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starladyI was productive yesterday (as I have not yet been today, alas) and so I went in to the city for two parties last night: the first, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seanan_mcguire's release party for An Artificial Night at Borderlands Books, and the second, damned_colonial's couchwarming party.
Both were a lot of fun--at the Artificial Night party I had rosemary shortbread and obtained a Chimera Fancies pendant of mine own and talked with Seanan McGuire about kitsune in the Toby Daye books, about which she had very thoughtful and cogent things to say, and I got to hear the fabled S.J. Tucker perform, along with some other highly talented musicians, and talked about books with other party-goers, principally the WTFRage of E.Moon and the GrrArgh of The Windup Girl being nominated for the Hugo (and then winning, but its winning was a foregone conclusion once it was nominated; the Hugo electorate is not particularly volatile). That was all one sentence. The couchwarming party was even better, though--many wonderful geeks of various stripes, good food, good fun (and also fanvids, because would it be a couchwarming party without fanvids? no, it would not). *waves to party people*
Took the very last BART back withanatsuno and then did shell out for a taxi from the BART stop to my house--at the advice of one of my fellow party-goers, I think I'm going to start using the paid 24-hour bike parking next to the station for when I come back late from the city. It is a practice I can live with on multiple axes, anyway.
And now I must go translate things. Maybe shower first.
seanan_mcguire's release party for An Artificial Night at Borderlands Books, and the second, damned_colonial's couchwarming party. Both were a lot of fun--at the Artificial Night party I had rosemary shortbread and obtained a Chimera Fancies pendant of mine own and talked with Seanan McGuire about kitsune in the Toby Daye books, about which she had very thoughtful and cogent things to say, and I got to hear the fabled S.J. Tucker perform, along with some other highly talented musicians, and talked about books with other party-goers, principally the WTFRage of E.Moon and the GrrArgh of The Windup Girl being nominated for the Hugo (and then winning, but its winning was a foregone conclusion once it was nominated; the Hugo electorate is not particularly volatile). That was all one sentence. The couchwarming party was even better, though--many wonderful geeks of various stripes, good food, good fun (and also fanvids, because would it be a couchwarming party without fanvids? no, it would not). *waves to party people*
Took the very last BART back with
anatsuno and then did shell out for a taxi from the BART stop to my house--at the advice of one of my fellow party-goers, I think I'm going to start using the paid 24-hour bike parking next to the station for when I come back late from the city. It is a practice I can live with on multiple axes, anyway. And now I must go translate things. Maybe shower first.