Sunday...

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• Dim Sum with gamergrrl at the Yangtze restaurant on Somerset at Cambridge. Delicious. Then we went back to Can-Con.
  
  
• Went to a panel on gender issues in Speculative fiction, with people I like and admire on the panel: Shelley Rabinovitch, Julie Czerneda, J.M. Frey, and Janet Hetherington. There was much participation from the audience, took, and all of it interesting and intelligent - for all it kept veering off into orientation issues, which interest me too, so I didn't mind.
  
  
• Went to J.M.Frey's reading of a scene from Triptych - which was fascinating, now I want to read that book - and from a short story she will have coming out next year in an undisclosed publication.
  
  I was interested in Triptych already, because Frey said that the poly/bi community had received it well - I believe it features aliens who are not sexually dimorphic, hetersosexual, or monogamous. Then on the strength of the passage she read, I'd have gone and bought it in the dealers room on the spot, except that the dealer was already sold old. There goes my chance to get it autographed by the author, which I rather like to do. Ah well. I'll put it on my Amazon wishlist.
  
  
• Had a cup of coffee and half a salad with Claire at Rockin' Johnny's. Talked mostly about books.
  
  
• Went to the closing ceremonies. Everyone there seems to have enjoyed the con very much - it was a bit of a love-fest. Which was great. The rapport between guests, attendees, Con-Com and staff really did seem good. It was a small but intelligent con.
  
  
• I went home feeling all fired up about writing, and I wanted to study French. Shortly after that, I started to feel extremely dizzy and unwell. I have no idea why. Lay down for a while with a book. Eventually felt better, but got nothing done.
  
  Kind of demoralizing.