Arctic Light

After all my airport-related woes, I finally got to the hotel at 3 a.m. Saturday morning. But aside from missing the first day of the con (and also sleeping through the first round of panels this morning; oops), it's been awesome. I've never done a con like this one before; all the previous conventions I'd gone to were comic conventions, usually taking place in various non-hotel venues, and I was generally stuck behind a table all day. This is the first time I've done the whole panel and con-suite party thing, and I am totally having a blast. I cannot praise the organizers too highly -- they're taking fantastic care of us, and they've been feeding us very well with homemade food and snacks of both the healthy and non-healthy variety. I've met lots of LJ people; I'm sitting here in a hotel room with sgatazmy and astridv right now (all of us on our respective laptops). greyias already had to leave for her flight; I've also met ladycat777, cathexys, michelel72, donutsweeper and a metric ton of other people I don't know very well but whose LJ handles are generally familiar from having seen them around SGA fandom or metafandom. (I know I'm probably spacing on various people I should mention here, so just assume that I've got post-convention brain and I really enjoyed meeting all of you!)

Best of all, I really enjoyed all of the panels and workshops that I attended, and came away with my creativity in overdrive and tons of ideas for things to write about. The future of SGA fandom was discussed at one panel, now that it's a closed canon, and I want to think more about this and type up my meta-ish thoughts on the survival/success of the fandom and ways that we can keep it healthy. Despite everything, and my own negativity of the past few (pre-Writercon) days, I still consider SGA "my" fandom and I'd like to do my part to help keep up a high level of reader/writer involvement even without new canon.

Am, however, making a mental note for when I'm at Wizard World next weekend: I can apparently no longer stay up 'til 3 a.m. drinking and be fine in the morning, like I could when I was 22. Who knew?

It's still horribly smoky at home and it's going to be 85 to 90 degrees all week, which I do not miss. On the other hand, Oklahoma, where I shall be tomorrow, is apparently 100 degrees and humid. oh dear god kill me now please. *cries*