fajrdrako | Festivus Celebration... (Reply)

We had a party at work. It turned out to be a good one; I wasn't feeling terribly sociable, but there were a lot of people to talk to, an many of them were interesting. There was live music, which was good, and my coworkers had put a lot of effort into decorating the upper foyer. I drank spiked eggnog - I'm not used to that. The rum was in honour of Captain Jack Sparrow.

Besides talk about the theatre, and gossip, and discussion of tax assessments - the woman who owns a castle thinks her taxes are excessive, and she may be right - I even had some interesting fannish talk with Caroline, who was at San Diego Comic Con last summer. I wish I'd been with her! She taped the talk given by Billy Boyd. Funny how we're both heavily into media fandom but our paths seldom cross; we go to different conventions at different times and put our efforts into different areas even when we follow the same movies or shows. She was asking me about Starsky and Hutch fandom, in which I'm hardly an expert. She's into getting autographs. I'd like to see her collection, but I've neither the patience or the interest in collecting autographs myself - or, put differently, I have all the ones I really want. (Dorothy Dunnett, Neil Gaiman, Guy Gavriel Kay, Frank Miller, Lois McMaster Bujold, Patrick Stewart... for starters.)

I managed to get quite a bit of Christmas shopping done too - and scored a minor coup - and feel pretty good about the day.