I'm going to miss you, Redemption 15
Feb. 19th, 2015 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI made the decision a while ago that I wasn't travelling to England for Redemption this year, after the disaster of horribleness that was last February. Travelling at this time of year is incredibly stressful due to weather, and while I love Redemption hugely, the "will I get there or not" stress was getting too much for me.
On the one hand, that now seems like a very sensible plan. I would have flown out on Tuesday, when the roads around the province were still a mess and there were threats of weather bombs Tuesday night that could cancel my flights. Not dealing with that stress has been good. This winter has been worse than last year, just by virtue of having the whole of winter take place over a concentrated four week period, and it really would have been awful trying to do the travel.
My back is also still very painful due to Sunday's snow-rain-ice shovelling extravaganza, so the flight would have been very uncomfortable and I probably would have been slower than usual at the con. I would still have had fun, but it would have been harder when I'm dealing with pain and exhaustion from pain. So there's that, too.
I'll be going over in the summer for Nine Worlds instead. I discovered last year how much less stressful it was to travel when the weather isn't universally horrific, and I know that I'll have a ridiculous amount of fun.
But today, I'm watching people depart for Red and discuss what they're doing and generally being all Redemption-happy on Twitter, and I'm feeling sadder than expected. I love Redemption. I love the people and the community and the fun we have. For the first time in ten years, I'm missing out on that.
Have fun, everyone who is going. Have the best Redemption you can. Do all the things, stay up through the night talking, and be excellent to each other.
Hopefully I'll see some of you at Nine Worlds in the summer.
On the one hand, that now seems like a very sensible plan. I would have flown out on Tuesday, when the roads around the province were still a mess and there were threats of weather bombs Tuesday night that could cancel my flights. Not dealing with that stress has been good. This winter has been worse than last year, just by virtue of having the whole of winter take place over a concentrated four week period, and it really would have been awful trying to do the travel.
My back is also still very painful due to Sunday's snow-rain-ice shovelling extravaganza, so the flight would have been very uncomfortable and I probably would have been slower than usual at the con. I would still have had fun, but it would have been harder when I'm dealing with pain and exhaustion from pain. So there's that, too.
I'll be going over in the summer for Nine Worlds instead. I discovered last year how much less stressful it was to travel when the weather isn't universally horrific, and I know that I'll have a ridiculous amount of fun.
But today, I'm watching people depart for Red and discuss what they're doing and generally being all Redemption-happy on Twitter, and I'm feeling sadder than expected. I love Redemption. I love the people and the community and the fun we have. For the first time in ten years, I'm missing out on that.
Have fun, everyone who is going. Have the best Redemption you can. Do all the things, stay up through the night talking, and be excellent to each other.
Hopefully I'll see some of you at Nine Worlds in the summer.
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Date: 2015-02-19 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-19 04:01 pm (UTC)ETA: I am tempted to go over for Nine Worlds, but it's at a really bad time library-wise and I don't want the trip to be so short I spend the entire convention jetlagged. Someday.
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Date: 2015-02-19 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-19 06:42 pm (UTC)I can only imagine how busy libraries are in the summer :-(
My Nine Worlds trip was *supposed* to be at a good time this year, work-wise. I'm glad that I'd already booked the time off, because now my big project has been delayed and will go live while I'm away. For the second year running *headdesk* Summer is supposed to be quiet in code shops. My company appears to have never heard of that rule.
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Date: 2015-02-20 12:05 am (UTC)You should come down to LI Who next year. Or one of the Boston cons. Or I should come up to something. Plenty of good cons in our countries. :)
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Date: 2015-02-25 12:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, I need to start heading out to North American cons :-D I'm hoping to get enough vacation scrounged up for Wincon in October, but that's still uncertain.
In two years, my vacation bumps up to four weeks a year. That's going to make scheduling cons and going to England much, much easier.
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Date: 2015-02-25 12:54 pm (UTC)I went to one Toronto con back in the day, but somehow it seems like my vacation gets eaten up quicker every year.