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Wow. What a weekend.
It started off on a bit of a low note - I thought I was getting together with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zenten Friday night, but I never heard from him. (What happened to you?)
Saturday,angriestangel, who is visiting from Holland, called just as I was finishing up in the shower. Naked and dripping, I ran to the phone. I suggested that we get together at 3, but he and his sister were going to the CN Tower, so we ended up meeting at 6 at their hotel downtown. He looks just like the photos in the picture threads at TrekBBS - I recognized him immediately. (Though I suspect he'd shaved, as he's usually pretty scruffy in his photos. ;) ) Unfortunately, rosemary_ca and kosst_amojan weren't able to join us. We walked up to Toby's, a pub at Yonge and Bloor, where we had dinner. Photos were taken - I'm sure he'll post them when he gets a chance. Unfortunately, I had to go out to Mississauga for SaraLynCon in the evening. (I say "unfortunately" not because I didn't want to go, but because both events had to be crammed into one evening and so I felt like I was short-changing everyone.) scifi_sara and magneticcheeks are both leaving us for a while, so a going-away pubnight had been planned. I managed to get out there fairly quickly - it helped that the Mississauga bus (the #3) arrived about two minutes after I got to Islington subway station, and there was no traffic, and the driver knew exactly where I wanted to go and so was able to attract my attention to tell me it was my stop. All in all, it only took me about 50-60 minutes to get there. Yay for no traffic and helpful bus drivers!
Afterwards, I was staying over atgurudata's and kanecool's place to facilitate my getting to the TT20 committee meeting on time this afternoon. We watched some TV for a bit (Game Show Network rocks), then kanecool went to bed around 2ish, I think, and gurudata and I stayed up until 4 watching 1950s episodes of "Beat The Clock" and "What's My Line?" (Gypsy Rose Lee was the mystery guest).
gurudata roused me around 11ish, and we headed for the hotel once aion117 showed up, arriving in plenty of time for me to go across the street for coffee and a bagel from Tim Horton's. The meeting went well - ozreison and travellingone stepped up to take on the job of editing TCON News (our irregularly-produced newsletter - it's published whenever we have news), and some of our new additions got right into the spirit of things. Like ozreison, however, I found it very odd not to be part of the Programming Department huddle during the working break. Seeing the team gathered together without me being part of it left me feeling a little wistful. Fortunately, though, others kept me busy as there always seems to be a long line of people who want to talk to the Chairs. Our new folks seemed to find the meeting interesting, and some of them even joined us for dinner afterwards. For some reason, though - it might have been that I hadn't taken a Lactaid when I had my bagel, and the smidge of butter might have upset my stomach - I was feeling really bloated and could barely finish my dinner. It was good, though - butternut squash soup and penne with sausage. A couple of the desserts sounded interesting, but my stomach was rebelling. I'm also a little sore from the huge load of stuff I had been carrying with me to take to this afternoon's meeting (I had a backpack and a briefcase with me, as I had Registration stuff and a bunch of badges, programme books, pocket programmes and restaurant guides from other cons which the head of our Art Department had requested, plus my concom binder, my change of clothing and my toiletries kit) - I figure I probably stressed my back from all the weight. Well, that and trying to keep up with p_j_k on the dance floor at SaraLynCon; the boy bounces like Tigger on the dance floor, and I - well, I can't do that anymore. It was fun trying, though...
I got home right at 9, and watched "Family Guy" and "American Dad". It was only afterwards that I realized that as a result of these choices, I had missed "Desperate Housewives." Crap. Everything good is on at the same time. I vegged on the couch for a while afterwards, watched "The Client" (on APTV, of all places - Aboriginal People's Television) and basically relaxed. I should probably have gone to bed a couple of hours ago, but not having been online all day yesterday, I figured I'd have some catching up to do. I was right, though it could have been a lot worse.
Off to bed now... I think. I should. I ought.
It started off on a bit of a low note - I thought I was getting together with
zenten Friday night, but I never heard from him. (What happened to you?)Saturday,
angriestangel, who is visiting from Holland, called just as I was finishing up in the shower. Naked and dripping, I ran to the phone. I suggested that we get together at 3, but he and his sister were going to the CN Tower, so we ended up meeting at 6 at their hotel downtown. He looks just like the photos in the picture threads at TrekBBS - I recognized him immediately. (Though I suspect he'd shaved, as he's usually pretty scruffy in his photos. ;) ) Unfortunately, rosemary_ca and kosst_amojan weren't able to join us. We walked up to Toby's, a pub at Yonge and Bloor, where we had dinner. Photos were taken - I'm sure he'll post them when he gets a chance. Unfortunately, I had to go out to Mississauga for SaraLynCon in the evening. (I say "unfortunately" not because I didn't want to go, but because both events had to be crammed into one evening and so I felt like I was short-changing everyone.) scifi_sara and magneticcheeks are both leaving us for a while, so a going-away pubnight had been planned. I managed to get out there fairly quickly - it helped that the Mississauga bus (the #3) arrived about two minutes after I got to Islington subway station, and there was no traffic, and the driver knew exactly where I wanted to go and so was able to attract my attention to tell me it was my stop. All in all, it only took me about 50-60 minutes to get there. Yay for no traffic and helpful bus drivers!Afterwards, I was staying over at
gurudata's and kanecool's place to facilitate my getting to the TT20 committee meeting on time this afternoon. We watched some TV for a bit (Game Show Network rocks), then kanecool went to bed around 2ish, I think, and gurudata and I stayed up until 4 watching 1950s episodes of "Beat The Clock" and "What's My Line?" (Gypsy Rose Lee was the mystery guest).gurudata roused me around 11ish, and we headed for the hotel once aion117 showed up, arriving in plenty of time for me to go across the street for coffee and a bagel from Tim Horton's. The meeting went well - ozreison and travellingone stepped up to take on the job of editing TCON News (our irregularly-produced newsletter - it's published whenever we have news), and some of our new additions got right into the spirit of things. Like ozreison, however, I found it very odd not to be part of the Programming Department huddle during the working break. Seeing the team gathered together without me being part of it left me feeling a little wistful. Fortunately, though, others kept me busy as there always seems to be a long line of people who want to talk to the Chairs. Our new folks seemed to find the meeting interesting, and some of them even joined us for dinner afterwards. For some reason, though - it might have been that I hadn't taken a Lactaid when I had my bagel, and the smidge of butter might have upset my stomach - I was feeling really bloated and could barely finish my dinner. It was good, though - butternut squash soup and penne with sausage. A couple of the desserts sounded interesting, but my stomach was rebelling. I'm also a little sore from the huge load of stuff I had been carrying with me to take to this afternoon's meeting (I had a backpack and a briefcase with me, as I had Registration stuff and a bunch of badges, programme books, pocket programmes and restaurant guides from other cons which the head of our Art Department had requested, plus my concom binder, my change of clothing and my toiletries kit) - I figure I probably stressed my back from all the weight. Well, that and trying to keep up with p_j_k on the dance floor at SaraLynCon; the boy bounces like Tigger on the dance floor, and I - well, I can't do that anymore. It was fun trying, though...I got home right at 9, and watched "Family Guy" and "American Dad". It was only afterwards that I realized that as a result of these choices, I had missed "Desperate Housewives." Crap. Everything good is on at the same time. I vegged on the couch for a while afterwards, watched "The Client" (on APTV, of all places - Aboriginal People's Television) and basically relaxed. I should probably have gone to bed a couple of hours ago, but not having been online all day yesterday, I figured I'd have some catching up to do. I was right, though it could have been a lot worse.
Off to bed now... I think. I should. I ought.
