did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?

And I feel like crap. But in a good way, since it is due to sleep deprivation and alcohol consumption and excessive squeeeing.

Everything went pretty well at HLDU5. Con reports, photos and some serious gossip will be posted when I'm not passing out (and once I've got them developed, in the case of the photos *g*).

From the Bureau of Meteorology:

BRISBANE METROPOLITAN AREA
Mostly fine, just a brief shower or two. Moderate to fresh S to SE winds.
Brisbane for Wednesday ... MIN 14 MAX 23
Bayside for Wednesday ... MIN 13 MAX 23
UV INDEX - 5 [Moderate]
Thursday ... Fine. MIN 14 MAX 24
Friday ... Fine. MIN 14 MAX 24
Saturday ... Fine. MIN 14 MAX 24

Eeeek!

I was so bored at work, that I started figuring out what trains calemiri and I can take out to the airport. She, hnix and sinbrat and I are all taking the same flight up, conveniently :)

And now I'm starting to plan what I need to take with me *g*.

If anyone is thinking of attending this and hasn't booked their hotel room yet, they need to do it soon. The hotel will not be holding rooms for the con anymore, and there is a large conference taking place that weekend (which is why the rooms held for the con are being released).

Turns out I will be doing stuff for the vidshow at the HLDU con in May (offered a while back), so yeah, don't think I should be offering to do much for Sinpozium.

Last year's Sinpozium
There were benefits to the hotel, including - it was available, comfy beds to sleep on, close to transport, close to shops and eating places.

There were also some downsides to it (IMO) - cost (not just for the room, which for 3 days wasn't bad, but the cost of staying there and higher cost of food cause eating out), having to organise a/v equipment hire, and not being as relaxed about stuff (cause we're in hotel, not private location). On the organising side, there were difficulties with bookings cause of people not committing and not paying early. On top of this, I found the non-isolated nature of the location led to people spending a lot of time away from the hotel. This made this con feel more cliquey, and led to people missing stuff cause it happened while they were absent. In my view, this was a downside. The solution to this would seem to be to have a more organised program, but a) that's not what Sinpoz has been about, b) we wouldn't stick to it anyway and c)well, I have issues with doing a program because of someone, which isn't really relevant.

But ultimately, none of this is relevant if enough people want to do Sinpoz this year, and want it in the hotel. Probably need to do a couple of polls through ASA or Sinpoz, on who is interested, what time of year, and whether they are willing to pay for hotel (or if someone has a house or other location they want to volunteer).

I really need to organise registration payment, airline ticket (see if I can get it freq flyers) and hotel room. Everyone else seems to have their act together about the hotel rooms, ooops. Wonder if we can request rooms on the same floor, even if they're booked under diff names. Probably not. Shame, cause a Floor o' Slashers would be fun :)

I've been not really been thinking about this, likely cause not knowing what I'll be doing workwise makes it tricky to plan. But I'd like to go up Thursday morning, and come back Monday. Which would be 3 days off from whatever job I'll hopefully have by then, which shouldn't be too bad. At worst, hopefully I'd be able to get the Friday off, and would fly up Thursday night and back Sunday night, like calemiri and I did the first year.

According to what he told his official website, Peter Wingfield has been cast in a small role in X-Men 2, as a henchman to the villain.

And Elizabeth Gracen is in the July 2nd episode of "Charmed".