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Con, splat, etc
Jan. 15th, 2007 01:51 pmBrief capsule:
- Arisia: not so great. The hotel is a fine enough hotel, but wildly unsuited to the purpose at hand. People being spread across three widely-spaced hotels[1], the difficulty of getting between floors, the complete lack of parking (thank fuck it wasn't a usual Boston winter), and the compressed function space... well, it was not All That. Much of what I go for is rendezvousing with friends, and there was not a lot of that due to the above issues. We did have a great time at dinner Saturday, but that was as a result of diligent rounding up of people for hours beforehand and going way offsite to Mary Chung's. My spies tell me that the con is locked into this hotel for another year, and if that's so I don't think I'll be going. (We were also underwhelmed by the hotel's nickel-and-dime policies. $25/night for a crappy small dorm fridge? $50 for late checkout? Yer what?)
- Failed to go up and see my sister on the Sunday, which I feel guilty about, especially since it was her birthday. I suck.
- Was dog-tired last night but woke up at some dark hour and had a devil time getting back to sleep; I don't even know why. Sublimated stress, possibly. This too shall pass.
- Generally achy today, shoulders and back and knee. My kingdom for a hot tub. This has given more impetus to my thought that next month's Doing Stuff should be a trip to the Russian baths.
[1] which contributed heavily to my lack of hot!kinky!hotel!sex goddammit, though being the group den-mother didn't help either
- Arisia: not so great. The hotel is a fine enough hotel, but wildly unsuited to the purpose at hand. People being spread across three widely-spaced hotels[1], the difficulty of getting between floors, the complete lack of parking (thank fuck it wasn't a usual Boston winter), and the compressed function space... well, it was not All That. Much of what I go for is rendezvousing with friends, and there was not a lot of that due to the above issues. We did have a great time at dinner Saturday, but that was as a result of diligent rounding up of people for hours beforehand and going way offsite to Mary Chung's. My spies tell me that the con is locked into this hotel for another year, and if that's so I don't think I'll be going. (We were also underwhelmed by the hotel's nickel-and-dime policies. $25/night for a crappy small dorm fridge? $50 for late checkout? Yer what?)
- Failed to go up and see my sister on the Sunday, which I feel guilty about, especially since it was her birthday. I suck.
- Was dog-tired last night but woke up at some dark hour and had a devil time getting back to sleep; I don't even know why. Sublimated stress, possibly. This too shall pass.
- Generally achy today, shoulders and back and knee. My kingdom for a hot tub. This has given more impetus to my thought that next month's Doing Stuff should be a trip to the Russian baths.
[1] which contributed heavily to my lack of hot!kinky!hotel!sex goddammit, though being the group den-mother didn't help either
