WorldCon Prep
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rolanniWe prepare for WorldCon, yes we do.
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kinzel has been a one-man ad agency: designing, printing, folding, and now boxing up various Items d'PR to be sent on ahead of us. For the first time since ...BucConeer... we will not have buttons to give out to unsuspecting and sometimes outright startled passers-by.
I've done what prep I can for my panels -- may photocopy a few passages for one of them tomorrow, in case things get chaotic, which they may, as the moderator has alas had to bail out of WorldCon at the last-but-one-moment. The proximate cause for the bail is quite exciting and I wish him well in it, but I was looking forward to seeing him again. Well. Another year.
The new LL Bean tote bag with ten (10!) pocketskaygo, is starting to fill up nicely and at some point I'm going to have to think about clothes, and the packing thereof.
Made the reservations for Wednesday night at Vinny T's (and the Extra Credit rolls in!), added Everything Now Known to the schedule list; made sure that my cell number is inkinzel's cell phone and vice versa, since we're going to be going in opposite directions much of the time. Which is perfectly fine and even welcome. kinzel and I are so used to collaborating, it's really not fair to put us on the same panel.
I've got extra batteries for the new camera. I intend to take lots of pictures, since this will be my last con (saving SheVaCon) for the foreseeable future. Hm. May get an extra, extra set of batteries, Just In Case.
Mozart's sleeping on the file box at the side of my desk and Scrabble's passed out on the catnip pillow behind the rocker. The pizza's in the oven and all's right with the world.
kinzel has been a one-man ad agency: designing, printing, folding, and now boxing up various Items d'PR to be sent on ahead of us. For the first time since ...BucConeer... we will not have buttons to give out to unsuspecting and sometimes outright startled passers-by. I've done what prep I can for my panels -- may photocopy a few passages for one of them tomorrow, in case things get chaotic, which they may, as the moderator has alas had to bail out of WorldCon at the last-but-one-moment. The proximate cause for the bail is quite exciting and I wish him well in it, but I was looking forward to seeing him again. Well. Another year.
The new LL Bean tote bag with ten (10!) pockets
kaygo, is starting to fill up nicely and at some point I'm going to have to think about clothes, and the packing thereof.Made the reservations for Wednesday night at Vinny T's (and the Extra Credit rolls in!), added Everything Now Known to the schedule list; made sure that my cell number is in
kinzel's cell phone and vice versa, since we're going to be going in opposite directions much of the time. Which is perfectly fine and even welcome. kinzel and I are so used to collaborating, it's really not fair to put us on the same panel.I've got extra batteries for the new camera. I intend to take lots of pictures, since this will be my last con (saving SheVaCon) for the foreseeable future. Hm. May get an extra, extra set of batteries, Just In Case.
Mozart's sleeping on the file box at the side of my desk and Scrabble's passed out on the catnip pillow behind the rocker. The pizza's in the oven and all's right with the world.
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WorldCon Panels
Date: 2004-08-29 08:06 am (UTC)Re: WorldCon Panels
Date: 2004-08-29 08:55 am (UTC)Cool! Our schedule is here (http://www.korval.com/n4combined.htm). I'll try to get over today and plug in the room numbers, now that they're known.
Are they (Noreascon) receptive to the Save Farscape/Watch Farscape movement? I know they are giving them fan table space which at World Con is a big fat hairy deal, but what vibe if any have you received from them do far.
Understanding that I know not much more about the Save Farscape movement myself other than it exists and that several Friends of Liad are involved in it... No television, you see. Cramps my cultural literacy.
Bear in mind that a convention -- particularly a WorldCon -- is a hive-creature, but not a hive-mind. Which is to say, beyond the fact that all of the bits of the hive have agreed to create a WorldCon at a particular time-and-place, there is no One Philosophy of Correct Fandom Which is N4's Philosophy: Insurgents Will Be Shot.
There are probably people on the committee who think Farscape is a Waste of Time(R) and those who think it's Really Great Stuff(TM). The fact that the 'Scapers have a table in the fan hall is a big fat hairy deal at WorldCon -- thousands of people are going to walk by that table, and a good number of them will want to Talk -- and I'd take it not only as a Good Omen, but as a display of Good Intentions.