My brain, it's blank....

[tabaqui]

That's what i get for posting tired! The spn_summergen stories are now posting, and my contribution is up! Wheeee! Anonymous, of course. :)




Okay, so - Writercon. I was *not* Ms Social Butterfly, i'll admit it. BUT! I did indeed have a lovely time. I got to hug on _beetle_, and I got to chat about tattoos with nwhepcat, and I got to hear lunabee34 be as cute in person as she is on her lj.

I got a lovely, lovely cloisonne bracelet from spikndru - which i'm still wearing, by the way! I didn't give you a proper thank you, bay-bee, but i was so touched! And i love the colors, so thank you thank you!

Oh, my, who else, who else? essene and dancetomato and mosca who is the uber-editor over at handbasketnews, and....oh, bother. My very sad brain fails me, because there were *others*, oh yes, others, who were lovely and friendly and *hi hi hi*, you, pop up and tell me we met because.....sheesh. I spent a whole weekend staring at bosoms for no reason, apparently! :)

Oh! And of course, saw margarks there, who is plotting another trip to my neck of the woods, and had a most lovely seafood dinner - and intriguing conversation - with executrix and emeraldsedai and of course sweptawaybayou

ALSO, also, Minneapolis is a freakin' amazing town, so damn neat, such fun stuff to look at. Snow and i walked *all over*, for literally hours, and we both had neck aches from peering *upwards* half the day. Fountains! Fiddly bits of gorgeous architecture! Little shops with incredibly expensive imported old stuff! And new stuff, and nifty stuff. Art galleries and painted walls and *churches*, oh yes, can't not see the churches.

So very lovely. :)

Now, i must to bed. I noticed that LJ is not passing along comments, oh what fun. Apparently the less-than-awesome way LJ has been running since yesterday/today is down to some person - possibly the Russian government? - hacking LJ, Twitter and Facebook. trepkos provided this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8189162.stm

Weird stuff!! I'm also watching Criminal Minds. Wheeeeee! I luff them. I can't believe that Garcia/the actress wasn't even *mentioned* in the credits for the entirety of season one. Lame! I do adore she and Morgan flirting, though, and of course Reid in all his geeky, wooby glory. And i rather miss Elle, but i like Prentiss, and JJ rocks. Hotch is adorably uptight and i must say...while i enjoyed him, i don't actually miss Gideon.
*plows through season three*
*yawns*

Goodnight!

Comments

[bendtothesun.livejournal.com]

First, Writercon was in Minn? You were like 3 hours away from me! Also yes it's a lovely lovely city, I need more time to explore it.

Also that explains why all my sites have been running slow as molasses. >\

Love love love Criminal Minds, totally on edge about the last season finale (no not gonna spoil it ;)) and can't wait for the new season to start. Morgan and Reid and Garcia and JJ and Hotch and Prentiss and Rossi(once he got comfortable) are just utter love. JJ and Reid and Prentiss are like tied for favorite character because I just adore them.

Gideon I cried about when it happened, got over it when Rossi decided to be awesome. He's a whole lot gentler than Gideon in some ways and I rather like that. I just love awesome teams.

[tabaqui]

Yes it was! OMG, you so should have made a day trip, that would have been awesome.
:)

I...didn't see the finale, so thank you for not spoiling me! I've seen scattered eps, so i decided i really needed to see it all from episode one, and have all the backstory and info.

I can't wait to catch up and start a new season! :)

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

So glad you had a great time at Writercon! Ms Social Butterfly or not, you got around. *g* I have such fond memories of Atlanta.

WriterconUK is starting a week today and wish you could be there. I'd've pressed you into service for a panel. ;)

Love Criminal Minds! I do miss Mandy but he seems to bail on successful series so it wasn't a huge surprise when he went. Reid is a true wooby, to be compared with Zac in Bones and Rodney. *sigh*

[tabaqui]

Thank you! I really did enjoy it.

Whooooo! I would *adore* going to a UK Writercon!! And the whole panel deal is *soooooo* tempting.....
*plots*

:)

Reid rocks my socks. I adore him. He's the kind of guy i could sit and talk to all day.

[mirasol.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous! Proper green with it, I am. I'd promised myself last time that I'd make this WriterCon but, well, other things happened. Never mind, I'll definitely be at the next one. Until then I'll just have to live vicariously through you all.

I love Criminal Minds. The relationship between Garcia and Morgan is fantastic, they're simply awesome together.

[tabaqui]

Yes, life is so inconvenient, isn't it! :)
I hope you do make it to the next one, that would be spiff!

Garcia and Morgan are *awesome*. As much as i love them as friends, i'd love for them to have a whirlwind romance for a month or so and then mutually decide that while the sex is too hot for words, they are better off friends and then *stay friends*. That would be fun as hell.
:)

*needs CM icon*

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great time! :D Glad you met so many awesome people and enjoyed yourself so much.

[tabaqui]

I did! It was really quite lovely. Thank you!

If you like Criminal Minds, try Shadow Unit

[ponders-life.livejournal.com]

If you like Criminal Minds, you might want to check out Shadow Unit, an online project of SF writers Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and others; they describe it as fan fiction for a show that doesn't exist. The show has some similarities to Criminal Minds in that it's about behavior analysts/profilers/crime investigators in the FBI, but it has science fiction/supernatural elements as well. Here's the story of how and why they started the project.

It just might be your cup o' tea; the writing is really good. Some of the main characters have LJs! They're halfway through season 2, and it is absolutely riveting (as in, the season 1 finale had me up until 2 AM)!

Re: If you like Criminal Minds, try Shadow Unit

[tabaqui]

Oooooooooh, interesting. Thank you! That looks very cool. :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*beams*

I'm so glad we got to hang out!!!!!

[tabaqui]

Me too! Though it should have been longer! We needed to have breakfast or something so we could have just *talked* without all the noise.

*smooch*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I know! It was impossible to really talk at the party. At some point, we shall get the chance to talk, maybe at the next Writercon.

[iyalode.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes. I caught up on S1 of CM a year and a bit ago and ended up plowing right on through to S3.

It's an interesting show in that they all have serious issues in their past. You might say they're

My theory with Elle is she'll turn up one day as an un-sub.

[tabaqui]

Eeep! I hope not! I liked Elle, though i didn't agree with her decisions.

CM is up to season.....four, isn't it? Or five? Or maybe i'm confused.... I'll have to go look!

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

I can't tell you how great it was to meet you in person!!!!

Minneapolis was a great city.

*smooches*

[tabaqui]

YES!
It was lovely! We should have had breakfast or something so we could have had an actual conversation!

*twirls you*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beetle_/]

::hugs on you::

Dude. Staring at bosoms is its own reward.

And FIC!

I'll have to see if I can guess which is yours, though that shouldn't be hard. Follow the trail of awesome, and bam! tabaqui. . . .

Why on Earth would the Russian government hack those sites? Russians are odd. But they have great bone-structure. I gotta read that article.

Minneapolis has even more Thai people/businesses than it did six years ago, but I saw fewer Ethiopians and Somalians. Though I spent a lot of time near the hotel. I was Ms. Social Butterfly, but not Ms. Sightseer :/

Hee, you and seafood. Now that I know your Achilles heel, madame, beware!

[tabaqui]

Heeee! Yes. Most bosoms are quite nice.
:)

*la la la* I think i'm rather transparent - we shall see!

Does knowing my weakness is seafood mean you're going to pay to have some flash-frozen and shipped to me over night?

...

What? Just sayin'....

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled you had such a good time, love. I'm living the experience vicariously through everyone else!

I seriously thought of going this year as it was not that far over the border now I'm on this side of the pond. Then I considered the complications of still having a UK passport with a UK address on it - having a Canadian residency card with a different address and still having to get a US Visa because of said UK passport. I decided my head hurt and I'd probably end up confusing the hell out of the border folks. God knows I'm confusing myself!

Still, it sounds like a fun time was had by all. Next time - nods to self...

[tabaqui]

Thank you!
Oh, it would have been lovely to see you there! You must start sorting out your paperwork - only two years until the next one!
:)