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Dysprosium
Apr. 8th, 2015 11:38 amAs I am Sasquan's European agent, I spent a lot of my time at Dysprosium stting behind a desk. (This also means I am not going to talk about the Hugo nominations.) I didn't do my usual stints in the Green Room, although Kathy Westhead tells me they managed without me. My Friday night panel on the Golden Age of Television seemed to go well.
But, the important questions. In the bathroom of my hotel room in the Park Inn, there was a standard mixer tap on the washbasin. Turn it left for hot water, right for cold. Why was is that most nights when I wanted to clean my teeth, with the lever hard right, it delivered hot water for what seemed like minutes before it turned cold?
I had a room facing the airport and I wondered why most mornings I woke at about seven and had difficulty getting back to sleep for a final hour. I think it was because even through the double glazing, I could hear the planes landing and taking off. The exception was Friday morning when I slept right through to nine. I have a new alarm clock that I don't use at home as I have a clock radio, and I thought I'd switched it on, but it was in fact the daylight saving quick adjust button, and the DST icon on the display looks very much like an alarm icon when I'm not wearing my reading glasses.
Another exception was Tuesday morning, when I awoke in agony with a cramp in my left leg. This always seems to happen to me at conventions. At least I didn't fall out of bed clutching my leg as I did on the Tuesday after Illustrious in 2011.
As I was travelling on Tuesday, albeit only the 20 miles or so to Guildford, I put on a shirt, tie and jacket before going down to breakfast. Was it my imagination, or were the staff in the restaurant more deferential towards me than they had been of previous days when I'd been wearing a tee-shirt? The person checking room numbers actually said, "Good morning, Mr Dormer," once he found my name on the list. It wasn't even as if it was a neat jacket, although the tie is only a few months old.
Didn't stop them clearing my table away and giving it to someone else after I had finished my cereal and I was getting some hot food from the buffet.
But, the important questions. In the bathroom of my hotel room in the Park Inn, there was a standard mixer tap on the washbasin. Turn it left for hot water, right for cold. Why was is that most nights when I wanted to clean my teeth, with the lever hard right, it delivered hot water for what seemed like minutes before it turned cold?
I had a room facing the airport and I wondered why most mornings I woke at about seven and had difficulty getting back to sleep for a final hour. I think it was because even through the double glazing, I could hear the planes landing and taking off. The exception was Friday morning when I slept right through to nine. I have a new alarm clock that I don't use at home as I have a clock radio, and I thought I'd switched it on, but it was in fact the daylight saving quick adjust button, and the DST icon on the display looks very much like an alarm icon when I'm not wearing my reading glasses.
Another exception was Tuesday morning, when I awoke in agony with a cramp in my left leg. This always seems to happen to me at conventions. At least I didn't fall out of bed clutching my leg as I did on the Tuesday after Illustrious in 2011.
As I was travelling on Tuesday, albeit only the 20 miles or so to Guildford, I put on a shirt, tie and jacket before going down to breakfast. Was it my imagination, or were the staff in the restaurant more deferential towards me than they had been of previous days when I'd been wearing a tee-shirt? The person checking room numbers actually said, "Good morning, Mr Dormer," once he found my name on the list. It wasn't even as if it was a neat jacket, although the tie is only a few months old.
Didn't stop them clearing my table away and giving it to someone else after I had finished my cereal and I was getting some hot food from the buffet.
