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DragonCon, day 1
Sep. 3rd, 2005 11:29 amI spent Thursday evening doing some quick straightening of the house, having offered Sasha (friend from RRA-L, the Bujold list, and the Friends of Liad list) bed-space for Friday night. Sasha noticed that DragonCon was between her house in Tennessee and the cat show she's headed to on Saturday, so decided to attend on Friday.
Friday morning Sasha arrived a little after 10, we got her cat settled in my laundry room out of scent range from my cats, and we headed to MARTA to go downtown. Got ourselves registered with minimal hassles (apparently registration was vastly improved over the last few years), and headed to the Peachtree Center food court for lunch. We promptly ran into Dawn, another Bujold fan and president of the Atlanta SF Society, chatted a while, then split up to get food. When I emerged with my sandwich, Sasha had ended up sharing a table with Josepha Sherman, so we all had a nice chat over lunch.
( Dealers' Room )
( Signing and FoL dinner )
After dinner Sasha and I headed to the Hyatt to look at the evening options, but ended up doing mostly people/costume watching. I dragged her to the Tom Smith filk concert at 9, then we mutually agreed we were wiped and headed to MARTA. Got home, consoled our cats (keeping them separated), and gabbed for more than an hour before finally getting to bed. Sasha left this morning at 5:30 AM for the cat show in S.C., and somehow my plans to be downtown for the DC parade at 10 didn't come to pass. (Was still drinking coffee at 10...)
I'm headed down shortly with a few programming items I want to hit (including another by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rolanni and kinzel), and will try to brave both the Dealer's Room and the Exhibitor's Room for possible purchases of items spotted yesterday. I'm planning to stay for at least some of hte FoL room party this evening--if my energy and crowd-tolerance holds out that long.
Friday morning Sasha arrived a little after 10, we got her cat settled in my laundry room out of scent range from my cats, and we headed to MARTA to go downtown. Got ourselves registered with minimal hassles (apparently registration was vastly improved over the last few years), and headed to the Peachtree Center food court for lunch. We promptly ran into Dawn, another Bujold fan and president of the Atlanta SF Society, chatted a while, then split up to get food. When I emerged with my sandwich, Sasha had ended up sharing a table with Josepha Sherman, so we all had a nice chat over lunch.
( Dealers' Room )
( Signing and FoL dinner )
After dinner Sasha and I headed to the Hyatt to look at the evening options, but ended up doing mostly people/costume watching. I dragged her to the Tom Smith filk concert at 9, then we mutually agreed we were wiped and headed to MARTA. Got home, consoled our cats (keeping them separated), and gabbed for more than an hour before finally getting to bed. Sasha left this morning at 5:30 AM for the cat show in S.C., and somehow my plans to be downtown for the DC parade at 10 didn't come to pass. (Was still drinking coffee at 10...)
I'm headed down shortly with a few programming items I want to hit (including another by
rolanni and kinzel), and will try to brave both the Dealer's Room and the Exhibitor's Room for possible purchases of items spotted yesterday. I'm planning to stay for at least some of hte FoL room party this evening--if my energy and crowd-tolerance holds out that long.