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CONvergence was really great!

The Bollywood room party was a hit! Running a party with windelina = excellent. It took some work to set up Wednesday and Thursday, but wasn't too bad. azure_armand, fayde, and Rubin were particularly stalwart volunteers, but several others were awesome excellent helpers. We had a lot of fun with the party, and people really seemed to like the food, activities, and decor. I have a bunch of photos to post, as people really got into the photo-frame thing we did and wearing saris. The flash mob on Friday at 2 AM was particularly excellent and a great way to end the party. Fun! I think we will do it again next year, with some minor changes. One of those is, I hope, more helpers. Anyone interested?

I didn't feel like I was particularly useful to Facilities during Con, but I guess I was a little. We'll see how that goes in future years, if I can be more useful without it being a gigantic timesuck.

On Saturday I did the T-shirt modification workshop, which was so much fun! And apparently was also well-received. I took a little down time in the room and finished adding glowy stuff to azure_armand's and my outfits for the night. Those were fun! Here's a picture, although of course it doesn't show the light-up aspect:

The little boutonniere thing on Azure's coat (which I made from scratch) was a fiberoptic wand that I stitched into the coat and stitched down so it fanned out. There was another one on his back. I also had two on my dress. As the night wore on and I danced a lot, I realized that I hadn't stitched them into my dress carefully enough, though, and I lost 'em both. Oops. Well, the fiberoptic wands were Ax-Man finds of a couple of bucks each, so no big loss. I also had a "nebula" thing I made out of mostly black-light reactive fabric, and paint, and a few LEDs, and some EL wire (that stopped working within an hour of me putting the thing on, at which point I ripped the EL wire out and kept going). La la la.

Sunday was more downtempo, as it tends to be, but I helped a bit with load out, and ran into some overly officious and bureaucratic fans/volunteers but tried not to let that get to me, and went to closing ceremonies, and dead-dogged with the movie and the post-movie hanging out in various spots around con. I like the hyperactive insanity of the three nights prior, but in some ways that much more relaxed tempo of Sunday night was really nice.

And now it's Monday, and after a tiny bit more move-out, I'm home, and partially unpacked, and we put the AC in the window, and I'm glad to be back with the cats. Right now, I need my quiet time. But that was fun. Let's do it again next year!

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Thank you! I will make sure the main organizers of that workshop hear that compliment. How nice.