disturbing dreams and extrovert scheduling

[thanate]

I woke up shortly after one this morning from a dream in which I was a middle aged lady in a bridge club where we'd lost our fourth and two of us were attempting to get the third, who was severely mentally unstable and off her meds, up the hill to the hospital. Not only did this take all night, but it involved climbing though brush and wandering what seemed like miles of yellow-lit academic-style corridors, and at one point the unstable woman somehow managed to get hold of a razor blade and hack off her hand (though it didn't bleed, so I'm not sure what was up with that.) I was trying to explain this to a nurse (as well as the fact that no, we didn't have cell phones, so we couldn't have dialed 911) when I had to wake myself up so I could be disturbed by it. My previous and subsequent dreams were somewhat less ghastly, but equally filled with the sense of running about trying to solve bizarre problems that only got more complicated.

Today it rained, which was lovely, but which also made most of the things on my to-do list slightly problematic. (I prefer not to buy wood to make bookshelves with and then carry it through a downpour.) But I have puttered somewhat usefully, and put away some of the things that needed homes, and sewn a couple more strips of quilt topper, and these things are useful, too. And then the internet was filled with ghastly things, and so I got cookies as well as milk and toilet paper at the grocery store. (Cookies are not the approved method of dealing with the world having issues, but I have been desirous of much sugar for the last week or so. Possibly this is related to the nasty cold grauwulf brought home from work, which so far I've managed not to get. And I've been eating healthy things, too, just it's very much a case of eating a large bowl of stew and *then* all the brownies in the house.)

So, let's see... I've been contemplating daytripping Capclave, most likely on Saturday-- is anyone else I know likely to be there? I think Scott Andrews (of BCS) said he was going to be there, but I don't think I've heard about anyone else who, er, knows me by name. (Because at this point I know all sorts of people who have no idea who I am...)

Also contemplating Philcon, and as yet undecided as to whether I want to pick a day or actually (gasp) get a hotel room. Again, is anyone else planning to be there?

And then heuchera tells me that Lois McMaster Bujold is doing a reading on November 17th at the B&N in Willow Grove, PA, which I've tentatively agreed to come up & join her for. I think I even remember how to get into the parking lot. (That end of Willow Grove mall is weird & complicated.)

And then I need to schedule a thing or two that we're hosting, because otherwise this living room will never get all the way cleaned up.

Comments

[acwise.livejournal.com]

I won't make it to Capclave this year, unfortunately, but I do plan to be at Philcon!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Cool! Do you know if you & the other locals are planning on daytripping or not?

[acwise.livejournal.com]

I haven't figured that part out yet. Last year, I stayed in a hotel (not the con hotel, but one nearby). The idea of a hotel certainly appeals to my laziness, but not necessarily my finances...