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[kiya]

We seem to have successfully rebooted my cat, and he's now working properly. So that's something.

Went through the PantheaCon schedule and sort of tentatively worked out what things I'd like to attend, barring resolution of conflicts and depending on my mood and capacity. At the moment, I don't have much conflict on major rituals I want to go to -- since I'll be staying at the hotel, I'll be able to get to the Pomba without a problem, nothing conflicts with one of the seidh slots, I'll get to the Bast ritual at last, I need to pick between a Feri ritual and a Brighid one, and elfwreck's Discordian ritual.

Need to do packing and prep for trip, which would require actually facing the fact that I'm running low on time to do packing and prep for trip. (And back to my hostile relationship with linear time.)

Word to remember: Amphisbaena

While I'm glad to know I'm still quite skilled at driving myself mad, I do not currently need the practice. So I would like to stop now. Especially since mostly I'm being stressy about the fact that my stress is silly.

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[necturus.livejournal.com]

Word to remember: Amphisbaena

There is a family of blind, legless, burrowing lizards called Amphisbaenidae.

[kiya]

Presumably named in reference to the mythological double-headed serpent.

[arianadawnhawk.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize there was a mythological one. Cool!

[elf]

You're coming to the ritual? YAAAY! (I was worried. We're opposite something by the House of Netjer; I didn't know if you'd rather go to the Kemetic thing.)

OH WAIT! They put us *NEXT TO* the Kemetic ritual for the dead! Our Gourdfest will go *right outside their doors*! Wow, that's great planning. (Nobody on the programming squad has ever actually *attended the Discordian ritual. Although they have seen the gourdfest march through the lobby, so I'm not sure what made them think "let's put them at the end of a hallway, with the solemn ritual right next door.")

The only people on P'Con's staff who pay attention to our location are the tech crew, who have carefully and repeatedly insisted that we be placed not near the electrical equipment... ever since the one year they put us next to the storage area. I dunno what happened, but the P'Con techies *respect* the Discordian ritual.

More stupid stuff in programming: "Magick for Lovers" is directly opposite "16 Elements of Ecstatic Sensuality". Yeah, nobody'll want to go to both of those.

[kiya]

Yup, I'm coming to the ritual. :) Though I won't be bringing my tie-dyed gourd drum this time, I'm leaving that at home. I'll have to snag a guardian spirit gourd. ;)

I only had two spots where it was, "Nnnh, three-four things I'd like to do all at once", which isn't bad for a con. (And the Bast ritual is up against a Pan ritual that I would probably have gone to if I hadn't been wanting to get to the former.) One of those is a choice between something yezida is running and a Huna panel, which struck me as irritating.

Last year there were four rituals I really wanted to get to, scheduled in pairs against each other. At least the two I had a social commitment to weren't in the same slot, that would have been passing frustrating.

I hope you're feeling better about the con than you were a few days ago.