A bit of Arisia

[redbird]

cattitude and I went to Arisia yesterday. We got there late in the morning, wandered a bit in the dealers room, and connected with ashnistrike and Nameseeker; they were in a hurry to a panel, but we agreed to have lunch together.

Lunch was nice, if a bit extravagant, in the hotel's restaurant, which is better than it has any right to be; Ashnistrike and Nameseeker remembered if fondly from last Arisia. We talked over food for an hour and a half, and then in a corner of the con suite for another two hours, until Ashnistrike had to go be on another panel.

I am pleased, and unsurprised, that my friendship with them still works as "see each other at occasional cons, and dive into lots of interesting conversation"; this is a pattern the three of us got into at Wiscon, before I stopped going to Wiscon. I didn't find other people I wanted to talk to in the hour or so after that, and my hip was bothering me, so we decided to go home, and have dinner here. I'd been planning to head back today, but didn't quite feel up to it as I was walking toward the T station. So, a quiet day at home, and I'll try again tomorrow morning.

What I got in the dealers room (so far) is an assortment of chocolate and a t-shirt with a picture of a red panda; red pandas get much less love and attention than the black-and-white giant pandas, but are if anything cuter. They're charismatic, but not megafauna.