Sometimes, the Great Figure It Out

[aberrantangels]

Oh, and just to let people know: my next entry will be posted from Boston, home of Noreascon Four, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention. And don't worry, sweet bird: this time, I'm bringing earplugs, so I should get enough sleep to be able to appreciate it properly. At the very least, if I'm not getting enough sleep, I'll try to report just the con-specific news (who wins the Hugos and Retro Hugos and the 2007 site selection), not my own reactions. (I'll be reporting those vote results at a minimum anyway.) Hopefully, I'll be awake enough to remember how lucky I am to be there, and how lucky I'll be to be heading to Glasgow next year. At the very least, if I'm not that awake, I'll try to refrain from pissing and moaning about how tired&hungry I am, because it gives the impression that that's all I'm thinking about, and I don't want to do that again.

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Lucky you!

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

[waves from up north] Do you have a camera to do a proper con report, with pictures?

If you get a chance to roam around Boston at all, make sure you visit the Gardner Museum. Mrs. Gardner was the widow of one of those 19th century tycoons who accrued vast amounts of art from the continent a hundred years ago, and built herself a palace partly composed of sometimes-dubiously-aquired bits of medieval castles and monasteries and roman ruins, and lived there among the tapestries and halberds and Boticellis (sometimes with beautiful young male artists) until her death, whereupon she left it to the people. There are always flowers blooming there, from the attached greenhouses, and everything must remain exactly as she arranged it in her will. It's surreal and wonderful, even if they have lost one of their Rembrandts to theft.

PS - you can also get very good, inexpensive food at the various Asian takeaway places around the museums and schools.

Re: Lucky you!

[aberrantangels]

Do you have a camera to do a proper con report, with pictures?

We might have a disposable, and if I can master uploading of images other than usericons, I might slip some pix in.

If you get a chance to roam around Boston at all, make sure you visit the Gardner Museum.

My kindly gray-haired mother says thanks for the reminder; the Gardner is her favorite museum in the whole city.

you can also get very good, inexpensive food at the various Asian takeaway places around the museums and schools.

As we're going to be on something of a budget, I'll remember that. Thanks again!

If they're not too large files

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I can shoehorn them in onto Odd Lots, at least temporarily, until you find a place to put them.

Another place, if you have time to walk around and it's nice weather, which is fun and not exactly tourist country, is Rowes Wharf, the newish mercantile development that has a neo-Georgian look to it, across from what used to be the Atlantic Ave exit pre-big dig. The architecture is really cool, there are several antique stores that focus on maritime - yes, you could come home with a figurehead, or an anchor, if you had the money - and some beautiful model ships, plus you can walk out to the water and admire the boats in the marina there, if that's your cup of Earl Grey...

Boston really is a very nice city, with or without the excuse of a Worldcon. (Are either of you going to be in the Masquerade? *g* Those sound like fun.)

[canaa.livejournal.com]

You know, ryuutchi will be at Worldcon on Sunday. :)

Also, I doubt it's going to happen, but if you happen to trip over Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett in a back alley of the con, make them sign something for me, please? Doesn't matter what? [makes big, hopeful eyes]

Have fun!

[aberrantangels]

Yeah, I saw on her journal. I've tried to make arrangements to bump into her and get gnawed on; we'll see how it goes.

And I've already got plenty of my own stuffs to get signed by Pterry, but I can tell him you said hi. 8-)