Love is lovelier, the second time around
Aug. 28th, 2009 09:19 amWell no wrap up last night owing to the BiCon reunion so let's see what I can remember.
Yesterday was pretty bad at work. The place was stiflingly hot so I spent more time fanning myself than I did programming. I also found a centipede in my keyboard. This office, I swear, is alive. I've had more spiders rappel down to my desktop (swiftly followed by a relocation to the bin) that I can count and the centipede incident is just an escalation. No one seemed very surprised.
Althought after work was brilliant. I had a nice surprice from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
miss_amaranth, which I'm pretty sure I have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amuletts to thank for. Then after a (much needed) shower we grabbed the bus to Oxford. Arriving fashionably late we were also the 3rd and 4th people there. I never was one for fashion.
It was great to see everyone again and massive kudos tocheshcat for bringing the whole thing together, even if she does send me the weirdest spam emails. The best bit, I felt, was that the BiCon atmosphere was still very strong in the air. miss_amaranth kept apologising for her lack of filter as she seemed to be trying to find the half-way house between explicit and "we're in public, dear". It was cute. We also had some instant activism, with the formation of bicon_oxford, which is very cool. First point of discussion needs to be "when are we doing this again?"
Highlight of the evening was easily the sharing of Psycho-Ex stories. I'm still waiting onanarchist_nomad's story, apparently it's quite the tale. Also had a weird experience after having miss_amaranth sitting on my legs too long, getting up and promptly losing all feeling in my legs and trying to look as sober as possible as I fell down. Hopefully no one saw.
So, in short, or "TL;DR", as the cool kids say: In the space of a weekend I've gone from knowing no-one in Oxford outside of work to knowing over a dozen awesome people from all over the nearby area :D
Yesterday was pretty bad at work. The place was stiflingly hot so I spent more time fanning myself than I did programming. I also found a centipede in my keyboard. This office, I swear, is alive. I've had more spiders rappel down to my desktop (swiftly followed by a relocation to the bin) that I can count and the centipede incident is just an escalation. No one seemed very surprised.
Althought after work was brilliant. I had a nice surprice from
miss_amaranth, which I'm pretty sure I have amuletts to thank for. Then after a (much needed) shower we grabbed the bus to Oxford. Arriving fashionably late we were also the 3rd and 4th people there. I never was one for fashion.It was great to see everyone again and massive kudos to
cheshcat for bringing the whole thing together, even if she does send me the weirdest spam emails. The best bit, I felt, was that the BiCon atmosphere was still very strong in the air. miss_amaranth kept apologising for her lack of filter as she seemed to be trying to find the half-way house between explicit and "we're in public, dear". It was cute. We also had some instant activism, with the formation of bicon_oxford, which is very cool. First point of discussion needs to be "when are we doing this again?"Highlight of the evening was easily the sharing of Psycho-Ex stories. I'm still waiting on
anarchist_nomad's story, apparently it's quite the tale. Also had a weird experience after having miss_amaranth sitting on my legs too long, getting up and promptly losing all feeling in my legs and trying to look as sober as possible as I fell down. Hopefully no one saw.So, in short, or "TL;DR", as the cool kids say: In the space of a weekend I've gone from knowing no-one in Oxford outside of work to knowing over a dozen awesome people from all over the nearby area :D
