Re: Worldcon

[hmpf]

It looks like I might only make it there for the first three days - or not at all. I won't be able to get all the necessary days off work, so now I need to find a return ticket for the 17th, which may be impossible. If I can find one, I'll be at the con from 14th through 16th of August. If I can't... well, I dunno. Can you resell Worldcon tix?

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[beccatoria]

Aww, man I'm really sorry to hear that. :( At least you'll get to be there some? I'm probably not going to be able to last minute bus it down to London to see you though. I have to work the Thursday and Friday and you're going on the Saturday. BOOO. Will skype you again soonish though!

[hmpf]

If I'm available Saturday, though? Does that change things? (See post I just made for more.) I need to take another look at the programme and identify possible lacunae throughout the day... tomorrow, though. Too tired tonight. Also, Skype sounds great.

Also, I forgot to download your stuff, arrrrgh. I keep forgetting these online file locker thingies have an expiration date. I suck.

[beccatoria]

That's my mediafire account, so there shouldn't be an expiration date on them. Just let me know when/if you want more. :)

Saturday MIGHT change things, but looking into costs of travel, etc., at short notice the coach tickets are higher and for various complicated and boringly realworld reasons I'm super broke this month. So I'm not actually sure I could hop on a coach this month. So I wouldn't change your travel plans to accommodate me. But on the offchance of supercheap coach tickets, like, are you going to be around on the Saturday anyway? At what times? Cus that's the other consideration - it's a three or four hour each way trip so if I just came down for the day I wouldn't be there for so long. DISTANCE SUCKS is what I'm saying.

When are you likely to be around next week for Skyping - I'm not sure what kind of work schedule you have...

Distance does, indeed, suck mightily. Also, money.

[hmpf]

(Can you say "sixteen-hour coach trip"? Urgh, what am I doing to my poor body for fandom...)

Yes, I'll be in London for the whole con now, i.e. Aug. 13-18. And I'll have to go and find food sometimes anyway, in between the more "must-see" program items, so I should be able to manage to leave the con occasionally ;-) (though obviously I NEED to catch the Stross reading on Saturday, because I'm having *serious*, sustained Laundry cravings and he *might* read from the next book there, lol. Addiction; it's tough, yo.)

But yeah, the whole travel thing is pretty impractical, so I completely understand if you can't make it etc.

I have a completely weird work schedule - it's different all the time, basically. This week, I'm working Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; also Monday next week. I'm mostly working day shifts this month, though, so I should be available some evenings. I may be busy with all kinds of non-work shit some of the time, though. You could just check in on Skype and ask me if I'm busy, though? I'm basically always on Skype when I'm online (ignore the "away/busy" sign - it lies. Well, sometimes it's true, but mostly I just forget to change it to "available" all the time.)