Connotations 09, and Harper's Island
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girlofpreyHello. It's me. I didn't get stuck somewhere on the way back from Connotations, I just haven't been posting. I'd like to apologise again about the lack of posting or commenting. Sorry about that.
But I did go to Connotations. I took longer than I probably needed to getting to Lancaster on the Thursday and then drove up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jekesta, alicamel and calapine on Friday. The hotel screwed us over slightly by booking boxing as well as the con on the Friday night so we had to have the first couple of panels in a weird hot room where we normally have vid shows or pimping, but jekesta and I had a lovely double room, with a view of the beach from the bathroom, and a view of the sea and what turned out to be a seal enclosure at the aquarium next door from the main room, although we didn't find out about the seal enclosure thing until we were just about to leave. I've forgiven the hotel so many things because it was near the beach. But the next day we were back in the main room for panels, so it was a bit better. And we had panels and discussed fanfic trends and minority pairings and femslash and we played slash pictionary and there was cake and I watched some of Spirited Away and I learned about huge fannish events that I hadn't noticed at the time and one of the panels was slightly livened up by a bee and we played slash trap, which is AWESOME, even if we didn't ever get the Tyler/El Blanco High School AU I was hoping for. And I had a great time, Connotations hurrah!
On the Monday after we checked out,jekesta, calapine and nerdcakes and I all went to aquarium down the road as well. We saw beautiful fish, and a shark, and some seals doing the best chasing and twirling in the water ever. I fear I might have been slightly ruined for any other aquarium, because I don't think any of them could ever have such great seal chasing and twirling again. Oh well.
Also I won Sirius Black and a red flower thing in the Connotations raffle. Hurray.
Since then I have managed to a) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch or listen to while I was at Connotations, b) get into town twice before the shops closed to buy (cheapish) things I didn't need, c) go to the Goose Fair with my parents and oldest nephew, which was pretty great, I had Rocky Road fudge and a freshly (cooked? baked?) made doughnut, d) pay the rent with money I'm going to have to borrow off my parents till my housing benefit comes through, and e) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch while I was out at the Goose Fair. I know. CHECK OUT THE ACHIEVEMENT. Tonight I'm aiming for f) apply for at least one job and g) fill in my Jobseeker's diary, and then tomorrow for h) get up in time for my Jobseeker's appointment, i) go to my Jobseeker's appointment, and j) try to sort out getting some money from my ISA so I can pay my parents back the money I owe them. Who knows.
In the meantime: I have been unexpectedly charmed by some of Harper's Island. Cal gave - um - his girlfriend the ring! Cal got shot! Sully carried him in an only slightly comical fashion and Cal is going to have to talk him through how to save his (Cal's) life as he is bleeding to death from a gunshot wound! Oh. I kind of love Cal. And JD was slightly annoying and rat-faced, but he was also a bit of an idiot, and it makes me slightly sad he's not going to get to have make-up incest with his brother. He did get investigative sex with that scarred guy in the woods (who I thought was John Wakefield initially) though, that was quite nice. I had Abby sort of pegged as John Wakefield's daughter since we learned her mother had an affair with Wakefield 'about 17 years ago', but I'm still vaguely expecting some sort of twist. I wasn't really expecting John Wakefield to come back because I thought Abby was insisting he was still alive, therefore television logic said it would have to be someone else. I didn't actually watch the first two episodes, at least, so I got confused about a few things. I still prefer the version where Abby went a bit mad after finding her mother dead and had a split personality she called John Wakefield.
My current favourite theory is that Nikki, the blonde waitress woman, is John Wakefield's child, because he let her get to the bar place okay. Also I still vaguely suspect Henry of stuff, because he's done a few odd things, like turn up conveniently just as his brother died, covered in blood. And explain somewhat pointedly to Trish that he was going to have to stay behind on the island while the rest of them left. But that was before I was expecting Wakefield to actually come back, and I'm probably just expecting more from the show than I really should. Anyway, the season finale is this weekend. Rah.
Anyway. Back to those things I have to do.
But I did go to Connotations. I took longer than I probably needed to getting to Lancaster on the Thursday and then drove up with
jekesta, alicamel and calapine on Friday. The hotel screwed us over slightly by booking boxing as well as the con on the Friday night so we had to have the first couple of panels in a weird hot room where we normally have vid shows or pimping, but jekesta and I had a lovely double room, with a view of the beach from the bathroom, and a view of the sea and what turned out to be a seal enclosure at the aquarium next door from the main room, although we didn't find out about the seal enclosure thing until we were just about to leave. I've forgiven the hotel so many things because it was near the beach. But the next day we were back in the main room for panels, so it was a bit better. And we had panels and discussed fanfic trends and minority pairings and femslash and we played slash pictionary and there was cake and I watched some of Spirited Away and I learned about huge fannish events that I hadn't noticed at the time and one of the panels was slightly livened up by a bee and we played slash trap, which is AWESOME, even if we didn't ever get the Tyler/El Blanco High School AU I was hoping for. And I had a great time, Connotations hurrah!On the Monday after we checked out,
jekesta, calapine and nerdcakes and I all went to aquarium down the road as well. We saw beautiful fish, and a shark, and some seals doing the best chasing and twirling in the water ever. I fear I might have been slightly ruined for any other aquarium, because I don't think any of them could ever have such great seal chasing and twirling again. Oh well.Also I won Sirius Black and a red flower thing in the Connotations raffle. Hurray.
Since then I have managed to a) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch or listen to while I was at Connotations, b) get into town twice before the shops closed to buy (cheapish) things I didn't need, c) go to the Goose Fair with my parents and oldest nephew, which was pretty great, I had Rocky Road fudge and a freshly (cooked? baked?) made doughnut, d) pay the rent with money I'm going to have to borrow off my parents till my housing benefit comes through, and e) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch while I was out at the Goose Fair. I know. CHECK OUT THE ACHIEVEMENT. Tonight I'm aiming for f) apply for at least one job and g) fill in my Jobseeker's diary, and then tomorrow for h) get up in time for my Jobseeker's appointment, i) go to my Jobseeker's appointment, and j) try to sort out getting some money from my ISA so I can pay my parents back the money I owe them. Who knows.
In the meantime: I have been unexpectedly charmed by some of Harper's Island. Cal gave - um - his girlfriend the ring! Cal got shot! Sully carried him in an only slightly comical fashion and Cal is going to have to talk him through how to save his (Cal's) life as he is bleeding to death from a gunshot wound! Oh. I kind of love Cal. And JD was slightly annoying and rat-faced, but he was also a bit of an idiot, and it makes me slightly sad he's not going to get to have make-up incest with his brother. He did get investigative sex with that scarred guy in the woods (who I thought was John Wakefield initially) though, that was quite nice. I had Abby sort of pegged as John Wakefield's daughter since we learned her mother had an affair with Wakefield 'about 17 years ago', but I'm still vaguely expecting some sort of twist. I wasn't really expecting John Wakefield to come back because I thought Abby was insisting he was still alive, therefore television logic said it would have to be someone else. I didn't actually watch the first two episodes, at least, so I got confused about a few things. I still prefer the version where Abby went a bit mad after finding her mother dead and had a split personality she called John Wakefield.
My current favourite theory is that Nikki, the blonde waitress woman, is John Wakefield's child, because he let her get to the bar place okay. Also I still vaguely suspect Henry of stuff, because he's done a few odd things, like turn up conveniently just as his brother died, covered in blood. And explain somewhat pointedly to Trish that he was going to have to stay behind on the island while the rest of them left. But that was before I was expecting Wakefield to actually come back, and I'm probably just expecting more from the show than I really should. Anyway, the season finale is this weekend. Rah.
Anyway. Back to those things I have to do.
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Date: 2009-10-06 09:40 pm (UTC)Connotations was great, our room was quite lovely, I loved the bee, and the seals.
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Date: 2009-10-06 10:47 pm (UTC)Oh Jennifer. Constantly passing the buck. I love how when Cal and Sully got to the car and drove out of the car park, the rest of them were like "Yay! I think they're going to make it!", as NOTHING COULD GO WRONG AFTER THAT. It's a slightly brilliant show. It's basically a horror film, but for MUCH LONGER. I'm quite looking forward to the last two episodes.
The bee and the seals, and the room, totally made it one of the best Connotations so far.