Jules Jones

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.

Long con report under the cut.

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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...

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.)