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So much to say, only an ipad mini keyboard to type it on. Today was the first full day of the Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting (read: 221BCon for the Austen set).
I got in and got registered yesterday;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mechturtle took me to dinner at a fab Mexican/Honduran place. O'm not at the con hotel, but one a couple of blocks away. It's nice, but there's a big overworked piece of art of a woman's face.
Did I mention that my plane reading was The Shining? I don't know if I'm relieved or disappointed that it hasn't moved.
Anyway, today I:
- went to a bonnet making workshop, which I had to leave in a hurry to get to
- the Sherlock Holmes tour
- a lecture on Regency magazines
- a lecture on the history of tea
- a fashion show and the world's stingiest tea service
...which has tuckered me out too much for the curtain raiser and Pride, Prejudice & Piquet lectures. (Plus, it's premiere night.)
Random things: Jane Austen was born on the 2nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which was far more complex than is taught in school. The mad tea party is apparently more upsetting and unnatural to a British audience than an American one with looser ideas of what a "proper" tea is like. (Is this true?). Ladies' magazines had "lots of poetry. Lots and lots of bad poetry. Lots and lots of really bad poetry." Ackerman's magazine was as much about furnishings as fashion; in the fashion plates "they were always sitting on something fabulous."
The Holmes tour caught the last few days of Sherlock Holmes In Time and Place - a room of Reichenbach Fall memorabilia that was difficult for someone looking for a ladies room, a lecture on how U MN got the largest collection of memorabilia, a chance to take photos of a Beeton's Christman Annual and a page of the Hound manuscript. Then after a short walk, another part of the exhibit (this one about tie-ins) and a replica of the sitting room and a talk about scion societies.
Also, bonnet-making is addictive and I want to crank out a dozen.
Tomorrow, knitted mitt workshop, dance lessons, a session about what the original P&P audience would have known about class and politics, and (if a family emergency has passed) a session on food used for entertaining.
I got in and got registered yesterday;
mechturtle took me to dinner at a fab Mexican/Honduran place. O'm not at the con hotel, but one a couple of blocks away. It's nice, but there's a big overworked piece of art of a woman's face.Did I mention that my plane reading was The Shining? I don't know if I'm relieved or disappointed that it hasn't moved.
Anyway, today I:
- went to a bonnet making workshop, which I had to leave in a hurry to get to
- the Sherlock Holmes tour
- a lecture on Regency magazines
- a lecture on the history of tea
- a fashion show and the world's stingiest tea service
...which has tuckered me out too much for the curtain raiser and Pride, Prejudice & Piquet lectures. (Plus, it's premiere night.)
Random things: Jane Austen was born on the 2nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which was far more complex than is taught in school. The mad tea party is apparently more upsetting and unnatural to a British audience than an American one with looser ideas of what a "proper" tea is like. (Is this true?). Ladies' magazines had "lots of poetry. Lots and lots of bad poetry. Lots and lots of really bad poetry." Ackerman's magazine was as much about furnishings as fashion; in the fashion plates "they were always sitting on something fabulous."
The Holmes tour caught the last few days of Sherlock Holmes In Time and Place - a room of Reichenbach Fall memorabilia that was difficult for someone looking for a ladies room, a lecture on how U MN got the largest collection of memorabilia, a chance to take photos of a Beeton's Christman Annual and a page of the Hound manuscript. Then after a short walk, another part of the exhibit (this one about tie-ins) and a replica of the sitting room and a talk about scion societies.
Also, bonnet-making is addictive and I want to crank out a dozen.
Tomorrow, knitted mitt workshop, dance lessons, a session about what the original P&P audience would have known about class and politics, and (if a family emergency has passed) a session on food used for entertaining.
