travel Apparently I’m “blogging the con,” as they say

Posted August 24, 2006 • Comments Off on Apparently I’m “blogging the con,” as they say

So I just got back from what was one of the most fun things I’ve ever been to at a con, and certainly the most fun thing I’ve ever been to on a Wednesday at a con.

But first.

Because Jeff is coming Friday, I had decided to make this the first Worldcon where I actually attended and participated in programming. Went to panels and such. Didn’t just drink soda and use hotel broadband and enjoy the pool and read in the bar and go to the Masquerade and shop in the dealers’ room. Actually do stuff.

Last night I was too late to register so I familiarized myself with the hotel and ate and read in the restaurant and watched TV and did some work.

Today I got my registration stuff and shopped in the dealers’ room (There’s a necklace. It was expensive) and presupported both bids for 2008 and fished for freebies (free pen count so far: 3). These are my usual first-day activities. In the afternoon I ate takeout in my room from the Pizza Hut in the hotel and watched TV. I went to the panel I discussed earlier, where I spoke to Peter S. Beagle. At 5:30 I went to a very, very small charity auction (best item: a collection of Pirates of the Caribbean items available only to Disneyland cast members), then I ate dinner from room service (chicken caesar salad and Pizza Hut breadsticks), then I did some work. At 9:30 I went to an event in the film track called “Buffy Sing Along.”

This was fabulous.

Imagine, if you will, a smallish hotel ballroom, a DVD player and a projection screen, and the full, uncut version of “Once More, With Feeling,” subtitles on, and a hundred people singing along with every word. It was magically delicious. Without any planning or discussion at all, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, we split up the duets (dozens of men singing Xander’s part and dozens of women singing Anya’s, and so on), we sang the harmonies, we rocked it.

Definitely too good for a Wednesday. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if they do it again before the weekend is up.

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