Arisia day 1, and a face from Bell

[mindstalk]

Arrived, Red-Silver lines, regged, got organized. They're good with the maps and handy schedules to circle things in, much better organized than say A-Cen. Went to part of a taboos in SF panel, with Barry Longyear and others (should I know that name?), I was attending to the schedule more than them. Popped into contra, early filk, then sat in on "so, your first Arisia?" which taught me some things, like what a Con Suite was. (24 hour hang-out lounge.

You can totally tell, visually, that you're among a bunch of geeks. Even before costumes show up. T-shirts and glasses and hairstyles and beards.

Went back to Best of Filk, which had gotten past set-up, and heard some nice songs. Watched the end of contra. Bought some food, took it to the con lounge, where I met a Dutch fan and her 8 year old daughter, both face-painted. From the Netherlands, probably lives in the US now, probably not Boston. The daughter rubbed my head when they left.

Pick pass play filk circle, re-met Mark Mandel, sang "Soldier Ask Not" and "Three Rings for the Elven-kings". I managed to forget the words to the latter in the clinch, very embarrassing, but smartphone came to the rescue. There were multiple math songs, mostly about Aleph-Null.

Then I went over to some Doctor Who audio show with Nyarlathotep, to meet Michael, a guy from my elementary school, last seen at the end of 6th grade, and we caught up. First person from Bell I've seen since running into Jenny in high school, though I've had electronic contact with a couple of the girls, and that mutually silent Facebook friending from a bunch of others. Dropped in on a party Samson had told me about to try to meet his friends, though we were overdressed (pajama party), back to filk, then Michael went to live Rocky Horror and I took the T home while I could. He'd offered a ride, but I figured I didn't want to be up that late.

Doesn't sound like much but 7 hours. I guess welcome panel, filk, suite, and Who/Michael were the bulk of it. So much for all those panels I'd circled!

Oh yeah, and before all this I saw 3 apartments. Hadn't meant to start looking already, but that rental agency I stopped by yesterday talked me into it. Figured I'd at least get some idea what's on the market.

Comments

[lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun:-) how's the job hunt looking?

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I had A Plan. Arrive into short term housing, case neighborhoods, find long-term housing, look for a job. Take things in order, partly for time efficiency and partly for not being in job-mind-mode yet. But as dropping by the rental agency jumped my looking at apartments, so Samson asked for my resume, either for his own hiring or for leads he knows. But otherwise I'm not worrying about it yet. I've got Arisia all weekend, still some areas to check out, and it'd be great if I could find monthly housing finally. I wanted a month, for stability, but a week at a time was all I could find in time.

[februaryfour]

Are you going to settle in Boston, then?