Worldcon day 1 (yesterday)

It was very surreal staying in college residences again. The bedders even had the exact same uniforms. And then had to struggle with my bags to the SECC. But I successfully left them with the bag check people[1], met the membership transfering guy ("a woman with pink hair" is not unique here, but she was MOST the woman with pink hair) and got a chance to wander round without being late for anythign and meet people.

[1] Are all scottish people nice? Someone tell Jenni :) Or maybe convention people :)

I -- eventually -- transfered to the new acmd, where I met a slightly-published Canadian, co-navigated back, and went to his reading, which was pretty cool.

There was a panel "If you put two slices of bread together with jam in middle and cut it in half, do you have one sandwich or two" which is good -- though you wouldn't want more than one pedantry-as-humour event :) I was lambasted by both sides for saying "one and two sandwiches are both correct".

Went to dinner with Liz and friends -- Liz always has nice friends -- so as to get to the Hilton in time for the gen-u-ine scottish Ceilidh. They were a bit laxer on the telling you what to do than I was used to, but it was very fun.


It's like a whole-week party.