It's Minicon! It's Minicon!

[dreamshark]

For all intents and purposes, my Minicon started this past weekend. A Minnstf meeting on Saturday and a work party on Sunday, both of which I had to attend to talk to people about Programming. An excellent music party Saturday night, which was great because there was really too much music for me to talk to anybody about programming, so I could actually take the night off - and it started feeling like a con. Every other spare minute has been filled with Minicon business of one kind or another, mostly at my computer working on schedules and email.

I've actually been keeping up with the timeline I'd set for myself, but somehow I feel more and more behind by the second. I'm feeling excited, but increasingly nervous, as new tasks I'd forgotten about intrude into my brain. I have to get the refrigerators from Joyce's garage, generate formal emails to all programming participants listing their items (including the inevitable handful that I somehow never remembered to contact at all). I've sent off the event schedule to pubs for the pocket program - I hope they can read it okay. Tent cards! Omigod, how am I going to generate tent cards without a relational database? I'll just have to type all the names by hand into a Word file, I guess. I have the event list sorted by days now, but that has to be reformatted into a nice text document for each day to make inserts for the schedule holders outside the programming rooms. What about signs? Do we need more signs?

Comments

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Refrigerators!! Eeek!! I forgot about refrigerators!!

Should we schedule a swing by Joyce's place with the truck on our way to Larry's and Dreamhaven?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

If you can find a way to make that work, it would be just dandy. If you aren't going to be able to do that, let me know before Thursday and we'll go get them ourselves.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly appreciate it if a couple of signs could magically appear at registration before noon on Friday. Something mentioning that we have tickets on sale for the Sunday brunch/banquet - preferably mentioning the price (which I inconveniently don't remember).

[mroblivious.livejournal.com]

Wow, I remember those halcyon days of yore, when your Minicon could last over a week if you were willing to pitch in. Have fun. I'll be thinking good thoughts for the convention.

[pameladean]

Several people on my friends list, who want to attend but cannot, are making very wistful remarks about how great the panels look like being.

Pamela

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I'm at the point where my schedule periodically looks like a complete disaster to me, and I appreciate any and all kind remarks.

My favorite comment so far was a recent Carleton graduate (who is planning his first Minicon). On looking at the schedule, he remarked, "I thought it was just going to be boring panels about books I never heard of, but this looks really interesting!" It turns out that he knows plenty about books, btw. I think he was just intimidated by Minicon's image.

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

... feeling grammatically gobsmacked... ;-)

[pameladean]

I expect it's a time-travel tense that sneaked in there.

Pamela

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

very appropriate for Minicon

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Wow. Gobsmacked. I've now heard that word twice in the past two weeks, after not having heard it for... well, ever. My boss showed one of my test plans to some people in the Colorado office, and reported that they were "Totally gobsmacked by it." I took that to be a good thing, from the context. My boss is British, by the way. What's your excuse?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Too much Changing Rooms on BBCA?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

We have copious foam core for signs. We can make 'em up on whims.