Wiscon 32 Day 3
Sun, May. 25th, 2008 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterAlas, the trend of non-explodey panels did not continue...
My head didn't explode per se, but I went to several that left me feeling very unsettled, and I'm still not able to fully articulate why (one on class and one on race). On the plus side, the one I was on, Can Internet Drama Change the World?, seemed to go well and left me feeling happy. And there were a surprising amount of people for a 10 AM Sunday panel! Will start writing things up once I'm back home.
Loot so far has been remarkably restrained, largely because Mely never managed to go to the dealer's room with me. I got Nisi Shawl's short story collection, her and Cynthia Ward's Writing the Other, Andrea Hairston's Mindscape, and Maureen F. McHugh and Timmi DuChamp's short story collection.
Fooding has continued to be good, with a meal at a tapas place with Timmi and Mely, which included Spanish flatbread loaded with asparagus and artichokes, an egg and potato fritatta-like thing, really tender skewered chicken (meat on a stick!), baked goat cheese, and seared scallops wrapped in some cured meat. Then, as I could not convince![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladyjax to go for deep-fried eggrolls stuffed with cookie dough, h.l. and I went off together to Bluefries, which is a fusion diner (I know, interesting). We had rice balls that were risotto with gouda cheese rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried, which were gooey and melty and very good; a chicken sandwich with caramelized onions and fig paste on foccacia; and aforementioned fried eggrolls stuffed with cookie dough. They are awesome, except for the unfortunate side effect of spewed gooey cookie dough everywhere when you bite into one.
I am also too tired to write up my reactions to Timmi's Guest of Honor speech, which was excellent and had parts that made me feel punched in the stomach (thank GOD I didn't grow up in the 50s and 60s) and parts that had me grinning like a lunatic. I was planning on going to parties after that, since I have managed to either not know about Carl Brandon Society events until two minutes before or have panels scheduled against them and have only gotten to hang out with Lady J and Coniraya for a little, but I was tired of crowds. Mostly, Yoon, Mely, h.l. and I hung around while h.l. explained things about vidding. Aaaand... clearly my plan to go to bed early for my 7 AM flight has already gone awry.
On the other hand, my poor travel luck has continued, and apparently my flight was cancelled and I was booked on another flight an hour later. The hour later is a plus, but not flying throughvom_marlowe's city is a VERY LARGE MINUS. Boooo. Will attempt to wrangle with the airport tomorrow, as both airlines apparently cannot do anything about the schedule.
My head didn't explode per se, but I went to several that left me feeling very unsettled, and I'm still not able to fully articulate why (one on class and one on race). On the plus side, the one I was on, Can Internet Drama Change the World?, seemed to go well and left me feeling happy. And there were a surprising amount of people for a 10 AM Sunday panel! Will start writing things up once I'm back home.
Loot so far has been remarkably restrained, largely because Mely never managed to go to the dealer's room with me. I got Nisi Shawl's short story collection, her and Cynthia Ward's Writing the Other, Andrea Hairston's Mindscape, and Maureen F. McHugh and Timmi DuChamp's short story collection.
Fooding has continued to be good, with a meal at a tapas place with Timmi and Mely, which included Spanish flatbread loaded with asparagus and artichokes, an egg and potato fritatta-like thing, really tender skewered chicken (meat on a stick!), baked goat cheese, and seared scallops wrapped in some cured meat. Then, as I could not convince
ladyjax to go for deep-fried eggrolls stuffed with cookie dough, h.l. and I went off together to Bluefries, which is a fusion diner (I know, interesting). We had rice balls that were risotto with gouda cheese rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried, which were gooey and melty and very good; a chicken sandwich with caramelized onions and fig paste on foccacia; and aforementioned fried eggrolls stuffed with cookie dough. They are awesome, except for the unfortunate side effect of spewed gooey cookie dough everywhere when you bite into one. I am also too tired to write up my reactions to Timmi's Guest of Honor speech, which was excellent and had parts that made me feel punched in the stomach (thank GOD I didn't grow up in the 50s and 60s) and parts that had me grinning like a lunatic. I was planning on going to parties after that, since I have managed to either not know about Carl Brandon Society events until two minutes before or have panels scheduled against them and have only gotten to hang out with Lady J and Coniraya for a little, but I was tired of crowds. Mostly, Yoon, Mely, h.l. and I hung around while h.l. explained things about vidding. Aaaand... clearly my plan to go to bed early for my 7 AM flight has already gone awry.
On the other hand, my poor travel luck has continued, and apparently my flight was cancelled and I was booked on another flight an hour later. The hour later is a plus, but not flying through
vom_marlowe's city is a VERY LARGE MINUS. Boooo. Will attempt to wrangle with the airport tomorrow, as both airlines apparently cannot do anything about the schedule.Tags: