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Aug. 5th, 2007 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiAaron called me this morning and told me he had a stomach bug. So my desperate plan to "oversleep" and miss my flight and stay at Prophecy through the afternoon is thwarted by the massive guilt I would feel if I didn't get home on time
So I'm at the airport, waiting for my flist, and sad that I won't see how the bidding goes for the Snape in the Tub artwork. When I left the hotel just before 7 a few of the wizard rock crowd were still in the lobby and yes, the con balls are clearly Just Like Prom (But With Better Drinks (Yum, Butterbeer!)).
Fyi to US people - airport has lovely collections of UK-style Dairy Milk in Duty Free areas, wheee.
I had a wonderful time seeing everyone this weekend (and oh God I missed those of you who weren't here so much that it *ached*) and it's so weird feeling that the amazing Summer of Potter, which began for me with a fantastic lunch at Beijing at Penn in Philly with Barb and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennswoods, and went through the fantasticness of Phoenix Rising, my week in NY where I got to see over a dozen friends that I'd met through fandom, the OotP premiere weekend in LA, and now Prophecy (and I guess it's more like the six months of Potterishness, if I want to count back to the wonderful Wedt00bage?) and now I don't know exactly when I'll see y'all again and it makes me want to just cry.
I don't know what I'll manage for next summer - we have two weddings and a bat mitzvah taking up so much of my travel time - but hopefully I can do at least a day + night at Portus and at Terminus, and omg 2010 is going to be fantastic (and I know what I want to do in 09 but I just can't think that far ahead yet wibble).
There are two wonderful things about any HP con: seeing old friends, and meeting new people. I went yesterday to a talk by Andy from HPAlliance about how wizarding rock is getting people to make an impact in trying to stop the genocide in Darfur and how they plan to expand to other projects like disease awareness, gay rights and all-around positive thinking, and there were dozens of teens and twentysomethings who were so gorgeously squeeful about *changing the world* because they've been inspired by the HP books and yes I can be as cynical as anyone about the messages in the books but there's nothing like seeing people want to do something *positive* and *good* and it just made me melt.
1400+ people spent this weekend surrounded by fellow Potter-fans, and it was, overall, phenomenally great. My feet bloody well hurt, the cosmo last night didn't have enough lime and there was no shrine for Regulus (the woobie!) in the astoundingly amazing Hall of Reflection but when I think back on the weekend, I know I'm going to remember the *fun* (and the yummy Crunchie bars from Sheryll)! And how much fun I had hanging out with all of you.
Time to get on the plane and head home, back up my LJ and replicate it on at least one other journaling site, friend those of you who're moving elsewhere and note that I'm not stopping posting on lj even though they totally suck at communicating with their userbase and some even seem to care more for mocking users and RPing, but so much of my flist isn't HP fandom and I have all these RSS feeds here as well as a permanent account from 2005, (and I don't write anything more than PG13 anyway) but I don't want to lose track of any of you so if that means reading more than 1 site each day, I'll do it.
So I'm at the airport, waiting for my flist, and sad that I won't see how the bidding goes for the Snape in the Tub artwork. When I left the hotel just before 7 a few of the wizard rock crowd were still in the lobby and yes, the con balls are clearly Just Like Prom (But With Better Drinks (Yum, Butterbeer!)).
Fyi to US people - airport has lovely collections of UK-style Dairy Milk in Duty Free areas, wheee.
I had a wonderful time seeing everyone this weekend (and oh God I missed those of you who weren't here so much that it *ached*) and it's so weird feeling that the amazing Summer of Potter, which began for me with a fantastic lunch at Beijing at Penn in Philly with Barb and
pennswoods, and went through the fantasticness of Phoenix Rising, my week in NY where I got to see over a dozen friends that I'd met through fandom, the OotP premiere weekend in LA, and now Prophecy (and I guess it's more like the six months of Potterishness, if I want to count back to the wonderful Wedt00bage?) and now I don't know exactly when I'll see y'all again and it makes me want to just cry.I don't know what I'll manage for next summer - we have two weddings and a bat mitzvah taking up so much of my travel time - but hopefully I can do at least a day + night at Portus and at Terminus, and omg 2010 is going to be fantastic (and I know what I want to do in 09 but I just can't think that far ahead yet wibble).
There are two wonderful things about any HP con: seeing old friends, and meeting new people. I went yesterday to a talk by Andy from HPAlliance about how wizarding rock is getting people to make an impact in trying to stop the genocide in Darfur and how they plan to expand to other projects like disease awareness, gay rights and all-around positive thinking, and there were dozens of teens and twentysomethings who were so gorgeously squeeful about *changing the world* because they've been inspired by the HP books and yes I can be as cynical as anyone about the messages in the books but there's nothing like seeing people want to do something *positive* and *good* and it just made me melt.
1400+ people spent this weekend surrounded by fellow Potter-fans, and it was, overall, phenomenally great. My feet bloody well hurt, the cosmo last night didn't have enough lime and there was no shrine for Regulus (the woobie!) in the astoundingly amazing Hall of Reflection but when I think back on the weekend, I know I'm going to remember the *fun* (and the yummy Crunchie bars from Sheryll)! And how much fun I had hanging out with all of you.
Time to get on the plane and head home, back up my LJ and replicate it on at least one other journaling site, friend those of you who're moving elsewhere and note that I'm not stopping posting on lj even though they totally suck at communicating with their userbase and some even seem to care more for mocking users and RPing, but so much of my flist isn't HP fandom and I have all these RSS feeds here as well as a permanent account from 2005, (and I don't write anything more than PG13 anyway) but I don't want to lose track of any of you so if that means reading more than 1 site each day, I'll do it.
