The con

[louiselux]

Ugh, Monday morning. Sore throat, tired, WORK.

How many people have fangirl throat this morning? I could say it was caused by squeeing non stop for 48 hours, but I think it's really a symptom of sharing a small, very warm hotel with 50-odd others for two days and meeting new germs.

The con was excellent, although I only attended one or two panels this year. Most of it was spent sitting around talking, drinking, watching vids and playing Slashopoly (Mayfair and Park Lane are the Wedding Chapel and the Maternity Ward respectively-- the only property I got to own was The Boss's Desk).

On Saturday morning we went for a very nice walk along the wind-tunnel that was the sea front into Tynemouth and had lunch and poked around in bookshops. Tynemouth has an absolutely enormous monument (the huge thing on the hill) to Admiral Collingwood, who apparently was in the battle of Trafalgar but failed to die demanding to be snogged by any sailors, so isn't very famous. But someone loved him, clearly.

I was so, so happy to meet new_kate, whose picture is in the dictionary next to 'adorable', and generally had a great time hanging out with daegaer, toscas_kiss, penelope_z, mandragora1, graculus and lasultrix, and other people who's names I wasn't sure of and didn't spend enough time talking to.

I left a bit early due to the hangover from hell and an upset tummy, but the train journey home took 6.5 hours! Track work, apparently.

Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Would infinitely rather have been there than visiting my mother.

Deep sigh.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It's a shame you couldn't make it. :(

I missed seeing you and Gloria1 and did wonder where you were.

[gloria1.livejournal.com]

More a time constraint for me, than money (for once!). Heh hoh, maybe next year. Glad everyone seemed to enjoy it!

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

You got home, yay! So did I, eventually - there was madness and badness in the airport, and a stern policeman had to come and give us all a talking-to . . .

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hoorah! That sounds like fun... I hope you didn't get into too much trouble.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

The madness started when an airport official leapt out and surveyed lasultrix on her activities and travel patterns as she was the twentieth person through the door. "What was the convention about?" "Fanfiction!" "Er, what's that?" It was at that point that I began to give silent thanks that I hadn't been the person surveyed, as I could feel the words "gay porn" bubbling up inside me . . .

The badness was a large set of drunken twits larking round and doing stuff like pretending to be drunker than they were, then miming weeing in corners. Charming. The unfortunate airline people were feeling harrassed, and the policeman was very stern, and expounded at length on the shame everyone should be feeling on needing to be addressed like naughty children. lasultrix, paranoidkitten (another Dublin person I hadn't met before) and I looked on with self-righteous innocence. The plane was delayed an hour, oy vey! It was a real relief to get home and have a sleep :-)

[cephy.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Con Plague. Very dangerous. *nods knowingly* Hope it clears up quickly!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It was indeed con plague! *coughhack*

It seems to be going now though. Thanks:)