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marrael has a Wiscon recap up now: http://www.livejournal.com/users/marrael/35467.html?#cutid1 It's fabulous. But be warned: Shirtless David Levine.

I forgot to publically mourn: I have nearly no swag from the con. Hannah brought me "A place so foreign" for my birthday (It isn't yet personalized "to my future wife," but I'm sure that's just a matter of time.). And I snagged a copy of Salt Roads of the free table(which was much more dangerous than it may sound--I feared for my life for a moment there or so). I have to send it to Lena when I finish reading it, and I've got this feeling that I was supposed to do that with another book back in the day, and never did. And I got my latest (and last in the subscription) LCRW. And Leslie gave me a copy of Olympic Games right as I left, which I should probably lend to Hannah when I've read it. But right now, I'm reading Cory-stories. Mmmmm.

And I got money from my mom for my birthday to buy a pair of earings from elisem. Nothing fancy, just a set of flower earings--blue glass flowers hanging down with little pearl stamens. I can't remember if she has pictures of the style up, but they're very cute. 38 different colors, she told us, and 14 of them were blue. :) I picked (well, okay, Kat picked) a nice very deep blue, though momentarily I got distracted by a reddish/yellow/almost-amber colored pair.

But I didn't get to buy any books at all. And I had a list like you wouldn't believe--Ratbastard chapbooks, and um, most of the SBP table, and that's probably most of it all. Oh, Little Gods, were I feeling truly rich. But I wasn't. I was being very very good. Which was very very hard.

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Oh, and I should probably do a 'first day at the new house' type post, but I didn't really do anything there, so I'm not sure if it's worth it. I'll think about it for a while though.

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Oh, at the New Wave YA reading, Sharyn November gave the best definition of YA as a group that I've heard yet. Hannah and I just looked at each other, and gave each other very big eyes. She said, aproximately, that YA novels are about people (presumably young/youngish, but not necessarily in a particular age group) facing a problem they don't have tools to handle yet.

I think it might be a bit broad--clearly you can write novels about that which aren't YA, but I'll bet that I could make at least 75% of the YA I read fit that sentence, without even stomping on the edges.

So. What do the rest of you think? yes? no? (Hannah, or anyone else who was there, did I remember it correctly?)