Fannish meetings

It's been a fannishly great weekend so far.

Friday night there was a meeting with temaris, thermidor, who were, as always, great company. In addition, I met the delightful uschickens, who had us cracking up with her description of the infamous colour-coded Excel spreadsheet that is to be used to plan their sightseeing when a bunch of friends come to London to visit her. It was also a joy to hear Thermidor and uschickens riffing in fine old US southern genteel style. Beautifully done and worth the admission fee *g* alone. Even if when I arrived they had neither a chair for me, nor (much, much worse) a glass of wine. Explanation was, 'But you arrived earlier than you said.' Er, yes and this is a bad thing because...? Answers on a postcard to Mandragora at...

Yesterday I experienced the Star Trek Adventure in the company of olympia_m, who I also met for the first time. And what a joy that was. Incisive, intelligent, opinionated *g*, my type of gal. The Exhibition/Adventure itself was fun, although I think rather overpriced at £17.50. However, definitely a place to see for Trek geeks. I have to classify myself amongst the geek fraternity after taking a test on my ST knowledge and scoring 100%, thus attaining the rank of captain. Ahem. Yes, well.

There was much stuff from TNG, DS9 and Enterprise, also ST:Nemesis, which has some particularly great props on show. Also saw again the original Enterprise bridge *sigh*, which I had already seen at the ST exhibition at the Science Museum a few years ago. But it was a joy to see it again.

The actual Adventure, set in the engineering room, turbolift and bridge of the Enterprise D was a blast, even if it was over all to soon and you weren't allowed enough time to linger to check out the sets.

Oh yeah, the actors on Trek are (mostly) impossibly skinny. Frighteningly so. Seven of Nine, for example... The woman simply cannot eat.

Then we went to meet stageira, who was a tremendous amount of fun, despite having a rotten cold. Self-deprecatingly witty, I enjoyed her enthusiasm muchly, even as I said 'not going there' to Mettalica slash. I mean, no *shudder*. Nice try, though *g*. Also, my blood boiled when I realised that she'd set up the Sentinel virtual season but received no recognition for her efforts. Blinkered much?

Left both evenings with the definite intention to do it again soon. Hmm, maybe try to organise a bigger get-together of people in the London area, as well.

Sekrit message to alsoa. You were missed. Both times.

Now, off to the Aztec Exhibition. Non-fannish event this time.

Edited to add: Oh yeah, I bought a tribble. A tribble that giggles and purrs. It's meant to be a friend's birthday present but I dunno whether he'll actually ever receive it...

Aztecs ahoy

The Aztec Exhibition was superb and is highly recommended. Knackering, though. I picked-up an audio guide and had to concentrate heavily, as well as trying to squeeze my way through the crowds.

It was very well-designed, though. The rooms themselves were decorated in an Aztec theme and there was marvellous exhibit after exhibit after exhibit, some of which were amazingly rare and precious. At the end of it we were all exhausted, not surprising after two and a half hours of intense concentration.

I met up with a group of friends for lunch beforehand in a lovely French restaurant called Boudin Blanc in Shepherds Market. thermidor, you would love it! LMK if you're interested in a trip there some time. All of those lunching agreed that it was just as good as a Conran restaurant, but rather cheaper.

And then back home to sort out some chores, only to discover that just as I'd suspected before I went out, yes, my fridge really has packed up on me. Sigh.

So, tomorrow at some point I am going to have to buy a new one, on the basis that the existing fridge is 10 years old and therefore really not worth repairing. I just hope that they can deliver soon, otherwise I'm in trouble foodwise as I have no way of keeping food cool.

Bugger!