This is all uncharacteristically exciting, for my life

Eastercon was fun!  Even for one day!  I met so many amazing people.  It all went by far too quickly.  Huge congratulations to aliettedb  and ianmcdonald  for their BSFA wins!  I loved hanging with rcloenen_ruiz , too and I finally got to meet mevennen!  And maeve_the_red !  And la_marquise_de_ !  You LJ peeps are all so cool.  I wish I could get out more.  

Thank you, fjm  and rcloenen_ruiz  who were in the audience at my reading.  I hope the reason there was nobody else there for me was that people didn't know about it, rather than that I am universally hated.  I'm going to go with 'didn't know about it' out of generosity to myself and others.  I was invited at the last minute to be on 'Women Invisible' but by that point I was a bit peeved with my invisibility.  So I guess you could imagine me there, only invisible :-)

I met lots of other people and managed to space Gareth Jones when he introduced himself.  I told you, I'm terrible with names.  Figured it out about ten minutes after we walked away from each other.  Sorry, Gareth, and thanks for that review, which I greatly appreciate.

I have returned to masses of waiting work.  Have a maths tutorial tonight for which I am NOT prepared.  Evidently I did a lot of stuff before Easter break but going over it now it's all gibberish, so it hasn't set in my memory.  In a few more weeks we start differential equations so I don't know wtf I'm going to do.  Also chemistry.  The low-level OU stuff isn't difficult, but it's a lot of work and my rhythm's all messed up with the kids being home from school for over two weeks.  And the damned royal weeding on Friday--I do not need that!  I need my kids to be in prison school. 

I've got the clobber for the Clarke thanks to the suggestion of brownnicky to try Asos.  They have little catwalk videos for all the dresses.  Looking at the models without much hope, I glumly ordered three.  Startlingly, two of them looked good (the third made me look like a giant bat) but of the two, one was super-short and rather alarmingly see-through. I opted for the (slightly) more dignified alternative.  The whole process took maybe an hour and I never had to leave my house!  And it was cheap.  Asos FTW!  Many thanks to my friends who helped me get over my shopping phobia.

Tomorrow is going to be crazy.  Leaving here noon-ish.  Hoping to see fastfwd  before hand.  We have a wonderful babysitter coming and she can stay late, so we are doing to try to hit some of the afterparty.  Everyone I saw at Easteron said 'See you at the Clarkes,' and I know there were a lot of people I didn't see who will be there, so I guess it's going to be pretty crowded!  I can honestly say I will not mind not-winning at all, because it will be so exciting to be going out at night and seeing people and being part of the scene.  And I'm sure Lightborn has enjoyed its time on the shortlist very much. 

ETA: I am probably forgetting loads of people from LJ but I just have to add that suzannemcleod  gave us these supercool sparkly Spellcrackers.com pencils.  Another time I will post up the drawings that Lauren Beukes did to entertain my four-year-old so I could talk to Tom Hunter.  Lauren is terrifically fierce and formidable, of course, but also incredibly kind.  One of the most charismatic people I've met in a long while.