purplecthulhu

Wow - what a (long) weekend!

Loads of people I know have now got Hugos! I even got to fondle one or two of them - they're rather nice! Well done to autopope, fjm, chilperic, bohemiancoast, frostfox, drplokta and all the others who are not on LJ, or whose LJs I've forgotten.

The con went very well - much kudos to the organisers and all who worked on it. The science programme, which is what I mainly contibuted to, seemed to go very well. major_clanger deserves much congratulation for this! The highlight for me was Dave Southwood (head of science at ESA)'s talk on Saturday which ranged from autobiography, Dan Dare, to Titan and Huygens, to Vonneghut and literary criticism. I've known DS for some time, but he's clearly kept some hidden depths! And he and his wife seem to have enjoyed themselves a great deal, and might come to future conventions if invited! Maybe we're about to become respectable!

My own big talk on Thursday went well, as did all the other items I was on. I learned a lot on some of those items as well!

One thing that really impressed me was that this was the first con I've worked on where people came up to me, unprompted, and thanked me for talks and panels, and for helping to get DS to the con. Wow!

About the only thing that could have made it better would be for purpletigron and purplejavatroll to have been there.

But now the reaction settles in. Its back to Mundania tomorrow. The way back was eased very pleasently by neeting the_magician, greengolux and our antipodean visitor zarabee who we're trying to seduce to Eastercon next year. But eventually Euston was reached, and it was time to go home.

Work seems very unattractive by comparison.

Normal service to be resumed once my bounce is back.

[Edited to correct some wrong LJ names]