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Wheee! Finally booked plane tickets for Writercon....

GIP! New Calvin and Hobbes icon from

jellobag. Isn't it cute?

Sooooo, lazy, I swear to God. I only just now bought my Boston-Atlanta-Boston roundtrip tix for

writercon.

Roundtrip for me was $297.60 ($282.60 for the roundtrip; $15 for travel insurance) aaaaand I got window seats both ways. Wa-hoooooo!

Sad but true, Priceline seemed to be the cheapest by $2 of all 10 sites I looked at. And is it me, or do all the online airline ticket sites go to either Expedia or Orbitz?

I'll be arriving fairly early Thursday afternoon (@ 1 p.m. in Atlanta), so who's gonna be around? I'm pretty sure I'll be jonesing for something foodish or coffeeish since I'm on a nonstop with cheap-o tickets.

Anyhoo...I'll be sharing a room with

ponders_life at the con hotel *waves to ponders* I think I might even be beating her in. I dunno.

So, who'll be going on my FList?

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I'm not going to Writer-Con, but Atlanta's five hours from my house and I have a *ton* of family up there, so I'm going to try to make it up to at least see some humans that weekend. I'd love to hang out with you again, if you didn't get enough of me to last you the rest of your life last summer. =)

Awwwwww. Never enough. :-)

Let me know when you'll be running about up in Atlanta. I have a 4 p.m. flight out of Atlanta back to Boston on Sunday and, like I said, I'll be in pretty early on Thursday. I think there's a casual meet-and-greet on Thursday night that's open to the public (cash bar, if I recall).

That's pretty much the price I paid (minus the travel insurance, do they offer that when you buy the tickets? I never saw it, but I bought from the airline's website directly rather than through Priceline/Orbitz/etc.) I'm getting in about an hour and a half after you are, around 2:30 I think.

Priceline was offered to me on the way to the electronic checkout. I debated back and forth the additional cost and decided that it would be worth it if, say, my lugage went missing.

Co0L!!!11! We'll meet up in person! Awesome! :-)

Probably very sensible. I hope the chances of luggage getting lost will be smaller with a direct flight, but you never know. I'm *so* looking forward to getting to meet you! :-)

I'm so looking forward to meeting you, too! Is it just you, or is the fam coming along?

I'd bring George the Amazing Lovebird, but he's booked for the week with my parents. He's looking forward to harassing them already with his birdy ways.

I'll be there. I won't be there till Friday evening (stupid... having to be at my job) but I'll be there.

Cooool! It'll be awesome to see you again. :-)

Stupid work. It sucketh, but hey, without it we'd all have to go naked...

Wait a second....

I'm pretty sure i'd steal a loincloth, and people would thank me profusely for doing so. =)

Also, clothes help in the cold.

Temperature right now at the end of May in Boston: 61-degrees. This is not spring. I don't care what anyone says.

Still don't have my plane ticket yet, but I hope to remedy that. I might be around Thursday earlier in the day -- I believe my hotel rez starts then -- and I would LOVE to hang. Man, I miss you!

It'll be awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing you again, too. *hugs*

Wheee! I'm finally getting excited about this. :-)

ponders_life took care of the hotel rezs, so I'm not sure when check in even is (sooooooo lazy). I figured on sneaking into town early to maybe hook up with folks for a late lunch or early dinner if check-in is later in the afternoon (some hotels don't allow check-in until 4 p.m.).

I've checked out my flight (and it sounds like it's going to be about the same $$ as yours) but I'm not booking it til this weekend. Luckily,

stoney321 took care of the hotel part (I'm sharing with her, Yin_Again, and EntreNous.) I'm coming in on Thursday and staying through (doing the writing humor panel. *Tries to look funny*)

Can't wait to meet you!

Irony of ironies:

ponders_life has beta'd for

yin_again. :-) So we'll definitely be seeing each other one way or the other.

Damn. I probably should list the panels I'm doing at some point.

I'll do it after memorial day because I totally have to get together something for the WriterCon archive this weekend. I've been delaying my submission. I have to steel myself for re-reading and editing Cuckoo in the Nest.

Alas, I've not had the honor/pleasure to beta for

yin_again, although I have done so for

reremouse,

savoytruffle, and

sunnyd_lite.

Right now, I'm imagining

crazydiamondsue,

stoney321,

yin_again,

entrenous88 in one room. Whoa. Think we should warn the hotel staff? ;)

It's gonna be frightening. Bring a hose! Actually, three of us are ladies of the first water. Your guess as to who the Wild Card is.

I can't wait to meet you! And Liz! And see Liz's panels!

Oh, maaaan. Does this mean I have to be nice to people? I can't be my grumpy New England Yankee self with the incomprehensible English?

Wait, you mean I have to actually speak standard English. Yaaaargh!

Sorry. *giggle* I finally got bouncy when I bought the plane tickets.

Hunh. Why did I think you beta'd

yin_again? I have no idea why the idea is in my head and refuses to let go.

Wheeee! This is going to be great! I think we know where the party room is going to be.

I will be there!

Um, Sue may already have mentioned that above.

But I will be there, and I'd love to meet you!

Whee! It should be mucho fun! :-)

I can't wait to meet you, too.

I will not be going to writer con, for lo, I have no money, and have used my vacation time already. (And anyway, I'd be too shy to talk to people.) :> The next writer con should be in Phoenix, AZ, at one of the hotels in walking distance of my apartment, yes.

And I will coach you, long distance, on how to talk to people.

For lo, do as I say and not as I actually do, for I have *studied* the "how to talk to people thingee in books and have much wisdom to offer, but cannot actually *use* it for myself.

And will be to WriterCon neither this nor next year. *le sigh* Will be at Vividcon, which is 5 minutes on the expressway from my house, hence not needing to fight *both* social anxiety and creeping borderline agoraphobia (which actually, the two are related more than one would think).

Wishing much fun to all who go!

If it ever shows up in Arizon, sooooo, going to party at

othercat's place.

*looks evil*

Although I suspect I'd be sticking around to check out the desert. Yes, I am fascinated by deserts to an unholy degree. It's all trees, trees, ocean, trees, mountains, more trees, more ocean where I am.

Unless you count The Desert of Maine which is surrounded by, you guessed it, TREES! Actually, picking blueberries where a desert meets an evergreen forest is maybe the weirdest toursty thing I've ever done.

And have fun at vidicon!

Oh if only that were true... and only if it was not the same weekend as ComicCon, which should also be in Phoenix.

Then again, who the hell wants to come to Phoenix in July?

Phoenix in July really isn't that bad. August now, August is the back door of Hell.

I'm a spoiled little California girl... I think the weather we've been having lately is bad enough.

Hi, yes, I'm a wimp.

I wanna go. But it's more than 1000$, trip and hotel. Plus everything, and I like to actually enjoy stuff when I'm on vacation / abroad, and it would set me back beaucoup d'euros, which is like, so not something I wanna do right now, with me on the verge of buying an apartment and all that. Gah!

I don't blame you. If I was hitting up another continent, I guarantee you there'd be sightseeing involved. :-)

"Buying an apartment?" Is that like buying a condo? (Which can be sort of like an apartment, depending on the building). Congrats on buying property if you are.

Hum, I think so. :)

Bying a condo, a flat if you're of a more British persuasion. :)

It'll be payed in around, oh, 45 or something years. Just in time for me to hit the average male life expectancy. :)

If I don't go now things don't look like they'll become easier financially speaking... Gah! Decisions, decisions...

My flight gets in at 12:21 on Thursday. Maybe we could share transpo to the hotel before hanging out?

Someone mentioned a visit to the Coca Cola museum, too. Wheee, that would be fun if we could horn in.

Hopefully, the planes will actually be on time out of Logan and we could hook up at the airport and cut the cab fare.

*waves* Sounds like you got a better deal on tickets overall than I did (mine cost around $340). Then again, I'm flying in from California.

I just wish I'd been able to get in to Atlanta slightly earlier. I'm taking a red-eye Thursday night and getting in to Atlanta mid-morning on Friday.

Yeeeeek. You're going to be wiped. I always find going east harder than going west because of the time difference.

I look forward to seeing you, bleary eyes and all.

I'll have to do my best to sleep on the flight, and then stay awake aaaaaall day on Friday. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep solidly Friday night.

I can but hope. : )

I wish I was going but it's a lot more expensive from England.

So you live in Boston? I don't want to stalk you, promise, I was just thinking you could give me some tips on Faith-speak *g*.

I can't wait to hear all about writercon.

Writing Faith is more cadance for me because if I ever did Boston-speak, no one would ever be able to understand a damn thing she said. Heh.

Since Eliza Dushku is actually from Watertown (which is right outside of Boston), her "Faith voice" on the show is actually the best thing to emulate since it's a perfect mix between what would be widely understandable to people who read English while still sounding close enough to native for horse shoes.

Ahhhh, I knew I wrote something that fanwanked Faith's background. I wrote a Shipper Manifesto for Xander/Faith which has some links you can try.

The closest I've ever gotten to writing a "real" Boston accent complete with speaking cadance in fanfiction is The History of Humor in the 20th Century. Everything Faith mentions in that story in reference to her growing up is legit, as in it wouls be real for a working class young kid during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Also, there's a ton of New Englanders on my FList, and most of them are familiar with Boston and the surrounding area as well. Usually, if you post a question on LJ, someone will wander along to answer it.

Hope that helps. :-)

And sorry you won't be able to make Writercon.

callmesandy and I are both getting in at about 2 in the afternoon. If we're not completely wiped from travel, we'll be looking for people to hang out with. It'll be great to see you again!

My tickets from Hartford were maybe $20 less than yours, but I bought them a couple of weeks ago. And it's not a direct flight, because it's frelling Hartford.

I at least got a direct flight, so that's good. :-)

But then I realized that I'll probably be driving into Logan at rush hour, so not so good. :-(

This'll be fuuuuun. Look forward to seeing you again, too.

I'm there! I'm getting in at 1ish on Thursday with

redeem147. We were thinking of checking out the Coca Cola museum that afternoon. The more the merrier!

Whoa. Did you say Coca Cola museum? AWESOME! Where, where, where? Field trip? Yes? Meet at hotel?

Pweeeeez?

I'll be there! I'm arriving on Thursday at around 3 PM.

Wha-hooooo! This is going to be fun. :-)

Will be there. Actually, as you know, live there. And I intend to tell the store to forget I exist that weekend. Can't wait to show you around my turf for a change!

*looks evil*

Someone mentioned something about a Coca Cola History museum?

Heeee. This is going to be a ton of fun. We're going to be in your backyard. Heeee!

I haven't been in Atlanta for-ever. I think I was there something like 8 years or so ago. I ate at one Italian restaurant there which...was an experience.

But the soul-food restaurant was nothing short of awesome, if only because it wasn't food I recognized and it was soooo good. And nothing says love like a full southern breakfast, I swear.

wait I live in Atlanta.. how come I know nothing about this writercon? Would offer to meet you but looks like youa re swapped with people... and some of them I have read their stuff and am in total awe... dang.

I'm flying in at 7pm. No direct flight for me. Please post your panels, I'm having a hard time figuring out which ones I'm going to and really don't want to miss yours.

I'm equal parts excited and nervous about this. I have the social skills of a yak, but I'm game to try. :)

Nope, going to ComicCon out in lovely San Diego.

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