Big Fun!
Next week (next week!), starting on Friday, I'll be volunteering at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. It's a good deal: 20 hours of work, I get access to workshops and whatnot for free, and I get to spend seven days in a hotel full of writer types. It. Will. Be. Good.
And, if that wasn't interesting enough: the day after the conference ends, I'll be heading up to San Mateo for Westercon, where I will spend four days in a hotel full of sci-fi geeks. That won't be free, but will also be good. (And yes, I have a costume: Simon Tam. He basically dresses like I do, anyway...all I needed was the vest and tie, which will be here Friday. I won't really be Simon, because I'm not going to shave or take the loops out of my ears. I'll be some other Core World scion, I think.) And before anyone gets all snide, I'm not going just so I can find a bunch of poly folk and attempt to get my freak on. My freak is over there in the box with the big DO NOT OPEN 'TILL HEAT DEATH OF UNIVERSE label on it. I'm going because I haven't been to a con of any sort in well over 15 years and I'm due.
So: I am essentially going to spend eleven straight days in the company of a whole bunch of brand new people who are all obsessed with many of the same things I am.
W00t, I say. W00t. Now, you must excuse me: I am a mere two discs into the 40-DVD set of the complete Buffy.
