Conflikt was lovely. Cindy got out her books, pointed meaningfully at Lady of Komarr, and we sang in a circle which had GONE VERY VORKOSIGAN if you know what I mean. I wanted to sing Ivan You Idiot but Cindy and I drew a blank on the tune and I didn’t feel like fleeing to the reg area to listen to it.
Roberta and Juliana fed Cindy and I a LOVERLY Thai dinner and attendant earflapping and I asked Cindy to crash in my room (I always get two doubles, just in case) since she wanted to stay another night but had already checked out and man those 32 db attenuation foam earplugs are amazing. I couldn’t sleep because of JT’s Coffee Cordial (the cocoa cordial was simply phenomenal) but after a while I did and then I let Cindy’s phone alarm go for half an hour while I composed a tune to go along with it. Then I wrote another song and still she did not awaken. That lassie is a sound sleeper. But I was watching her sleep with her cpap on and thinking my god what a good night of sleep she’s having.
Trip north with Jackie Mitchell blasting from the con cd (and Vixy and Tony’s fall about with amusement Santa Baby and Kathleen Sloan’s exCRUCiating filk of Do you want to build a snowman? – Do you want to build an Iron Man? which had me squeeing from word one and TJ’s version of Lullaby for a Weary World I kept having to skip because I’d get all weepy, like that never happens these days.)
HARMONIC MAYHEM performed TAPIOCA with six voices and it was freaking awesome. Tom and Peggy and Jeri Lynn and Jeff and Cindy and Callie were AMAZING as Harmonic Mayhem, and when you’re an international filk group practicing be hard. Callie was part of the filk supergroup Echo’s Children as was Cat Faber who was sadly not at con but lots of people sang her tunes so she was kind of there anyway.
No writing progress, but a nice long walk yesterday with Paul and then the boys came over for The Adventure of English and Paul stayed for chinese food.
Now a great wave of desire for coffee comes over me.
