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Yesterday Martha and Katie came down from Austin and we had a really great day just hanging out and visiting. I'm really lucky to have such a wonderful family, down through the generations. I'm looking forward to being a great aunt to Katie's son.
So today I headed over to the WorldCon. Spike had evidently comped me the day. <3 I admit that the $75 one day price had been a bit daunting and I am very grateful. In the morning I mostly did the academic track and heard a couple of really interesting papers, the most interesting by Mary Anne Mohanraj on Rewritings of the Women of the Ramayana and of the Matter of Britain. It was part of a session on using folklore in your work. I missed the first speaker who was talking about Brazilian folklore. I asked them both for their papers and have gotten Ms. Mohanraj's back already. Then there was a session on "finding ourselves and our aliens" which was a paper on Will Eisner (creator of early graphic novels) and one on Jack Arnold (director Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc) that was much less interesting to me.
Then I wandered over to the dealers room and met Tiller's partner, Marilyn. Tiller had gotten horrible food poisoning and missed most of the Con today. I touched base with her and then wandered around checking out the dealers and the art show. Lots of nice stuff.
In the afternoon I went to sessions on censorship and on ebooks. Both were quite interesting (and had librarians among the panelists). Then Tiller pinged me and said he was feeling well enough to wander out and we met at Fogo de Chau and watched me each lots of amazing Brazilian bbq whilst he drank tea. It was a really nice visit... but I realize I didn't stop by the art show to pick up my quick sale piece. Ooops. Hopefully they will let Spike pick it up for me. But boy, do I feel like an idiot!
Other than that though, it was an awesome day!!!
So today I headed over to the WorldCon. Spike had evidently comped me the day. <3 I admit that the $75 one day price had been a bit daunting and I am very grateful. In the morning I mostly did the academic track and heard a couple of really interesting papers, the most interesting by Mary Anne Mohanraj on Rewritings of the Women of the Ramayana and of the Matter of Britain. It was part of a session on using folklore in your work. I missed the first speaker who was talking about Brazilian folklore. I asked them both for their papers and have gotten Ms. Mohanraj's back already. Then there was a session on "finding ourselves and our aliens" which was a paper on Will Eisner (creator of early graphic novels) and one on Jack Arnold (director Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc) that was much less interesting to me.
Then I wandered over to the dealers room and met Tiller's partner, Marilyn. Tiller had gotten horrible food poisoning and missed most of the Con today. I touched base with her and then wandered around checking out the dealers and the art show. Lots of nice stuff.
In the afternoon I went to sessions on censorship and on ebooks. Both were quite interesting (and had librarians among the panelists). Then Tiller pinged me and said he was feeling well enough to wander out and we met at Fogo de Chau and watched me each lots of amazing Brazilian bbq whilst he drank tea. It was a really nice visit... but I realize I didn't stop by the art show to pick up my quick sale piece. Ooops. Hopefully they will let Spike pick it up for me. But boy, do I feel like an idiot!
Other than that though, it was an awesome day!!!
