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i had a very long, detailed, and strange dream about my ex last night. Then I mostly forgot about it until I lay down again, when it came rushing back to me. we did a lot of walking on hilly streets and in snow in the dream, and my legs started aching the second before my brain remembered the details. bodies and minds are SO BIZARRE.

( house stuff )
and while I have you here, one last thing. If you've ever thought you might want to try out a fancon, and north america is within your travelling reach, now is the time to check out Wincon. If you've been with me any time at all, you know Wincon is one of my favorite weekends of the whole year. and this year we need more attendees to keep it going. Please check out Wincon's Indiegogo page and get a weekend pass. or pick yourself up some awesome fannish loot. It really is an amazing time, with amazing people. And it's an amazing fandom tradition, and I can't bear to think of losing it.

I can't believe it's been over a week since Wincon and I haven't managed to post about it yet. I had a fantastic time this year, right up until the point when I didn't. Unfortunately, my Wincon was cut rather abruptly short by food poisioning which meant I missed the prom and festivities, a night I look forward to all year, and most of the saying goodbye which happens on Sunday. I did, however, get to have a great day out on the strip--Wincon was in Vegas this year--with beckaandzac on Thursday, window shopping in the Venitian and then eating an absolutely amazing steak lunch at the Paris hotel. We had escargot to start, which I hadn't tried since I was fifteen. I hadn't liked it much then, but I was all about its garlic-y herby deliciousness this time. Especially with the crusty French bread and fruity tart Sangria we had with it. My steak was perfectly cooked, tender, juicy, and served Au Poivre, which is my forevergirl steak sauce. It came with the most amazing pommes frites, thin and crispy and tender. It was as though a stack of pringles had sex with a plate of french fries and had a baby. A delicious baby. We definitely didn't need dessert, although as we were walking out, I spied some delicious looking bread pudding that I'd like to try sometime.

In the hotel, on my part there was a lot of screaming about the boys from One Direction and the girls from Little Mix, sharing of stickers and decorating of cups, playing of Spanking Yoda, and screaming about One Direction some more. A group of us also played a Breakfast Show drinking game along with Nick Grimshaw's breakfast show (which on Pacific time airs live at 10:30 at night). I gave up and went to bed just after midnight, though others stayed the 3.5 hour distance. I didn't make it to as many panels as I'd hoped, due to the whole sick thing, but the kink panel was excellent, and the incest panel was enthusiastic as always :D

I made it down to the strip a second time with itsthedetails, deirdre_c and beckaandzac and we wandered the casinos at the south end. We got back just in time for Becka and I to attend the 1D panel, which turned out to be all introductions and discussion of how we got into the fandom, but was no less awesome for that. I seem to be one of the very few people who never had 1D blacklisted on tumblr. I was always willing if not ready.

I've signed up for a fic exchange posting in January, in the hopes that it would kick-start my words. I managed 1500, which is great, but my problem the last few months has lain in finishing anything I start, so I am not out of the woods yet. Fingers crossed though.

And now my lunch break is nearly over, so I leave you. hopefully I will return soon, however!

There has been some sleep, and I have a day off tomorrow, so I am feeling a little more capable of getting a detail or two about Wincon down onto paper. And by paper I mean the whitespace of this posting box. this year's con was in Dallas, where the wind is warm and the airport is huge. The fangirls were plentiful and the prom ran late. I had a wonderful time.

( cut for a long weekend )

It turns out that this was still a totally uninspired recap of the weekend, but I cannot brain right now. Work is kicking my ass, between the early starts and the fact that I don't do very well with not knowing how to do things. But I'll get there, and that's the important part.

Now. When do I get my fangirl transporter device?

I had a million amazing moments at Wincon, and a wonderful time, but I did not have a million hours of sleep, and I have to leave for work at 6:20 in the morning, so I shall have to report later. For now, suffice to say, FANGIRLS ARE STILL MY FAVOURITE.

I have finally booked my flight TO Wincon, but I couldn't manage to book one back again. I just had a COMPLETE failure of decision making and flipped out and literally tore at my hair just like my icon and went back and booked a one-way ticket. Which only means I have to go back and do this all over again, but hopefully I will be better equipped tomorrow? idek why it is so hard.

question, though, if you are going to Wincon, when are you leaving? I have to leave Sunday, but the time is completely stumping me. (also ugh, what an expensive day to fly.)

One of my favourite parts of Wincon every year is group writing badfic. It happened pretty much totally by accident this year, and involved a lot more alcohol than previous years' efforts, but it was still fun in the end, even though I had no idea what was happening at first. All the alcohol and confusion led to insane but ridiculous results. I'm pretty sure the whole thing is beyond random and into incomprehensible to anyone else, but lazy_daze has posted it here if you want to take a look :D

I am still missing all the fangirls from around the world like crazy, and cursing my inability to get a job at an airline when I was job hunting last year. Stupid airlines. I would be AWESOME at using my free flights to visit all the fangirls ever serving drinks and keeping people calm.

Oh Wincon, why can't you last all year????

ALSO. and totally changing the subject. I really want to marry this woman. She is hot and clearly awesome.

Last night I realized that with deirdre_c, missyjack, drvsilla, grayscaled, and gekizetsu not here, I am the only one of the badfic idol team I've written with every year. I am really sad about this. But I'm raising a glass to all you girls. ♥♥

It's almost Wincon, and I have been super behind this year in all aspects of organizing. But I finally have hotel reservations, and plane tickets, and I want to know who besides me and my roommies are going to be there :D

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I'm finally sitting down to do a Wincon Week post. I'm hoping I won't have forgotten everything already. D: This is what happens when you let your life get all busy and stuff ;P

( I'm anticipating this getting kind of long )
And that was the beginning of the epic 5-day road trip from Chicago to San Francisco. Which is where I'll leave you now, because I have errands to run, and I'd like to post this today.

( nws fanart is the best fanart )
beckaandzac is made of WIN.