Date: 2008-08-10 01:42 Subject: Terminus Day Four, part two Security: Public Tags: terminus

Terminus Day Four, Part Two

Artists and Authors Night

Just a quick recap of tonight's festivities. Got to see littleblackbow's portfolio presentation, which was not only awesome because the art is beautiful, but she gave a really fascinating presentation on artistic composition and technique (about which I know very little) and paints and pens and such. I was wholly captivated. And I got a Snape button to go with my Draco button so I am very very very happy. The simplest things can make me happy sometimes. :-)

Also saw the art/craft presentation by Shae Merrit in which she showed the time-collapsed Youtube video of herself making a Witherwings purse out of duct tape and electrical tape. It had gotten featured on Youtube and has been watched like 700,000 times. It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO72seZKgu0

It apparently caused the spillover of like 3000 hits to the wizard Wrock band whose logo is on it.

I also dropped by the drabble booth and chatted with various people at the Fiction Alley table, and then went upstairs for an hour to read the two chapters I am behind on Jordan Grant's OWNED series. (Because if I didn't, I was surely going to get spoiled about what happened very soon... all three of my roomies read the series, too.)

Then I went back downstairs to catch Mechaieh, aka Bronze Ribbons, read from the Snape/Lupin story D'Accord, D'Accord, which is in the zine I edited for the reading night. Baklava is mentioned in the story (in which postwar Snape and Lupin are in Chicago, having taken up positions in Muggle academics, and eat in Greektown) and she very thoughtfully brought baklava for a treat for her audience. Yum! (Every time I read the story, I get a craving for it!)

And then it was back upstairs to do some hp_tarot mod duties, and take a turn in my RPG, and then, oh yeah, make this post. Time for sleep now. We get to sleep in tomorrow because we didn't pay the extra dough to hear Tamora Pierce speak! She's awesome but, I need the money and the sleep more.

Last day is tomorrow!

Date: 2008-08-10 20:43 Subject: Terminus Day Five Security: Public Tags: terminus

Terminus Day Five

Last day of Terminus! I'm soooooo tired. Slept like a stone last night, but only seven hours or so. Didn't go to as many presentations, since a two hour slot was taken up in the morning for the keynote that I didn't pay to see. And then clauclauclaudia and I had a leisurely breakfast so I missed the presentation on wizard dueling I had been interested in.

( First up, Latin for Wizards )

I then landed in the Room of Requirement with a lot of the friends I made, drabbling and drawbling in each other's friendship books. I wrote a LOT Of haikus for people this weekend. Most of them smutty or suggestive, of course. No, I don't have copies of them so if you want to read them, you'll have to beg people like bethbethbeth, chibitoaster, gatewaygirl, djinn7, amanuensis1, ze_dragon, alisanne, jin_fenghuang, nimori, and sassy_cissa to post them. (I've lost track of all the ones I've done...) We also coined a new term for "Snarco," which is "Drapery." Yay!

( Then, LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD: Authorship, Ownership, and Fan Appropriation )

At 4pm I was too tired to go to One More Panel, so I landed back in the Room of Requirement to do some more haiku, and then got ready to go to dinner.

Later, just got back from a fabulous spanish dinner with much sangria, paella, and tapas with silver_ariel (who had been to the restaurant before), and lesyeuxverts, Val (eeek, what's your LJ name again?), claudclauclaudia, jin_fenghuang, chibitoaster, and gatewaygirl. Now we're getting dressed for the Bon Voyage Ball. Tomorrow there's a goodbye breakfast, and then the con is done! We'll probably spend the afternoon in Caribou Coffee where there's free wireless before we go to the airport. If there are no delays, I'll be back on the ground in Boston just after 9pm!