Typing this up at 1:40am before catching some Zzz’s, a bit of packing, more than a bit of Tim Hortons, and a bus to the first of the two flights to Seattle, to the 2025 Worldcon.

This will be my first Worldcon and almost certainly not the last. I got here in such a roundabout way, too… Months ago, I was dying of boredom (a bit of a recurring theme, that) and, after playing with filters on FilmFreeway, I stumbled on Worldcon’s first-ever film festival. It hadn’t been advertised, and so it was just pure chance that I found it at all. Submitted my short film. Got accepted. Started thinking that if I’m going to attend in person, I might as well get the full week-long membership, not just the complimentary one-day ticket… And that’s how it came to be, eh. Life is a yarn ball of coincidences.

I’ll be in Seattle for six full days, at least four of which will feature post-Worldcon parties, and the sixth will have a barbecue right after a hike up one of the local mountains. (With a handful of other Worldcon attendees.) That should be fun… For extra fun, I’ll try to get up at 6am in order to be at a coffeeshop meet-ups (and one SFWA breakfast!) at 7-ish in the morning, for a chance to geek out with fellow SFF fans before the hustle and bustle of the convention.

On the off chance you’re reading this and have not yet finalized your Worldcon program – hey, come check out my film! Thursday, noon, room 331. It’ll be my third real-life screening, and it’ll be every bit as terrifying and exciting as the first two, I’m sure.

My sole regret is that I won’t be able to attend every single Worldcon panel – there are so many of them, and some of the really amazing-sounding ones overlap. Where’s a time-turner when you need one, eh?

This will be, without a doubt, the geekiest week of my life. Exactly 168 hours from now, I’ll be napping in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport before my morning flight back to Quebec City: the first of many attempts to pay off the sleep debt I’m going to accrue in the coming days.

Can’t wait, eh.