UnConventional

[kerravonsen]

It has just been driven home to me that I really don't go to conventions for the guests, but to see friends -- because I just discovered that Neil Gaiman is in Melbourne, at a convention, this very weekend, and I didn't care. Well, not after the $90-a-day at-the-door day-membership fees, anyway. And the fact that I am so out of touch with local fandom (not having gone to a local con or meeting for years) that anyone I do meet that I happen to recognise, is going to probably ensue with a rather awkward, stilted conversation.

Mind you, if Lois McMaster Bujold had been one of the Guests, that probably would have been worth $90 to me. But considering that I haven't read any of Gaiman's recent work, and haven't been tempted to, either, it would be a waste.

Except that half of me is saying that I'm stupid to turn my back on a local con, considering that I'm no longer going to be jaunting off to overseas cons any more. But, really, the two main things that one can only do at cons are (a) costumes and (b) filking, and Australian cons don't seem to go in for filking anyway.

So instead, I rang up watervole, to wish her a happy anniversary. Now that was money well-spent.