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Thursday: After I eventually made it out there (after waking up sick *again*), I made it to a panel I was interested in (How to Schmooze). Mary Robinette Kowal is a really good panelist! And she seems like a very fun person; I'm sad to have missed her book launch thing. It was Friday night. Then I walked through the dealers hall and chatted with Sam of BullSpec and some other people until it was time to meet people for the Broad Universe meet-up. We went to the Flying Saucer.
Friday: Woke up sick again, decided it was time to go to the hospital, so I didn't make it at all. The fabulous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skogkatt read my story for me in the Broad Universe reading while I was in the ER. Thank you!
Saturday: Still in hospital, but I gave Ben my badge and asked him to go for me. He went to the panel I was most interested in (using the past in SF), which had Joe Haldeman on it, and he took notes. It looked like it was interesting.
Sunday: I went in to the con after picking up my stuff from W&G's, then I hung out with Julia and Natania, went to a panel (which was kinda boring, sadly), then talked over Starbucks drinks. Lee Martindale joined us at one point.
I'm mostly sad about missing thepartiesmeet and greets, because it sounds like a fun way to meet people and stuff. I have no idea how to manage that sort of thing at a con as huge as D*C, but I'll be trying it this year. Maybe Natania can help...
But! Natania mentioned she was going to Gaylaxicon next year, and Julia was thinking about it, so I might go and share a room with them.
And Julia is interested in/planning to go to WisCon, and I might be able to share a room with her and a friend of hers. That would get the cost down from "horrifying" to "manageable," because the largest expense outside of airfare to Madison is the $150/night hotel room for 4-5 nights.
WorldCon has a similar problem, and I'd *like* to go, but a) it's right before D*C, b) it's in RENO, and c) it'll cost me like $1300 to go, which just ... no. If I can get at least two roommates, I'm good. They'll be announcing the 2012 location during this year's WorldCon, which is D*C weekend.)
I wonder how askance the IRS would look at convention travel as a business expense for a writer. (Hey, it's networking, y'all. And WorldCon has writing workshops. And lots of Real Published Writers and editors and the like. Networking, yo.)
Friday: Woke up sick again, decided it was time to go to the hospital, so I didn't make it at all. The fabulous
skogkatt read my story for me in the Broad Universe reading while I was in the ER. Thank you!Saturday: Still in hospital, but I gave Ben my badge and asked him to go for me. He went to the panel I was most interested in (using the past in SF), which had Joe Haldeman on it, and he took notes. It looked like it was interesting.
Sunday: I went in to the con after picking up my stuff from W&G's, then I hung out with Julia and Natania, went to a panel (which was kinda boring, sadly), then talked over Starbucks drinks. Lee Martindale joined us at one point.
I'm mostly sad about missing the
But! Natania mentioned she was going to Gaylaxicon next year, and Julia was thinking about it, so I might go and share a room with them.
And Julia is interested in/planning to go to WisCon, and I might be able to share a room with her and a friend of hers. That would get the cost down from "horrifying" to "manageable," because the largest expense outside of airfare to Madison is the $150/night hotel room for 4-5 nights.
WorldCon has a similar problem, and I'd *like* to go, but a) it's right before D*C, b) it's in RENO, and c) it'll cost me like $1300 to go, which just ... no. If I can get at least two roommates, I'm good. They'll be announcing the 2012 location during this year's WorldCon, which is D*C weekend.)
I wonder how askance the IRS would look at convention travel as a business expense for a writer. (Hey, it's networking, y'all. And WorldCon has writing workshops. And lots of Real Published Writers and editors and the like. Networking, yo.)
