Still Alive After Worldcon 76

[melchar]

Still Alive After Worldcon 76 [BJH, with apologies to the end song of 'Portal']

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Convention fandom.
We do what we must because we can.
For the fan in all of us
and all the books we have read.

WSFS meetings cry over every mistake.
You just keep amending till you run out of cake.
And the motions are done
Business Meeting's begun
For the fans who all will arrive.

I've gone beyond tired.
I'm close to comatose right now.
Fandom gives me energy
and purpose -
And sends me to Con Suite -
to give all the fans a hug and snacks
As they munched, I smiled because
I was so happy for you.

Now the event panels have spilled out of their rooms
twice as much attendance
leaving no one leg room.
But I'm glad for the crowds
even though they are loud
for the fans are all having fun!

So visit the Dealers
my wallet begs me to stay away.
You'll surely find more stuff to buy and carry.
Look at the book sales!
We'll all need a cart to haul the loot
Anyway, the art is great.
It's one more thing I must have.

Look at me directing where the parties will be
after Masquerade and all the judging, we're free.
There's more filking to be done
late night panels still to run
for the fans who are still awake.

And believe me we are still awake.

We're doing Hugos and we're still awake.

I feel exhausted but I'm still awake.

Site Selection says New Zealand's awake.

And next year Dublin will see we're awake.

Worldcon now -

Worldcon then!