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... oh wow, was it ever *brilliant*! I've had so little sleep during the past week, and am still running high on giddy excitement, with random goofy grinning every time I remember details. It was amazingly done from the opening night to the programming to the *breathtaking* Yule Ball and I'm still in awe of everybody who's had a hand in organising it. Wow. The sheer amount of work and effort and passion that went into it!
Seeing
chthonya and
lazy_neutrino again was just amazing, as was meeting all those wonderful people from my f-list and some I've never even encountered online before.
Highlights - too many to count, really: watching
chthonya driving a bulky van through London traffic like a pro, being huggled by
annephoenix at reception, squeeing over meeting people like
waterbird,
catsintheattic,
jaelle_n_gilla and omg,
mijan all through the opening night,
waterbird's Ron/Lucius gift, seeing
rowan_r's Revenge Tragedy performed, the Darkfic and
chthonya's Lucius panels on Friday, lunch with
parlophone,
painless_j and
leni_jess, breakfasts with
fluffyllama,
trobadora and
lazy_neutrino (so *sorry* I didn't catch you again to say good-bye, love), holding DH in my hands at 1.30am at the Waterstones, reading it together with
chthonya amidst giggling, moaning and bursting into tears, THE BOOK itself (ohmyeffinggods!), the Yule Ball with its amazing decoration and costumes and ceilidh music, Itchquidd in the park (damn the mosquitoes, every one of them but was it *ever* fun), watching smut-art in progress during the picnic (and working up the nerve to talk to
dementordelta, ohgods, I'm such a fangirl), drinks and chat with
riibu afterwards, and a *wonderful* chilling-out night with
annephoenix,
dracos_doll and
chthonya. And of course my copy of DH with all the signatures :).
And tons more people whom I was so happy to meet, if way too shortly -
ariadneelda,
blue_braces,
dark0feenix,
dracofiend,
snakeling,
son_of_darkness,
yamato__ishida (and Harry!),
aunty_marion,
dacro,
gatewaygirl,
melusinahp (not remotely enough time, but... wow!),
sulky_rhino and
tien_riu! With apologies to everyone I failed to mention, but whoever knows me in real life will be aware that being braindead is not an occasional condition of mine, but a way of life :).
Things that reduced me to tears: the Yule Ball ticket gift from
annephoenix (who is, in person, even more incredibly amazing than she's online!), the beautiful Ron-and-Lucius bookmarks from Waterbird, having to go home again.
Things learned: that I love fandomers (even more than I'd already thought), lots about HP from the panels, the end of canon, and that I'll never be cut out to be a proper shipper ;).
Regrets: that it's over already, that I only just managed to see
amanuensis1,
moshes and
magic_at_mungos for a second, and never managed to meet
fleshdress and a few others. The LJ scare just when everybody was occupied with other things. And again, that it's over... Oh, and a little bit that canon is over now (but definitely not *how* it ended, well, apart from one teensy little bit that nobody liked anyhow, *g*).
I've met *so* many brilliant people I had not even *time* to be a scaredy-cat, how cool is *that*??? And I got to visit the National Gallery again on Tuesday, after navigating the tube without any messups.
There will be a by now totally obsolete post on DH tomorrow (done by everybody and their housecat already, so don't expect much, ok!).
Again - it was *so* wonderful!
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Highlights - too many to count, really: watching
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And tons more people whom I was so happy to meet, if way too shortly -
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Things that reduced me to tears: the Yule Ball ticket gift from
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Things learned: that I love fandomers (even more than I'd already thought), lots about HP from the panels, the end of canon, and that I'll never be cut out to be a proper shipper ;).
Regrets: that it's over already, that I only just managed to see
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I've met *so* many brilliant people I had not even *time* to be a scaredy-cat, how cool is *that*??? And I got to visit the National Gallery again on Tuesday, after navigating the tube without any messups.
There will be a by now totally obsolete post on DH tomorrow (done by everybody and their housecat already, so don't expect much, ok!).
Again - it was *so* wonderful!