Date: 2008-05-25 01:16 Subject: Wiscon, end of Saturday post Security: Public Tags: cons

It's 1am here at Wiscon and I am going to have to make this semi-quick, since I am on a panel at 10am tomorrow, the topic of which is... get this.... "Time to Put Down the Laptop." Yeah, I know.

I've had another full and fun day, slowed only slightly by the fact that the period that I thought started last week but didn't... finally started today with a vengeance. I refer to this as the "bleeding like a stuck pig" phase. And yes, I'm at a feminist science fiction convention so I feel perfectly empowered to talk about my period, thanks.
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Date: 2008-05-25 15:29 Subject: Wiscon, midday Sunday Security: Public

Back in the room now for a bit of downtime and more tea.

I've been living on hot tea today because allergies, blargh.

The con com is also going around sticking up signs everywhere saying "Stomach Flu Going Around Wiscon! Wash Your Hands!" I honestly think the hysteria created by the signs will probably result in more psychosomatic illnesses than the reminder to wash hands will prevent. It's a con after all. People are run down and tired and exposed to a lot of germs from people not from their native area.

I had the soup and salad bar for lunch in the hotel restaurant to combat the bug, because soup is like that. And tea, lots of tea, with lunch, in the green room, brought to the panel, and now I'm brewing a pot of it in the in-room coffee maker. tea tea tea. My sinuses feel perpetually dry and gunked up. Maybe I shouldn't have alcohol tonight. (All I had last night was about ¾ of a bottle of Guinness.)

So I forgot to write about last night's Earring Haiku Party. Elise Matheson makes a ton of earrings. You pick out a pair of earrings from the table, you show them to her and she gives you a title. You write a haiku using the title and earrings as your inspiration, and then you give her the haiku, and you keep the earrings. Here's mine:

LANDING BEACON

perfect rocketship
you orbit but you never
touch metal to soil

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