{"id":2447,"date":"2009-07-12T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2009-07-12T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:56:06","slug":"on-shore-leave-2009-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"On Shore Leave 2009, The Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I am home.<\/p>\n<p>And I am massively, <i>monstrously<\/i> exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>So I am going to crash.  <i>Torchwood<\/i> can wait.  Given what I&#8217;ve heard about <i>Day Five<\/i>, I am not in the mental or emotional state right now to process that.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, that sounds weird.  Or possibly even bad.  When it&#8217;s neither.  I&#8217;m just exhausted, and given the direction <i>Torchwood<\/i> is going, trying to watch it now would not be good.<\/p>\n<p>That makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p>I met a <i>bunch<\/i> of people this year.  I did several panels.  I spent <i>way<\/i> too much time in the bar.  But hey, it&#8217;s what writers do at sci-fi conventions. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I think this may be the first convention where I bought absolutely <i>nothing<\/i> in the Dealer&#8217;s Room.  But strangely enough, I didn&#8217;t even <i>go<\/i> into the Dealer&#8217;s Room until this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I did, in fact, have an omelet and a Belgian waffle for breakfast on Saturday.  Sunday&#8217;s breakfast was an omelet and apple-stuffed pancakes.  The breakfast buffet is a little pricey, but it&#8217;s a Shore Leave tradition with me.<\/p>\n<p>And I told many and sundry the story of the divine retribution I called down a few years ago upon the person who dared to infringe upon my Shore Leave breakfast routine.  (The tale is funnier the more I&#8217;ve had to drink, I should mention.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, I shouted down some bad filkers.  It had to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Also, snorting vodka out the nose fucking <i>hurts<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I lost my wallet.  Fortunately, it was found.  But that was a harrowing hour.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  Bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I am home. And I am massively, monstrously exhausted. So I am going to crash. Torchwood can wait. Given what I&#8217;ve heard about Day Five, I am not in the mental or emotional state right now to process that. Wait, that sounds weird. Or possibly even bad. When it&#8217;s neither. I&#8217;m just exhausted, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2447\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Shore Leave 2009, The Aftermath&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-shore-leave","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}