Hoo boy. Finally awake. I've spent the whole day sleeping off my exhaustion. Plus fighting a cold that I picked up somewhere along the way. I think I'll be right in the morning. Mostly raw throat and a little feverish and just totally tired. Better now, though.
Still feeling kinda braindead and wrung out. Will post about ORC tomorrow or the next day, I think. Thoughts and emotions still running through me and I'm not coherent enough on everything that happened.
BUT I can say that it was delightful and lovely and amazing. Meeting so many wonderful folk and having such a great time and getting SO MUCH hugging! (You have NO idea how important that is to me, and how incredibly little of it I get - the last couple of years I've been starved for touch, and I got more of it in this one weekend than I have in the last year, at least.) Great coversations and connections and support and just everything. It was a peak experience (not THAT kind of peak, unfortunately). LOTR just keeps producing these for me, wow!
The guys were gorgeous and funny and totally picturesquee. Elijah was as beautiful as I remembered him, Dom very sexy, Billy so funny I want a copy of him, and Sean was just a teddy bear. JRD was awesome to listen to - what an amazing man. Everyone was great, it was all great, and none of this is particularly surprising or informative or making a lot of sense, so I'll stop now until I can pull my thoughts together in a more useful fashion. But I thought I should check in. I'll give details and particular shoutouts a bit later.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
PS. - Cool LJ news in case you haven't heard. Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/paidmembers/15415.html
to get 2 WEEKS free time on paid accounts, to make up for the LJ crash. Is that cool or what?
Still feeling kinda braindead and wrung out. Will post about ORC tomorrow or the next day, I think. Thoughts and emotions still running through me and I'm not coherent enough on everything that happened.
BUT I can say that it was delightful and lovely and amazing. Meeting so many wonderful folk and having such a great time and getting SO MUCH hugging! (You have NO idea how important that is to me, and how incredibly little of it I get - the last couple of years I've been starved for touch, and I got more of it in this one weekend than I have in the last year, at least.) Great coversations and connections and support and just everything. It was a peak experience (not THAT kind of peak, unfortunately). LOTR just keeps producing these for me, wow!
The guys were gorgeous and funny and totally picturesquee. Elijah was as beautiful as I remembered him, Dom very sexy, Billy so funny I want a copy of him, and Sean was just a teddy bear. JRD was awesome to listen to - what an amazing man. Everyone was great, it was all great, and none of this is particularly surprising or informative or making a lot of sense, so I'll stop now until I can pull my thoughts together in a more useful fashion. But I thought I should check in. I'll give details and particular shoutouts a bit later.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
PS. - Cool LJ news in case you haven't heard. Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/paidmembers/15415.html
to get 2 WEEKS free time on paid accounts, to make up for the LJ crash. Is that cool or what?