Have I ever mentioned how much I like the buffet breakfast at the Hunt Valley Marriott? I haven’t? Well, I do<\/i>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
What’s on tap for today? Well, that’s just it–the morning’s looking rather dull and lifeless, and the things I want to see and do aren’t until late in the day.<\/p>\n
Shore Leave has a traditional bit of programming, Mystery Trekkie Theatre, in which Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Bob Greenberger play like Mike and the Bots and skewer an episode of Star Trek<\/i>. (Last year, they didn’t do Trek<\/i>, though–they found a much<\/i> better target, William Shatner’s pre-Trek<\/i> television pilot, Alexander the Great<\/i>. Bad television, excellent skewer target. ;)) In years past, Mystery Trekkie has been the first thing Sunday morning. This year? It’s what closes out the convention Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Let me say… Yuck. See, I’ve a long drive back to Raleigh, and I’m back at work Monday morning, nine o’clock. Mystery Trekkie won’t be finished until 7:30 or so, putting me out of Hunt Valley around 8, factor in a six-plus hour trip, and I’ll probably be on fumes Monday morning. Not ideal by any means. But we do what we must.<\/p>\n
As for the rest of the day, I’m not sure what I’ll be doing. I see some panels that interest me, but not greatly. I see some things that I might want to do. Saturday had a fantastic schedule, today’s schedule is somewhat less than that. Sigh.<\/p>\n
I see on the schedule a panel with a topic that speaks to the way in which fandoms can engage in willful self-delusion–“I Believe in Snape.” Obviously, this is a panel by and for people who believe that Severius Snape isn’t the cold-blooded bastard he so clearly is in the Harry Potter novels, who believe that somewhere deep down in that callous heart of his Snape is actually a nice guy. He’s not, people. Just deal.<\/p>\n
Sorry, it needed to be said. We return you to your previously scheduled entry.<\/p>\n
Well, once the day is done and I’m on the road, headed back to Raleigh another Shore Leave<\/a> bites the dust.<\/p>\n Let me just say this and put it out there–I’m absolutely looking forward to next year when I can autograph copies of Constellations<\/i> and have people tell me that they liked (or hated, which some people will) “Make-Believe.” Of course, if I go to Farpoint<\/a> in February (as I did this February past), I don’t need to wait until next July to get feedback on my story. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have I ever mentioned how much I like the buffet breakfast at the Hunt Valley Marriott? I haven’t? Well, I do. \ud83d\ude09 What’s on tap for today? Well, that’s just it–the morning’s looking rather dull and lifeless, and the things I want to see and do aren’t until late in the day. Shore Leave hasContinue reading “On Shore Leave 2006, Day Three”<\/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":[30],"tags":[51,160],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-fandom","tag-shore-leave","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}