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Spent the weekend in Montreal. In meetings. Okay, not entirely in meetings, but the reason for going up there was the final Worldcon concom meeting.

If I'd really thought about it, I would have stayed home. I'm editor of the souvenir book, which I eventually defined to mean content-wrangler. For better or worse, it's out of my hands now; Jim is furiously laying it out, and it goes to press any minute now. I'm also laying out the restaurant guide, but Jo Walton did all of the heavy lifting in antici_food.

If I was still intent on going, and thought about it, I would have finished and printed out the initial layout, or at least printed out the contents of antici_food, so that I could (easily) fill in a few missing addresses, note which restaurants are closed on weekends, etc.

Oh well, I went anyway, filled up several notebook pages, and had fun, dammit.

This is a picture-heavy post, so it's not only cut, but divided into at least two posts.

( my skeezy hotel )

OTOH, it was in the heart of the (imaginatively named) Gay Village (bars with names like Rocky, Campus, Tool, Bar Le Stud, and (my favorite) Priape). Furthermore, this 12-block section of Ste-Catherine is closed to traffic all summer, and was hosting an arts festival this weekend. I was intending to take the Metro downtown to the meeting, but ended up walking the whole way.
( street, art, and jazz )

( public transit: bikes, subways )

Saturday we toured the Palais de Congrès, where the con will be held.
( and there were more pics )

Enough of that for now. Next: dinner with lyonesse and pywaket led to fireworks, oh yes.