I survived WorldCon by not doing a lot of things I normally do\u00a0 (none of the evening\/night events or activities), but I made all my panels and managed a couple of dinners with friends.\u00a0\u00a0 Aside from that I went horizontal as much as possible.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It may or may not have fended off con crud (certainly people near me were sneezing and coughing, and I sometimes sneezed or coughed without feeling sick–the air was dry, then there were storms, then it was dry and windy.)\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting people met on the trains and also at the convention.\u00a0\u00a0 I fell madly for the nearest (fantastic!) grocery store, Consentino’s Market and wished for a fridge and a kitchenette.\u00a0 Wow, the meals I could’ve cooked.\u00a0 And eaten.\u00a0\u00a0 Amazing produce.\u00a0 Amazing cheese selection.\u00a0 Amazing bakery.\u00a0\u00a0 Amazing meats and seafood.\u00a0 AND they also had hot food and made custom sandwiches and, and, and…<\/p>\n
A good crowd at my signing and at my reading.\u00a0 Full table at the kaffeeklatsch.\u00a0\u00a0 Generally excellent panels.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Generally excellent co-panelists, etc.,\u00a0 and good folks all around.\u00a0\u00a0 Some lovely things in the Dealers’ Room, but I ended up with books, as usual, even though very tempted by hand-painted silk scarves.\u00a0 They just weren’t the right colors for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Larry Smith was in good form in his “book room” and sure enough…that’s where my money went.\u00a0 The KC convention center is HUGE and there was a lot of walking on hard floors, some of it at speed (some of us gave up on the green room’s allures early on because our panels were so far from it, that it was difficult to get there on time if we got to the green room at the time recommended.\u00a0 This is NOT a slam at the convention, which had to work with the rooms as they were.\u00a0\u00a0 Just a reality we dealt with.)\u00a0\u00a0 The one panel I moderated really didn’t need a moderator (thank you, kind panelists.)<\/p>\n
I was accosted after one panel by a woman who mistakenly thought I was an M.D., and told me all her reasons for anger with the medical profession in a taut, hostile voice, on and on and on (she did have a very unfortunate set of circumstances) and finally said “So YOU’RE a doctor…!” and when I said I wasn’t, she was sure I was, and I finally convinced her…and that took the wind out of her sails only briefly, because then she went on and on into other miseries of her life until finally I had to go…and seemed disappointed I couldn’t stay and let her vent more.\u00a0\u00a0 Sad.\u00a0\u00a0 Wish she’d say all that to the specific doctors she’s sure mishandled things.<\/p>\n
Feeling tired still, so that’s all the convention report here for now, except that there were Paks fans there, and some good questions about Paksworld stuff.<\/p>\n
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