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[simont]

So, that was Eastercon.

Clare had told me in advance that one of the great things about a sci-fi convention was the huge number of like-minded people who you could randomly go and talk to and get on well with. So on Friday I tried this, but largely got funny looks; either she didn't mean ‘randomly go and talk to’ literally, or she does better than me through being female.

Despite this, it was still a good weekend; most of the time something was on which I found well worth going to, and the occasional sessions containing nothing that caught my eye tended to be well timed for the moments when I needed a rest or some food. So I've really enjoyed the weekend, even if it failed to be the solution to my perennial don't-meet-enough-new-people problem that I'd hoped it might be.

I boggle, however, at anyone who can leave work on Thursday, go to an Eastercon, and go straight back to work the next Tuesday without missing a beat. I'm very glad I scheduled most of my two-week holiday to fall after Easter, since I expect to take several days of resting just to recover from the sheer hecticness! :-)

Comments

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Ooh, didn't know you were going. I don't especially like Hinckley.

> she does better than me through being female

How does that work?

Being female

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

FWIW I have tried posting questions to newsgroups giving a male name in the From: and giving a female name, and the female tended to get much more help.

Re: Being female

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

That's because the internet is full of sad lonely men I've never noticed any benfit in being female.