Norwescon Friday.

Went to the panel on being a writer and blogging. It was somewhat entertaining, although it didn't tell me much that I didn't already know.

Mar 21: Alexander James Adams

Went to the Alexander James Adams concert, which has to be the strangest experience I've been to in a while. For the longest time I wasn't dealing with the idea that Heather was gone and that someone strange had taken her place. My initial reaction is that Heather really is gone, and in a sad, strange way, but also that there's some clown wandering around doing covers of her work... poorly.

As the concert evolved, however, he got better. He got into the groove of what he was singing, did a pretty good job especially with his new stuff, and for the most part was convincing enough as a talented filk singer to keep up all going. Kouryou-chan thought he was effective enough. And although i've been rather... twitchy... about the very idea of Heather going trans, Alex does make a pretty damn good-looking man.

I had a pretty good lunch with fallenpegasus, but other than the one panel on writing and blogging I didn't get to any others. A bit of a shame, but not much to be done. Omaha wanted to go to a burlesque show, so I was set down watching over Kouryou-chan for most of the evening. Not that I mind; we went to the dance, where we both overheated in our winter garb, then spent a few minutes at hospitality. We decided that was too crowded and noisy so we found a quiet nook. Kouryou-chan played a game on Omaha's computer while I read more of Her Majesty's Dragon, a so-so mash-up of McCaffrey dragons and Napoleonic men o' war maneuvering that seems simultaneously well-done and terribly ham-handed. I'm not sure how Novik pulls that off.