still not used to being home

Awesome things about this Wiscon, in no particular order:

• The spontaneous writing contest, duh. (Entries now online! Read them all, or at least the first three, which by coincidence (no, really) are the top three.)
  
• blairmacg and queenoftheskies. Also LaShawn and ckd and a small handful of new people, but I've not seen Blair or Janice in two and a half years and that's quite long enough for that.
  
• NK Jemisin's speech, which got the longest standing ovation I've seen at Wiscon. Holy cats that was amazing.
  
• Hiromi Goto's speech, also magnificent if quieter than Nora's.
  
• Books! Naomi Mitchison's whimsical Travel Light, and A Stranger in Olondria on recommendation from aamcnamara among others, and Eleanor Arnason's Big Mama Stories and the Ursula Le Guin 80th birthday book, and best of all a beautiful limited-run hardback of this year's Tiptree winner, Rupetta by Nike Sulway.
  
• The auction, which remained hilarious despite a lack (mostly) of Ellen Klages.
  
• Selling 'The True Meaning of Smekday' to Pat Murphy.
  
• Finally realising that the proper way to have lunch at Wiscon is to buy bread at the farmers market and cheese remnants at the cheese store.
  
• And panels and artshow and people and just a general overwhelming sense that this is what the world should be like: full of interesting conversations among people who agree on the basics and are committed to treating each other like human beings.