so far, i'm giggly and alone.

sad me.

but i'm at wiscon! right now. i am sitting in the hallway, where there are four computers, and typing along here. behind me, in the capitol ballrooms, the goh speeches are going on. i heard a little bit of carol emshwiller's speech, and a little bit of china mieville's, and now i think they are on to the tiptree awards portion of the night, where john kessel is going to get his award.

(dear mr. brin. this year, not one, but twooooooooo males won a tiptree. thank you.)

i have crochetted my way through my first skein of yarn on the current baby blanket, and have started the second. i had a small amount of time there where no one i knew was breeding, but boom! here everyone goes. this one, i hope, will be for my pseudocousin's kid. (she's a second cousin once removed or some damn thing. i do not understand the geneological intricacies.)

many people who i was hoping would be here are here. i met ann b and recognized her right off and then confused her for quite a while while i was trying to stumble upon the set of words that would remind her of where she knew me from, and then got to meet kathryn b as well. piglet is here, with the basket that i most recently saw a picture of karma in, and stef and kyubi are here, as is the fabulous lisa c. heather blair is not here, and it makes me sad. (heather! we miss you!)

later tonight there will be the livejournal party. last night was elise's haiku earrings party, the club vampire party, and the tor party. overflowing party goodness. club vampire got dj bloodlossgirl in to dj, and i liked it a lot. she had some electrical issues where the music kept cutting out, but i asked to be emailed the set list, so that i can go buy some cd's. (she played an utterly creepy goth version of "eleanor rigby". yum.)

friday night, davey and sigrid and i retreated back to the room and stayed in and talked, sig and i not having seen davey much recently. that was good, but i was sad to have missed the carl brandon society dance, which ian h was dj'ing part of.

i am having a good weekend, even though i'm a little mopey. mope mope mope. but sig is feeding me chocolate chip cookies and sushi (oh! quick madison restaurant review: ton ton. good sushi. i had the dragon baby roll and loved it. the other sushi was also good. everything but the sushi took for ever and ever and ever. we waited an hour for the entree we ordered. oh the slowness. the end.) and being nice to me, and everyone here who i don't see very often is happy to see me, which is a very happymaking thing.

soon they will announce who the goh's will be for next year. i will be here next year, and am registered for it already. (unlike this year, where i had to register at the door. but wiscon, because they are sooooooo smart, prints up badges for concom and program participants whether or not they were smart enough to prereg. so i have my little badge that says "betsy lundsten cc" because i am concom.)

i volunteered in the artshow, which was good practice for convergence, and also a lot of fun. i think that i successfully bid on two pieces (although i had to armwrestle a certain beth for one of them and if i got it it was only because she had to leave for dinner before bidding closed) and i will find out in the morning.

there are people wandering around in the hallway dressed for parties, waiting for the ceremonies to be over (since nearly everyone is in them) so that there will be more than six people at the parties. i mean six people total, not per party.