Albacon #2
Panels Attended:
Science Fiction Writing for the Technologically and Scientifically Illiterate
Non-Traditional Fantasy Settings
How to Write About Something You Know Nothing About
We Are the Orcs!
Behind the Scenes
Is (As It Used To Be) the Short Story the Idea Cauldron for Novels?
Other Stuff Attended:
Peter David’s Signing
Peter David’s Presentation/Reading
Script-reading of “Guardians”
Screening of “Wolf Eyes”
Things Discovered:
There’s a gaming room
There’s anime being shown in the film room – though when I stopped by it was a Japanese movie of some sort, not animated.
More Hotel Free Stuff:
Nothing new, except they replaced some of the stuff we used/took. We forgot to empty the bathroom of stuff before they cleaned. And we check out tomorrow. Wah. :) Randomly, they left an extra bottle of lotion, yet took the only partially used bottle of shampoo.
Other Freebies:
Cookies!
Potato Chips! (someone needs to invent a half exclamation point. That didn’t rate a full one.)
Tshirt (ha ha!)
Promotional bookmarks
Stuff Bought in Dealer’s Room:
8 1$ used books – donations to go to the Star Toys Museum, if I’ve got the name right. In Maryland.
10 3$ used books, because if you bought 10 then it was only 2$ a book.
1 5$ used book
2 of those books are Dad’s. The rest are mine. Because I am addicted.
Random Stuff:
Apparently there’s chibi pageant girls running around the hotel. Dad said he saw some. I only saw the flyers on their table. That’s just one event out of many going on here concurrently.
I saw a Wookiee. Life-size. I took a pic, but I don’t expect it’s a very good one.
Food Consumed:
Friday – A cheese sub from Subway. I even got adventurous and asked for honey mustard on 1/4 of it. I never did figure out which quarter it was on. So I guess I didn’t dislike it. Next time I’ll be even more adventurous and not have plain Italian bread. Also half a small bag of sour cream and onion potato chips. And ice cream at the ice cream social. I think that was it.
Saturday – Egg and cheese bagel from Dunkin’ Donuts. Vegetable lo mein and white rice. 2 donuts. 1 cookie. Some potato chips.
Sleep Acquired:
Friday Night – Between 4 and 5 hours, I think
Saturday Evening – Roughly half hour nap
Once I get more of a chance to sit down and look up websites, I’ll provide author and website links and things. Though surprisingly not too many websites have been mentioned, and I think only one by URL. The rest are sort of left up to you to Google.
K Said,
October 8, 2006 @ 2:18 am
Sorry, but honey mustard is about as adventurous as ketchup. :)