So that was Worldcon
Aug. 17th, 2005 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhionnachIt's now over a week since the end of Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention. I had a really good time at this convention, the best out of the four Worldcons I have been to, but then I didn't have the slaphead ex with me who has a morbid fear of spaghetti. (Wonder whatever happened to him? It seems not even his long-time friend from school knows where he is, or even if he is still on this planet) While on the Info Desk I must have spoken to at least half the convention, which makes a change from when I was known as the silent one. Some formers members of the old Glasgow Monday Club actually came up to the Info Desk while I was there but I guess they didn't recognise me.
In reality I never left Glasgow as it was held at the SECC but it feels like I did! I had quite a long convention, starting on the Monday when I turned up to work at the MIMO (MoveIn Move Out) desk, helping with the move in and organising the top secret pizza runs on the Tuesday and Wednesday. The convention proper began on Thursday and went on until Monday. I was working on the Info Desk as well as running 2 programme items, "Paganism in Glasgow" and "Pagan Circles at Midnight". That last one was a puzzle as it suddenly appeared in the schedules and no one knew who had suggested it or where it had come from. But we went ahead with it and turned it into a ritual to honour our various gods. We had 25 at that and we'd had other Pagans at the other one so we were pretty well represented.
I didn't make many programme items, but I did manage to get to the ones I was taking part in, which was something. They were interesting, not least because when I sat down to write up some Pagan-related local history beforehand I realised just how much knowledge of the area I had accumulated.
I attended quite a few of the Friday and Saturday night parties in the Hilton but as we were running "Pagan Circles at Midnight" on Sunday at ..er...midnight we thought we ought not to go to any of the Sunday parties or else we wouldn't be at our own programme item.
The whole event seemed to go past too quickly and it's good to be able to read other people's LJ entries and see the photos to prove it really happened!
Unless, I win the lottery sometime in the next year I won't be able to get to LA for next year's Worldcon so I guess I'll have to wait until it comes back to our neck of the woods.
In reality I never left Glasgow as it was held at the SECC but it feels like I did! I had quite a long convention, starting on the Monday when I turned up to work at the MIMO (MoveIn Move Out) desk, helping with the move in and organising the top secret pizza runs on the Tuesday and Wednesday. The convention proper began on Thursday and went on until Monday. I was working on the Info Desk as well as running 2 programme items, "Paganism in Glasgow" and "Pagan Circles at Midnight". That last one was a puzzle as it suddenly appeared in the schedules and no one knew who had suggested it or where it had come from. But we went ahead with it and turned it into a ritual to honour our various gods. We had 25 at that and we'd had other Pagans at the other one so we were pretty well represented.
I didn't make many programme items, but I did manage to get to the ones I was taking part in, which was something. They were interesting, not least because when I sat down to write up some Pagan-related local history beforehand I realised just how much knowledge of the area I had accumulated.
I attended quite a few of the Friday and Saturday night parties in the Hilton but as we were running "Pagan Circles at Midnight" on Sunday at ..er...midnight we thought we ought not to go to any of the Sunday parties or else we wouldn't be at our own programme item.
The whole event seemed to go past too quickly and it's good to be able to read other people's LJ entries and see the photos to prove it really happened!
Unless, I win the lottery sometime in the next year I won't be able to get to LA for next year's Worldcon so I guess I'll have to wait until it comes back to our neck of the woods.
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Date: 2005-08-17 05:46 pm (UTC)I'm really looking forward to it.