Wrapping things up here in NH

[machshefa]

Hi everybody,

It's been a wonderful four days here in NH. The con was lovely, laid-back and filled with fantastic people (old friends and new ones, too). We had a marvelous time talking, catching up, debating HP and discussing writing. I can't think of anything we missed apart from having even MORE time to catch up one on one (is there ever enough time?). The hotel staff was helpful and worked so hard to make our stay easy. Kudos to them and to the con organizers (this was their first time out -- an amazing accomplishment!)

Friday morning programming was wonderful fun, starting with logospilgrim's Snape presentation, followed by the roundtable on writing process (with Snape as our focal point) led by me, dickgloucester , bethbethbeth , and lariopefic . What amazing company to be in whilst discussing writing (and our favorite Potions Master). The room was full and the discussion was thoughtful and honest. It was amazing. Thank you to everybody who attended. :)

The TPP fic readings were wonderful as well (despite the tech fail around my attempt to video record them and post them for hpcon_envy . Best not to discuss the numerous level of tech/machshefa fail around that whole effort.)

Saturday found us sleeping in (yay!) and then participating in "Family Feud." Thanks to dixiebell , qui_quae_quod and sbrande  for inviting us (me and Dicky) to participate on team "The House of Death Eaters". We rocked! (Also, we froze, but unfroze enough to win our round before bowing out b/c we didn't want to play the whole tournament... ack. We had other Muggles to Crucio, y'know?).  We went to juniperus  and amydmartin 's fantastic presentation on "Unforgivables" and then hung around some more to talk, talk, talk. :)

Sat. night was the ball, which was great fun, and then we attempted to re-record the stories that hadn't taped the night before (I thought I had four of them, but it turns out that all of them got messed up... *sigh). What was nice about that was that some people had left early the prior night b/c there was a Burlesque show to attend, so people who didn't get to hear the second half of the readings had a second chance. *squishes them and thanks them for coming to listen* So even though the recording (again) didn't work, we had an encore of fic reading. :)

Sunday brunch was fun. Lots of squeeing and laughing and a bit of fangirling. :) And then a group of us went to Salem to walk around the cobblestone streets and into the quaint and magical shops... getting Tarot readings and just generally exploring. alabastard  (who had just arrived home himself) joined us and it was lovely to spend some relaxed time with him *hugs him*.

And then we finished the evening quite late with dinner together. Wonderful day.

Today is slow-moving and lovely. I head to the airport later this afternoon. I hope the airport isn't insane.

I have very few pictures. Can't wait to see others' shots when they go up. Yay!

*hugs and love to you all

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

*kidnaps Machshefa and takes her back to Europe with me*

[sc010f.livejournal.com]

*hugs, hugs, hugs*

ANd you took time to read the AFoD!!! *squishes you madly*

I'm so glad you had a good time, dearest!

[bluestocking79.livejournal.com]

~hugs you~

It sounds like a truly wonderful weekend, and I'm so glad that you all got to enjoy it! I look forward to seeing the pictures and hearing more stories. That writing panel alone sounds like an absolute dream--what a privilege to hear all of you lead a discussion on it. :D

You've been missed. ~more hugs~ Have a safe trip back!

[pyjamapants.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh. The crucioing. Is that why my throat hurts?

[lady-rhian.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you all had a blessed time. Joy just permeates the posts!

~hugs you~ Hope you get home safe.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

It was so wonderful to finally meet you! And I enjoyed the roundtable very much - kudos to you and dicky and lariope and beth for running such an excellent event. My mysterious sshg_exchange recipient is already thanking you for all the help working out voices and such. ;)

Have a safe trip home!

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

It was so wonderful to finally meet you! I'm glad you had a good time as well, and I'm sorry the tech was frustrating you so much. Stupid computer. *glares at it* Wish we could've had more time to talk, but that's always the way of it at con.

[sbrande.livejournal.com]

Loves you babe, and thanks you for taking the time out of your schedule to play with us, it was very much appreciated.

Glad I got to see you again.

love Sonia :)

[m-mcgonagall-65.livejournal.com]

It was lovely seeing you! The fanfic discussion and the Friday night reading were certainly highlights of the weekend. I hope your trip home was a good one.

[alabastardragon.livejournal.com]

Im sad that we never got a chance to chat. :-( Hopefully next time?

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

It sounds like such a wonderful time, and the Snape panel makes me wish I had just told my students we'd have no final exam and then hopped a NH-bound plane.

I hope you'll post links to the pictures if you think their posters won't mind random people looking at them.

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

*curls up in suitcase

<3

Miss you already.

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

We did, twice! Out loud reading. It worked great to do it that way.

Con was amazing. Missed you there, though.

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

It was marvelous in so many ways. I am looking forward to pictures, too. ;) I only have the ones I tweeted and they're not on my phone for some reason. Gotta find them.

The writing panel was AMAZING. It was a privilege to be part of that group.

Thank you for holding down the fort! I'm sorry I couldn't do more.

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a stray curse, perhaps?

*sends soothing solutions

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

It was marvelous. :)

I'm home!

*hugs you

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

It was such a pleasure to meet you, too! I'm delighted that you enjoyed the roundtable. We had a blast doing it! I can't wait to see what you do for the exchange! Yay!

I hope your trip home was smooth. Mine was, thankfully. :)

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

It was great to meet you! Yay! I wish we'd have had more time, too. Next time, I hope... And online, too. :)

*hugs

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

<3

It was great fun! Thank you for inviting us. How was your haunted hotel?

:)

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

Yay! We had so much fun with the panel discussion. I'm so glad people enjoyed it!

The readings were great. I'm so disappointed that I am, apparently, a technological menace, though. Ah, well.

Glad you got home smoothly. Mine was surprisingly smooth given the possibility of weird air travel today.

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

*hugs you

Me, too...

I had hoped that we might be able to catch up in Salem, but I can understand how important it was to rest. It was a really intense weekend! I'm glad I saw you... next time, let's make a point to sit down and talk.

*hugs you again

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

OMG, it would have been so good to have you there! I need to dig up the pictures I took and tweeted and then track down other peoples' pictures! LOL. I have none. *hangs head

[sbrande.livejournal.com]

Spooky, but didn't see a thing and believe me we tried!

loves you, Sonia :)

[sc010f.livejournal.com]

Brave lady!

<3<3

Will you be around tonight?

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Screw tweets. Post on a image archive so we can see them. =)

[machshefa.livejournal.com]

:)

I will. I can't find them on my phone which is what I used to take and tweet them -- that's what I meant. I need to track down the twitter image and then repost.

I'm also going to track down every image of myself and eliminate it and become the fangurl of mystery. ;)

Bwahahaha.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Good Luck at that- you've been had on several cameras..

I think I posted the ones of you from infinitus, if not I can mail them too.