Claire

Blade is trying to persuade me away from my love of the moral highground with "but the swamp gases are flammable!"

I hate that I stopped to consider that.

Also I have the best t-shirt from chameleongirl79 :DDDDDDDD THANKS, BB. (Pics tomorrow b/c I think I'm wearing it.)

Armageddon tomorrow, for which I have a smart phone for the first time, so either I will be totally MIA or you'll be getting "OH at Auckgeddon" tweets every ten minutes.

(I know where the smart money is.)

Home safely from Wellington. Because I am awesome at, you know, forethought, I basically spent an hour and a half sitting in the airport up here waiting for my dad's flight to get in, because I kind of neglected to figure out a way to get home myself, and my mother is sort of... in Australia, and thus was also incapable of picking me up. Heh. Oops.

Anyhow, Wellington was most excellent, the con was fun, the company was even better (I managed to catch up with angel_a, arysteia, aworldinside, blue_raven, china_shop and morebliss, which was great), except of course now I am really rather tired, and edging towards kind of desperately over-socialised, so I'm pretty much just going to go make some dinner and then watch a DVD and go to bed early. Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!

PS: Chris Judge is a bad, bad man and I find him delightful. I have an ASSLOAD of video to try and upload later, though of course I managed to completely forget to take photos of, you know, people I know. Darnit. Next time!

Okay, so I realised last night that I am, in fact, kind of an incredible dumbass. I've been running around like a maniac trying to get things sorted for May and June and August shenanigans and... haven't really given a lick of thought (outside of 'do i have a bed to sleep in, y/n?') to the fact I'm going to be in Wellington for about forty eight hours NEXT WEEK. Oops. *sheepish*

So, I get in to Wellington around 3.30pm on the Friday afternoon, at which point I anticipate meeting up with ms blue_raven at some point shortly thereafter.
Saturday day is convention-related shenanigans, as will Sunday morning be (regrettably, the only useful-to-me-and-not-obscenely-priced flight back is at 4.30pm on Sunday, so i'm only around till, like, 3pm, I guess, since I'll have to get myself to the airport.), but I should be available for breakfast/lunch/coffee/dinner type meetups if people are keen. I have tentative plans for Friday night, but if people want to try and get together for a fangirly dinner (or drinks, I guess?) out somewhere on Saturday, please comment below, or email me, or, uh, suggest somewhere good to eat? I would love to see as many of you lovely local people as possible, so just give us a yell. And I think you all have my cell - comment if you don't, and I can email it to you.

So, I've never done this media guest deal thing at cons before - I've only ever had comic artists sign, and so on, so I am all kinds of !! and bewildered by things, and thusly clutching at blue_raven and tshirtgirl a very much lot for direction. As anyone who saw katrin can attest, we joined the insane queue for photos with Joe, and so, hi, there is now a photo of me with Joe Flanigan. (He apparently had his arm over my shoulder, I so do not remember this.) And wow, tall. And Chris Judge, who we will hopefully do the photo thing with later, oh my god, SO gorgeous. Connor Trinneer is adorable and utterly charming, and told us we looked lovely at the cocktail thing. Um, I feel like there was something else I felt the need to share with the internet but I am drawing a blank right now. Urk. The panels were pretty good today - Connor dealt extremely well with questions that had us cringing and praying for ninjas, and Joe said something (don't recall right now, it'll come back to me) in his panel that gave me a sudden and wild word-geek crush on his brain. We went through the autograph line as well, largely on a just-in-case basis since Joe's leaving at 4 tomorrow, and so I have also stuttered at Chris Judge, Joe Flanigan and Connor Trinneer. I am in no way any fraction approaching 'cool'. (However, not as badly as I stuttered at Lois a few years ago, I think it'd take Hewlett (if that) to equal the mindless panic of trying to tell Lois McMaster Bujold how awesome she is.)

The cocktail evening was not, I gather, quite as chatty as last year (which was probably a good thing for my self-respect, if nothing else, as that's already in tatters this week (yet to be mentioned in my LJ this week: the number of times I have FALLEN OVER SHIT in front of people and hurt myself; I have spent the last three days barely able to move/definitely not reall able to sit/bend), and there was a creepy handsy person, which made, I think, both the guests and the people who saw/heard about it very uncomfortable. ugh, people. WHY. (Send. Ninjas.)

But, yes, is very awesome and I have FABULOUS roommates and hope all is well on internets land. <3

Oh, and I should've said - our hotel is super flash and like a five mintue walk if THAT from Aotea Square, \o/, although our inclination to be enthusiastic about the place took quite a hit this morning when the shower flooded and the first response from reception was to say that no one on Maintenance could look at it until Monday. Yeah, I DON'T THINK SO. We got Assertive. It got fixed.

Um. Yes. people are pretty. Fandom is excellent. I love my show/s. *flails* *and fails at going to bed*

Right. I worked all day and my car went from GREEN \o/ right back to BROWN /o\ in the space of nine hours because it was so dry/dusty/windy and well, I really don't have much of anything to say/contribute to the world. So I'm going to explain about the shoelaces and spam you with some other random pics.

( Picspam (13 x photos, 3x icons)! Shoelaces! Kitties! Hawaii! MINOR spoiler (of gesture!) for SGA 3x15 The Game! )

( Spoiler for 3x12 Echoes referenced, plus S5 + S6 of SG-1. )

I am so completely fried. Going in to town for about three hours today just wiped me out completely (SO worth it, though) and I want to record it all later here for, well, myself and anyone who's interested, but right now? Going to bed with DVDs. Am kind of annoyed at myself - I was so gone after dinner that, despite the fact I mentioned it at dinner and have been looking forward to it all week, I forgot all about Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl being on Holmes tonight, so I basically, uh, 'sprang' (read: moved like a very very old person) out of the bath and basically sat in front of the tv in a towel and caught the last ten minutes of it. Rats. I mean, Holmes himself is just so- god, he's so ANNOYING and patronising, and he kept kind of ignoring David in Rachel's favour, but the two of them were totally wonderful. They make a superb double act.

I took... a fair bit of shoddy video at Armageddon this afternoon, which I will share later (put it this way: 1min of footage = 20min uploading time, I am not made of patience), but for now, since I uploaded it and it wasn't done before Kat went to bed: David Nykl talks about SF, with a snippet at the end regarding the possibility of Zelenka having scenes with Teyla. I have a few snippety bits of video from SG1 people as well (Tony Amendola and Colin Cunningham (I resolutely kept ALL thoughts about "the Lush Major Davis" well inside my own head during his part, hee)) but the lighting is, in fact, even worse in those, so, uh, yeah. I was too far back, and I feel really bad because I suspect my camera was in the way and, um, guilt.

There may also have been an incident in which I nearly smacked David Nykl's ass (purely by accident, okay?) but, uh, we're not talking about that now. *is so fucking classy*

super rapid quick update.

Jewel Staite is teeny tiny and adorable and did I mention? Adorable. We only saw her panel as we decided that paying for autographs/photos wasn't really in our budget and we could take photos during the panel for free. Um. Yeah. Also, she is YOUNGER than most of us. Which is... trippy. I did not know that. Also, she was in an episode of SGA?! And I did not know this! Flist? SO FIRED. (I kid cos I love.) I took a large number of very bad photos (we were only like six rows back and it was very loose ,but she was sitting down the whole time so it's pretty much just her head) and also a bunch of video-as-sound-recordings, since my phone is being exceedingly 'special' at the moment and won't record sound or take photos.

But yeah. We also saw John Billingsley (?) who neither of us would've known from Adam, but he was hilarious and great and is nearly making us want to watch Enterprise just because he was so cool. That way leads madness, I know.

We took off after Jewel's panel to the LotR exhibit again (yes, we are using our 30 or so hours in Wellington efficiently!) and saw that again (Boromir is still the most realistic wax figure thing I have ever seen, ngh) and saw all the new stuff from, like, RotK and all. It was awesome. I may have accidently spent a lot of money today. In my defence, I found the two disc edition of Narnia very cheap, I found what seems to be a first edition in hardback of the orange bible (!) and, um. Okay, I suck and am weak but it's just so PRETTY I had to get it. I may have also bought other stuff like maybe a geeky picture to hang above the computer but we're NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW KAY? And yes, there may a little bit be a zed-pee-em in said picture. *facepalms* *gleefully*

Also, we found a video shop that had SGA tonight and, um. Yeah. Me? DOOMED. My credit card? Having accidents TOMORROW. Kat? Prepare for incoming. Heh. I mean, it's no due South. But god is it just... good. I. I swear, the bit? With the balcony? In the second episode? I was in convulsions of glee on the couch. This is GOOD SQUISHY.

I also wrote, like, two hundred words of highwaymiles in a cafe at lunch so... go me? (Okay, strictly speaking, I wrote about a thousand words but there were two very failed attempts to start with, so. heh. Again, this will be a deadline going WHOOSH experience, I feel.)

Hope everyone in Iowa is having a great time, I will sadly be unable to ring as I never got anyone's numbers and, um, I maybe have like two dollars left on my phone anyway if that. Also, Kat? Dunno if you got the phone message this afternoon, I tried to queue it up so you got Duck (so many Ducks in my life. This is not a bad thing) and Miranda Otto. My success may have been limited. (Actually, you're probably sitting there going öh, so THAT'S what that weird call was, oops?)

Also, is it just me or is the SGA theme song sort of lifted almost in its entirety from that of SeaQuest DSV? With a side smooshing of JAG? ...just me then? :D