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People I was somewhat surprised to see at Tcon:

• Nimic, who I didn't know until he got here
  
• Megan Lewis
  
• Scooter, who sort of recognised me (I knew him vaguely the first couple years I was here)
  
• Colleen Reed, who didn't recognise me (mostly because the last time I saw her was like ten years ago)
  
• James Not-Matthew Roberts and Kate Roberts
  
• Jennifer Dunham (!), who I've known longer than anyone I'm not related to, with maybe four exceptions (all of whom, it occurs to me, are also female. How odd.)

In other news:
a bullet in the head, now he's dead
a friend of a friend, someone said
he was an activist with a very short life
i think there's a lesson here-- he died without a fight
in a war over land where the world began
prophecies say it's where the world will end
but there's a tremor growing in our own backyard
fear in our heads, fear in our hearts
--Indigo Girls, "Jonas and Ezekial"