Exhausted.

[lance_sibley]

Please excuse the short sentences. Fatigue does not lend itself well to proper grammar or use of prepositions and articles. (So I may sound like Inspector Sidney Wang in "Murder By Death".)

Went to Turkeycon last night. Ate turkey and chatted with many people, including (but probably not limited to - as I said, I'm exhausted) quarkwiz and her husband Peter (thank you again for inviting me), andromakie, angrykat, twiddler, moon_custafer, green_trilobite, Lloyd & Yvonne Penney, Rob Sawyer & Carolyn Clink, and a number of other LJ-less friends. Good company and good conversation. Got home around 1:15 and foolishly stayed up until 3:30 despite having to get up at 8:30 this morning to make sure of being at an 11am meeting out near the airport. Woke up around 5 and had trouble getting back to sleep.

I did make it to the 11am programming department meeting, but the restaurant we had chosen was packed. So packed that when I tried to put us on the waiting list for a table, they outright refused to serve us. So we schlepped over to the hotel and set up in the meeting room, since it wasn't being used. The meeting was adjourned around 12:30, so I went across the street to Tim Horton's for more caffeine. (Caffeine good.)

The meeting supposedly ended early, but to me, in my sleep-deprived state, it didn't really feel like it. Went for dinner afterwards with aprilsnark, gurudata, kanecool, ennisdl and Stephen C., and then rode the subway home with aprilsnark's company most of the way. Amused her greatly when I related something that had happened last night:

It's been said (and ridiculously so) that I know everyone in fandom. This started during the runup to Torcon 3 when I was recording secretary to the Board, and the president of the board would turn to me and say, "Lance, you know everyone in fandom. Can you contact [person x] for us?" And I would always answer, "Ken, I don't know where you got that idea. I don't know everyone in fandom. That's ludicrous. But as it happens, I do know [person x], and would be happy to contact them." This must have happened half a dozen times or more, and now it's become a running gag.

So last night, we were chatting about Worldcons, and Rob Sawyer asked who had won the bid for 2008. When Lloyd responded that Denver had won, I said, "I'm hoping to make it, because I have a friend there I wouldn't mind seeing." Rob turned, smacked me lightly on the shoulder, and said, "Yes, you do." I looked at him in surprise, wondering where this comment had come from... it turned out mishalak was his Guest Liaison when he was Author GoH at MileHiCon recently, and apparently my name had come up in conversation.

This, of course, does not serve to dissipate the rumour that I know everyone in fandom... sigh.

(And as it happens, mishalak, it was you I had been referring to with my initial comment, not knowing that you and Rob had met.)

In other fannish-related news, I may find myself entering a Masquerade for the first time since Shore Leave in 1987. thirdworld's suggestion from last week of putting together a "PC Guy" costume had been percolating in my mind, and something assetic said at today's meeting gave me the idea for a sketch that I'd been looking for. However, I shall say no more. We'll see if it actually happens.

Comments

[sciffy-circo.livejournal.com]

And if Chicago had won in 2008, you'd know somebody in Chicago too...

Dang, still can't believe we lost... by 12 votes. Dangit!

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I probably know more people in Chicago than I do in Denver, actually - certainly I know more people who worked on the bid.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I've heard rummors to the effect that not everyone connected with the bid voted. Do you know if that's true? I can confirm that some people now working for the 2008 Denver Worldcon to make it the best Worldcon possible actually voted for Chicago, despite living here.