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I've spent the last couple of days being gloomy and glooming all over my friends' comment pages due to Comicon con reports on the SGU panel. Unlike most of the rest of fandom, I wasn't especially upset about the cancellation (when it was first announced, anyhow) and was curious about the new show. On the other hand, every bit of PR and casting info that's trickled out of Bridge Studios over the last year has made me want to see it less, and the Comicon interviews with Brad Wright were really the icing on the cake of DO NOT WANT: at this point, I pretty much want nothing to do with anything that has Brad Wright's name on it, including SGA. It's like an awesome case study in how to take an enthusiastic fanbase and turn them against you.

( More nattering about show cancellations )

(Also, I'm still sad about missing the Being Human panel at Comicon. I wish I'd known they were going in time enough to make plans -- despite the fact that it would have thrown a major wrench in the rest of my plans for the summer, I might have found a way to go! When else could I possibly have a chance to see them?)

But I'm currently packing for Writercon and I'm awfully excited about that. Though it's been kind of tricky to explain to my RL friends and family (who don't know about my fannish activities) just where exactly I'm going. "A science fiction writer's convention" seems to be the explanation that satisfies most of them, since they know that I write, just not that I write fanfic too.

greyias, sgatazmy and I will be running a panel on h/c at Writercon -- Saturday from 2-3:30. Come by if you're around!

I'll be traveling until the 14th of August -- I'm sure I'll have intermittent Internet access at hotels and such, but I probably won't be around much. (Not that this is too different from the current situation.)

Edit: Oh crappity, I totally forgot to go vote in the Stargate Fan Awards! Though looking at the website, I see they've extended voting 'til Aug. 15. That'll help ...

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I've spent the last couple of days being gloomy and glooming all over my friends' comment pages due to Comicon con reports on the SGU panel. Unlike most of the rest of fandom, I wasn't especially upset about the cancellation (when it was first announced, anyhow) and was curious about the new show. On the other hand, every bit of PR and casting info that's trickled out of Bridge Studios over the last year has made me want to see it less, and the Comicon interviews with Brad Wright were really the icing on the cake of DO NOT WANT: at this point, I pretty much want nothing to do with anything that has Brad Wright's name on it, including SGA. It's like an awesome case study in how to take an enthusiastic fanbase and turn them against you.

( More nattering about show cancellations )

(Also, I'm still sad about missing the Being Human panel at Comicon. I wish I'd known they were going in time enough to make plans -- despite the fact that it would have thrown a major wrench in the rest of my plans for the summer, I might have found a way to go! When else could I possibly have a chance to see them?)

But I'm currently packing for Writercon and I'm awfully excited about that. Though it's been kind of tricky to explain to my RL friends and family (who don't know about my fannish activities) just where exactly I'm going. "A science fiction writer's convention" seems to be the explanation that satisfies most of them, since they know that I write, just not that I write fanfic too.

greyias, sgatazmy and I will be running a panel on h/c at Writercon -- Saturday from 2-3:30. Come by if you're around!

I'll be traveling until the 14th of August -- I'm sure I'll have intermittent Internet access at hotels and such, but I probably won't be around much. (Not that this is too different from the current situation.)

Edit: Oh crappity, I totally forgot to go vote in the Stargate Fan Awards! Though looking at the website, I see they've extended voting 'til Aug. 15. That'll help ...

Trapped! At the airport!

I am here but I have no plane. :( (But I do have free airport wireless -- albeit very flaky free wireless. Maybe it's got something to do with this big metal pillar next to me, but it's a big metal pillar with power outlets in it ...)

My incoming flight has been diverted to Anchorage because the wildfire smoke is too dense for it to land. It's like incredibly thick fog ... you can't even see across the runway, though I had no idea that it'd be bad enough to affect a jet. So here I am, hangin' out at the airport. This means I'm definitely not going to get into Minneapolis as early in the morning as I'd hoped -- the very best case scenario is that my flight will only be an hour or two late; the worst-case scenario would be that they cancel it completely tonight and wait to see if the smoke clears by morning.

*taps foot*

Edit: But I'm learning things! :D An Alaska Airlines flight just landed, so the poor beleaguered Northwest guy (I'm starting to feel sorry for him; he's really young-looking and having to deal with a bunch of stranded passengers) came on the intercom and explained why it was able to land when our jet can't. Apparently Alaska Airlines has top-of-the-line HUDs in its planes ("like in a fighter jet", he said) so that they can fly into Alaska's foggy coast cities and deal with our short and somewhat uncertain runways. Apparently they can land with only 3/4 mile of visibility, while the NWA jet needs 3 miles -- right now we're at about a mile and a half.

*waits*

Trapped! At the airport!

I am here but I have no plane. :( (But I do have free airport wireless -- albeit very flaky free wireless. Maybe it's got something to do with this big metal pillar next to me, but it's a big metal pillar with power outlets in it ...)

My incoming flight has been diverted to Anchorage because the wildfire smoke is too dense for it to land. It's like incredibly thick fog ... you can't even see across the runway, though I had no idea that it'd be bad enough to affect a jet. So here I am, hangin' out at the airport. This means I'm definitely not going to get into Minneapolis as early in the morning as I'd hoped -- the very best case scenario is that my flight will only be an hour or two late; the worst-case scenario would be that they cancel it completely tonight and wait to see if the smoke clears by morning.

*taps foot*

Edit: But I'm learning things! :D An Alaska Airlines flight just landed, so the poor beleaguered Northwest guy (I'm starting to feel sorry for him; he's really young-looking and having to deal with a bunch of stranded passengers) came on the intercom and explained why it was able to land when our jet can't. Apparently Alaska Airlines has top-of-the-line HUDs in its planes ("like in a fighter jet", he said) so that they can fly into Alaska's foggy coast cities and deal with our short and somewhat uncertain runways. Apparently they can land with only 3/4 mile of visibility, while the NWA jet needs 3 miles -- right now we're at about a mile and a half.

*waits*

NOT HAVING FUN NOW

oookay ... now my flight is cancelled until 12 p.m. tomorrow. NOT HAVING FUN. *wails*

Well, I guess I'll miss the first day of the con ... and all of my contact info and everything that I suddenly need to contact the con people and see if I can still register after missing the first day ... is on my desktop computer at home! Where I will hopefully be soon, except that *I* have the family cell and I think my husband is outside doing yardwork (in the smoke ...?) because he's not answering the phone.

*sulks*

NOT HAVING FUN NOW

oookay ... now my flight is cancelled until 12 p.m. tomorrow. NOT HAVING FUN. *wails*

Well, I guess I'll miss the first day of the con ... and all of my contact info and everything that I suddenly need to contact the con people and see if I can still register after missing the first day ... is on my desktop computer at home! Where I will hopefully be soon, except that *I* have the family cell and I think my husband is outside doing yardwork (in the smoke ...?) because he's not answering the phone.

*sulks*