Back at work...

...and totally not happy about it. I'm at work today only because the apartment complex notified the apartments around me that they were shutting the water off today to do plumbing repairs, and I decided I'd rather be miserable in a place with running water. Sum total useful work today: I turned in a form. Which involved me walking over to one office in the library to get a signature and then upstairs (on the elevator, actually, otherwise I'd start coughing and not stop) to turn it in, which made me tired.

Anyway, I'm sitting here trying to stay awake, so to help me: tell me your convention stories. Funny, sad, noncomittal, whatever.

Here's a short one that isn't even mine, it's mothoc's, but I stole it from him: at A-Kon a couple of years ago, one of the escalators from one convention floor to another stopped, with many people standing on it. Who remained standing on it, until someone near the bottom yelled for them to WALK UP THE STAIRS.

Poll! And Defining Fandom Moments!

I rented some movies on the way home, because there is nothing at home that interests me right now and I am WAY TOO DAMN TIRED to do anything but lie on the couch and moan tragically. And since the only being around to hear me moan tragically is the cat and she doesn't give a damn, it's rather a boring pastime.

So, poll.

[Poll #838730]


And another con-related question: tell me your Defining Fandom Moment(s). Can be at a con or not, however you want to interpret it. Here's one of mine:

A few years ago when I was on the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list, she came by Austin on a signing tour. An Austin resident on the mailing lsit threw together a party and invited anyone on the list who could make it, plus a lot of local fandom people, and Bujold herself, who showed up. Anyway, at one point, the normal party Brownian motion led me in the direction of a group of little old white-haired ladies sitting in the corner, deeply involved in an animated discussion. I wandered over and eavesdropped. They were discussing attack helicopters.




(OK, of of the white-haired ladies was Elizabeth Moon, so it's not entirely unexpected, but still...)

*twitch*

When the bass on your car's sound system sets off car alarms, it is officially Too Damn Loud.

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

TS: AC&BS is basically meta-commentary on filmmaking. It's a film about making a film about the 18th-century comic novel Tristram Shandy, and the two stars of it, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play, respectively, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it - I was in the mood for either straight comedy, or for something like Looking for Richard that focused more on the actual experience of making a film, instead of fictionalizing it. The part I liked the best was in the extras, under Behind the Scenes Footage, with Stephen Fry (who has a cameo in the movie as himself playing Parson Yorick) geeking out about Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy. The sound was prety bad in that segment, unfortunately.

At any rate, if you're into meta-commentary on filmmaking, recommended, if you're just looking for a light comedy to pass the time with, not.

Feeling a little better...

...not physically, though, just mentally. On a whim I did a websearch and to my utter delight discovered that the show Eerie, Indiana is on DVD! And a copy is now winging its way to me! Come here, little DVD, come here!

ETA: Y'all will be happy to know the cat just gave my elbow a thorough wash.