Arctic Light

Whew! Back in Fairbanks, from 90-degree Chicago to yellow leaves and chilly nights. *shivers*

I really had a wonderful time at the con; I shared a lovely hotel suite with *takes deep breath* kristen999, wildcat88, coolbreeze1, titan5 and everybetty; I also got to meet (but not spend nearly enough time with) tepring, winter_elf, calcitrix, fawkesielady_ed, padfootthegrim, crysothemis, sky3428 (though I didn't know who she was at the time), nakedwesley, margec01, vecturist and probably others that I am forgetting right now (sorry!). Oh, right, and there were some actors too, I guess. XD

After snapping off a few hopelessly blurry shots, I gave up on taking pictures and just enjoyed the actor talks. I figured I was surrounded by people taking pictures with much better cameras than mine, so I'd just stalk their LJs link to them instead! It was really a ton of fun. I don't think that there was a single actor who wasn't funny, personable and entertaining, and they were all very kind and gracious in the autograph lines, too. JF and DH's talk was, of course, the highlight of the weekend for me (they were onstage together for 90 minutes, playfully bantering with each other the whole time -- bliss!) but I was also really looking forward to seeing Michael Shanks, because I was such a huge Daniel fangirl back in 2000-ish, and, er, the crush is still there, just a little bit, it seems. *fans self* He's incredibly professional and has an impressively encyclopedic memory for every role he's ever played! Robert Picardo was sweet and funny (and at one point, not at the main talk but at the cabaret on Friday evening, his wife was onstage with him -- and they are adorable); Dan Shea was a blast (and he has such great dirt on all of the others!); Chris Heyerdahl and Andee Frizzell were so much fun, together and separately. I only peeked in on the main SGU panel (though I watch the show, I'm really not enough of a fan to be interested in the actors) but they seemed friendly and fun, and looked like they got along well.

Other people's con write-ups and pictures:

winter_elf has lovely pictures, as always: Joe and David | Chris and Andee | Robert Picardo.
crysothemis has some pretty pictures of Joe and David.
buefo has a transcript of Michael's talk, with audio for download.
sky3428 has pictures of Joe and David.
wraithfodder compiled Twitters from both the actors and the fans at the con: part one and part two.

That's all that's come across my flist so far, I think ...

ETA:
margec01 has a great write-up of Joe and David's talk (1st half, 2nd to come later), plus a bit from when they first came onstage.

Okay, the less I enjoy the last couple months of my job, the more I've swung around to thinking very, very seriously about going to Writercon. Like, I'm pretty much in the "firming up plans and then buying tickets" stage. (If I haven't changed my mind in the next couple of days, and if I can make plans with a couple of Midwestern friends to meet up in the following week so that I'm not just turning around and flying right back to Alaska, I am *totally* doing it.)

So who all is going? I know greyias and sgatazmy ... and astridv maybe? Anyone else?