Continuum!

[changeling]

This past weekend was Continuum. It was an amazing event - far better than I had hoped. It was less like a con and more like a party of four hundred people - that was my impression. Steph, Jess and I made new friends (one a little too enamoured of Jess, alas, and she did not return his affection) and generally had a good time. The panels were interesting, though the Maskobalo a little disappointing - terrible music.

The house is a bit of a bombsite, though, due to extreme last-minute stress over Maskobalo costumes, and general not-being-here this weekend. We did a little bit of a cleanup on Sunday morning at least.

Must dash, as am potentially late for Novel class, and was late last week as well. I shall endeavour to update with more information, and notes on the two guests who interested me most (Poppy Z. Brite & Neil Gaiman).

Our house (S & I) have not yet got a copy of Half-Blood Prince due to the fact that we are both terrifically poor. In fact, I discovered yesterday that I don't have enough to fill my car with petrol, and as I shan't get paid for at least two weeks, this is something of a distressing incident for Yours Truly. I hope I have enough to buy another 5-day ticket for next week. S, however, gets paid this Wednesday, so hopefully I may be allowed to read her copy some time before this weekend. In the meantime, I must steer clear of all the spoilers I can. Sigh.

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[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

[In the meantime, I must steer clear of all the spoilers I can. ]

Stupid thank you for being polite about it.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but it really wasn't meant to be a frothy-mouthed ZOMG CUT ALL SPOILERS!111 type thing. Perhaps I'm just optimistic? *grins* Anyway, what with being stuck on dial-up, I'm only online every other day. Miss catching up with people. How are you?

[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

That's what I meant. :) You were nice and didn't make me feel like buying the book and spoiling it just for spite. ;) people are making me cranky. people are making each other cranky. i bet it's star-related.

I'm good! Just had my wisdom teeth out, but I'm recovering nicely. Life is good for you?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Aha, fair enough.

That's good! No chipmunk-cheeks then? I'm not too bad. Have started back at school, have an excellent work placement (if only I could induce them to keep me on ...), and am actually working on my novel. Had a brilliant time at Continuum & had Neil Gaiman shake my hand, and the stress of costume-making for that is over. I have an excellent girlfriend & I'm eating well. Now if only we could get some submissions for our 'zine, life would be damn near perfect. :D

Oh, and more money, or work that actually gives me shifts. That'd be good, too. We can't afford more olive oil until Steph gets paid next.

[sylvertongue.livejournal.com]

Poppy Z. Brite? Huh. Interested to hear about her - she's one of those authors I rather idolise for her style and language use. Also her textual slash, but that's an aside.

Good luck avoiding spoilers. :/

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

She was nifty. Nice person. Can't wait to read her new stuff ...

Thanks. :/ I'll be doing it mostly by avoiding the Internet, I suspect.

[fin.livejournal.com]

If you want to avoid spoilers, avoid reading The Age... I inadvertantly read a HUGE spoiler, which was written upside-down, on the premise that this would be a sufficient spoiler-preventing method of publishing. On reading this particular spoiler, I have now lost much of my motivation for reading HBP. *sigh*

That, and JKR's awkward prose, which is forgiveable for a children's book, but not for a 600-page novel.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Good thing we're not getting the paper delivered, then.