Spent the weekend at FOGcon, as planned. It went fairly well.<\/p>\n
Friday afternoon, I took a half-day off and headed up to Walnut Creek; wandered briefly into the panel Mary Anne was on, had brief chats and hugs with a couple people. Spent the evening hanging out with Mary Anne and, for part of it, a few other folks. Had a phone call with my brother.<\/p>\n
Saturday I took it easy. Spent the morning on my own in the hotel room; had lunch in the hotel; played Forbidden Desert with Mary Anne and Alex (we lost); went for a walk with Mary Anne; spent a while working on fiction in the lobby, a couple tables away from where half a dozen writers had set up shop with their laptops. Went to about twenty minutes of a writing-the-other panel, then Mary Anne and I headed over to Oakland for dinner with David and Meredith and Miriam. Stopped by Kam's place afterward for a bit, then back to Walnut Creek. Played Slash in the lobby for a couple of hours with half a dozen other people; much fun.<\/p>\n
Sunday morning, I led a writing-workshop session, which I think went pretty well overall. Then Mary Anne and I left the con, and had lunch with Nilofer en route to SFO.<\/p>\n
My emotional state over the course of the weekend was mixed. It was really really good to see Mary Anne. I find touch immensely reassuring; getting to hold hands with her helped a lot. I thought some about my father. Mostly I just tried to keep things low-key and relaxed; I barely attended any of the con, steered clear of the Contention panel even though I found it entertaining the time I went (a couple years ago), stepped down from the panel I'd been assigned to, avoided arguing with people online.<\/p>\n
I didn't see many people at the con, and most of the people I did see were only briefly in passing; sorry to any of you I didn't run into or didn't interact much with. I very much appreciated all the supportive notes and Facebook comments in response to yesterday's post about my father. I didn't manage to collect as many in-person hugs as might have been nice, possibly partly because a lot of the people I saw are people with whom I'm not sure whether I'm on hugging terms, but I did get some, and that was very nice too.<\/p>\n
Didn't get nearly enough sleep, but on the other hand I must have gotten more than the almost-none I thought I got, because I was fairly functional and awake for most of the weekend. After I got home, I napped for an hour or two. Sunday evening, watched an episode of Outlander<\/cite> followed by rewatching the 1949 Hepburn\/Tracy movie Adam's Rib<\/cite>. (About which I have mixed feelings, too much so to go into right now.) A bunch of newly digitized photos arrived, so I spent a while attaching names to faces, which is mostly soothing and fun except for various annoying iPhoto UI issues. I had intended to try to get a bunch of other stuff done on Sunday, including some time-sensitive day-job stuff, but it didn't happen.<\/p>\n Oh, and it's unclear as yet whether I caught Mary Anne's cold—I've had a little bit of coughing but hoping that was just dust or something. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n Anyway, all in all, the weekend went pretty well.<\/p>\n Thank you to everyone who made FOGcon happen! Even though I didn't really do much con stuff, I was glad it was there.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spent the weekend at FOGcon, as planned. It went fairly well. Friday afternoon, I took a half-day off and headed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}