a better moderator (or Jane Yolen, except she hardly ever seems to moderate).

---L.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We don't have a recliner, but I spent almost all of yesterday in bed. I got up this morning for food (yay, food!) but will probably spend much of today in bed as well, and the rest on the sofa. And markgritter was being my cabana boy and bringing me fresh juice at regular intervals, so that was very good.

Ah, panels. It's frustrating, too, when you know people have interesting things to say, and they're saying something else instead. And I've seen friends in self-promotion mode and been embarrassed for them, too; hope I don't do it to too many people when my time comes.