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ellenkushner ([personal profile] ellenkushner) wrote2011-01-18 09:25 pm

I'm back!

Had a grand old time at Arisia this weekend.  All my fans seem to be amazingly well-dressed!  If you were one of them, say Hi - or better yet, post a photo.  Friday night's "town meeting" for Interstitial Arts Foundation was full of people with wonderful ideas, which were seriously discussed by the IAF board on Sunday at our all-day meeting (which none of us would have survived without the spectacular hosting - and baking - of Wendy Ellertson & her husband, Jon). Crammed in a few sightings of old local friends, as well:  particularly enjoyed putting on Unicorn hood & prancing with young Ursula Link Grant (who enjoyed bopping the unicorn on the nose) . . . and visiting Laurie Marks & Deb Mensinger.  Oh, my.  Deb is out of the hospital, recuperating at home from her Jan. 5 Liver Transplant. Her brother was a donor - and his ability to fly back & forth for testing and its various expenses was due entirely to YOU, my dears! It really is like a fairy tale:  for the first time in over 12 years, Deb is free of porphyria symptoms.  She's lucid and clear-minded (if unnaturally cheerful - hey, they give you plenty of painkillers when they've cut you open like that: I got to see the humongous scar, with the staples still in) . . . . I do hope that she makes a full recovery, and that Laurie can stop being her devoted nurse and go back to writing novels soon!

A lovely ride home on Amtrak, and then today I collapsed utterly.  Funny:  I thought I was made of stronger stuff.  But, as Delia says, it's what comes of having no Dimmer Switch.
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)

[personal profile] redbird 2011-01-19 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for the update on Deb Mensinger.

hi!

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
i'm your fan! i meant to come to more of your stuffs but i was sick for a lot of the weekend, and at my artist/author table for a lot of the time i did manage to be vertical. but i lent you a pen and got your autograph!

here's a blurry pic of me and my fellow fan and cosplayer [livejournal.com profile] pywaket:

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i'm glad you came, it was great to hear you speak at the panel on heroines' journeys. and waket is a long-time fan of your radio show, so he was really jazzed as well :) squee! :)
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[identity profile] rikibeth.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Just wanted to say that my offspring was thoroughly charmed by you signing the copy of Swordspoint that, between the two of us, we've read nearly to tatters. Thank you!

Delia's comment

(Anonymous) 2011-01-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"No dimmer switch". . .is a perfect description of you and several other friends of mine. I play to use it, with attribution.

--Jane (Yolen)

[identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com 2011-01-20 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
So glad to hear you actually saw Deb! I was thinking about them while at the con.

It was also lovely to be on a couple of panels with you. And the Ethiopian food was good, but you were totally right about the time, and I missed "The Heroine's Journey."