Back from Worldcon

[bunsen_h]

Home again.  I'm only beginning to catch up on sleep; the idiots doing construction near my house made a horrible crashy thump a bit before 7:30 this morning that my earplugs weren't enough to block.

It was a fun convention.

My concert went okay.  I had less voice control than I should have; I really need to do more singing to keep in shape.  The starting notes that I'd carefully worked out beforehand to make sure that everything was in a good range... didn't work at all.

My children's programming adventure, helping kids to make sock puppets, was mostly a waste of my time.  We almost always had more adults than children there, and I generally felt that I wasn't getting into things -- I didn't have any strong inclination to interact with these completely unknown-to-me kids.  My greatest contribution came when one child burned himself with a glue gun ("I know how to use a glue gun.  I'm from London, we're all about glue guns there.") and after I got tired of him running around and yelling about it, I decided that I was going to make an ice pack for him and repeatedly nagged the "panel moderator" until she okayed it.

I was too tired for my Saturday-evening open filk, and abdicated from my "moderator" position a bit after midnight.

Only half of the panelists showed up for the Sunday-morning "Realism in SF" panel.  We all agreed that though realism in SF was important, it was hard to define, and that the suggestion in the program-guide description (that SF had a "duty" to do realistic portrayals of things like global warming) was silly.  Once we got that out of the way, we had a good discussion.

The Monday-noon workshop on filk song writing went well enough despite everyone seeming to be running out of steam.

A few pictures:

Googly-eyed brownies for the Making Lumiere party

cadhla  giving safe shelter to a couple of baby plush giant squid

My Winslow-cultist plush giant squid

Someone else's picture of me with the squid and its hat

Comments

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

ChefCat said to me how great it would be to have a Winslow hat. I agreed, and said it would be awesome for winter. He looked at me blankly and said "What, winter? I would wear it as my chef hat." He is quite serious (just one of the many things I love about him).

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

Now that I've seen a picture of Winslow...what was already an incredible hat is even more so. My goodness, you've captured his bug-eyed gormlessness remarkably!

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that the "real" Winslow's eyes are flat, just felt circles -- or so I'm informed by the sister of the woman (former girlfriend of Phil Foglio) who put them on. The cartoon character is rather different from the toy he's based on -- you can just make out one of the eyes in the picture.