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After a certain amount of fighting with PayPal, I have paid for my ticket to the UK GLBT Fiction Meet. This does not necessarily mean that I will be there, given the ongoing medical problems, but at least I've got a ticket now.
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Just bought my membership for Satellite 4, next year's Eastercon being held in Glasgow. This is not a guarantee that I'll be there, of course, but Kalypso_v and I are intending to travel up together for the weekend. For those intending to go who have not yet bought a membership, price goes up at the end of tomorrow.

Still need to make a final decision on the UK Meet, but that will have to wait until I've checked my diary for the many and varied medical appointments over the next few months.
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Somewhat annoyed, as I managed to leave the walking stick in the taxi, and a) it's not mine, b) I need it this weekend. So not very mobile. However, I have managed to hook the iThing to the hotel wifi, so am not cut off from the intarwebs as long as I sit in the foyer. Currently in the dance workshop checking in with Watervole, but about to move off in search of other friends.

con diary

Feb. 2nd, 2013 09:11 am
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Current con plans for this year:

Redemption -- arriving Friday, leaving Monday. No panels and not planning to do anything other than help out on tech if I'm up to it.

Eastercon -- not going. It's simply not feasible if I can't stay in the con hotel itself, because I can't manage the amount of walking/standing needed to use the overflow hotels.

UK Meet -- planning to go assuming I'm sure I'm available by last date for the discount weekend rate. But it's expensive by the standards of fan-run sf cons, so not buying a ticket until I'm sure I can go. (Yes, it's a ticket event, not a membership event.)

No particular plans further out. I expect I will once again fail to get to Novacon...

Closet con

Jun. 28th, 2010 08:24 pm
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Am thinking of going to Closet Con, although as usual I won't be sure until nearer the time. I know there are a couple of others on my flist, but anyone else thinking of going? 13-15 August in Leicester, it's a K/S con but there is, or at least was the last time I had the chance to go, a fair chunk of general slash conversation. (I suspect Watervole and I may bore people around us rigid by talking about future plans for writing slashy profic.)
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Family commitments mean that I will almost certainly not be able to make it to Eastercon 2010. This sucks, because a lot of my friends will be there, and because the Radisson is one of the few con hotels I have been to which gives me the feeling that I might actually get a reasonable night's sleep every night. I shall think about an appropriate regional/specialist con to go to instead, but I think that it will again have to be a matter of not making firm plans until very near the actual date. Which in turn means that one of the restrictions will be that I can either be sure of getting a room even if I leave it to the last minute, or can cancel the hotel reservation up until the last minute.

(I'm not releasing my Odyssey room booking and membership just yet -- the former because I need to be sure that my potential sharers have other arrangements, and the latter because even a supporting membership would now cost near what I originally paid for the full membership.)
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Something I was asked for in the m/m romance chat at Literary Nymphs yesterday -- copy-n-paste from my email this evening in reply:

Okay, as asked for yesterday by some of the UK crowd:

the UK slash con that is definitely running this year is Connotations,
Newcastle, England, October 3-5 2008
The website hasn't been updated, but they have an LJ:
http://community.livejournal.com/connotations/
I've never been to it because it started after I left the UK, but some of my friends have and seem to like it.

I have a vague memory of seeing something about another one being revived after some years in hiatus, but I need to track down the details, and they don't like being talked about in public anyway. (Ah -- they're on in July this year, in Leicester. Email me for the link.)

Redemption isn't a slash con, but it is slash-friendly and usually has some slash-orientated panels and workshops in the programme (including the ever popular "realism in slash" panel). Next one's 20-22 Feb 2009, in Coventry:
http://www.conventions.org.uk/redemption/index.html

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