WorldCon > Olympics
Aug. 16th, 2024 12:31 amI have returned to Miss Creant's home. When you have a cat you're happy both going on vacation (because yay vacation) and coming back (because yay cat).
Another good thing about this vacation was that it took me away from the Paris Olympics. And the heat.
Glasgow was great -- though do be advised that there are now TWO statues of a guy on a horse with a cone on top. I saw a Dali at the Kelvingrove Museum and got to hold (part of) a narwhal tooth. Ate lots of haggis, it's delicious, fucking fight me.
Worldcon was A Lot, but mostly in a good way. I only needed to wear my knee brace once. There was one egregiously bad moderator on a panel I saw. I brought back a, shall we say, "at least it's not drugs" amount of books -- I should weigh them, I bet it'd be funny. Saw some great panels. Talked to many delightful people. My roomates, Lunik and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schneefink, got on like a house on fire (in Minecraft). I got clapped for once (for running the mike). Got many many many ribbons. Fucking love collection shit.
I had a literal "squirrel!" moment, where I was talking about being easily disctractible and went "squirrel!" in the middle of my next sentence. In my defence, there was, in fact, a squirrel.
Also got to meet up withnetgirl_y2k who was as delightful as last time, if not more <3
Another good thing about this vacation was that it took me away from the Paris Olympics. And the heat.
Glasgow was great -- though do be advised that there are now TWO statues of a guy on a horse with a cone on top. I saw a Dali at the Kelvingrove Museum and got to hold (part of) a narwhal tooth. Ate lots of haggis, it's delicious, fucking fight me.
Worldcon was A Lot, but mostly in a good way. I only needed to wear my knee brace once. There was one egregiously bad moderator on a panel I saw. I brought back a, shall we say, "at least it's not drugs" amount of books -- I should weigh them, I bet it'd be funny. Saw some great panels. Talked to many delightful people. My roomates, Lunik and
schneefink, got on like a house on fire (in Minecraft). I got clapped for once (for running the mike). Got many many many ribbons. Fucking love collection shit.I had a literal "squirrel!" moment, where I was talking about being easily disctractible and went "squirrel!" in the middle of my next sentence. In my defence, there was, in fact, a squirrel.
Also got to meet up with
netgirl_y2k who was as delightful as last time, if not more <3