Monday, May 28th
May. 28th, 2012 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThe Daily Report
So, yesterday went pretty dang awesomely. Jack and I attended a panel called "Steal Like An Artist" about creativity, originality, appropriation, and artistic debt. Jack was very engaged considering it was an 8:30 panel and he impressed everybody with his talent for conciseness, while I impressed everyone with... the opposite.
Seriously, though, it was a great start to the day. We had some really good panels with some really great people on them, and we got to hang out withkarnythia and her husband... I think at my first Wiscon I managed to say about seven or eight words to her, but this con... well, we've been taking more breaks for both physical and social reasons, and so I've made it to Monday with a surfeit of spoons and by Sunday I was feeling really warmed up to the whole "talking to people" thing.
I'm glad that I ended up not doing any panels this year because it gave me a chance to observe things like that. I think next year I'm going to put my availability down as starting Saturday night through Sunday, because Saturday night was when I really feel like I started to hit my stride.
Yesterday was also a really great day in terms of choosing panels that proved to be helpful for the purposes of developing A Wilder World.
State of the Me
I feel good.
Plans For Today
Last day of con. We're planning on attending one more panel, about the popularity of YA novels and reclaiming the sense of youthful wonder. Also, there's a bag I was looking at in one of the stores on State Street that I didn't want to plunk down the money for until I knew I was covered for everything else.
We're here all day, by the way. The extra cost of one more night at con rates is less than the difference between the three of us flying out on Memorial Day and flying out on Tuesday.
So, yesterday went pretty dang awesomely. Jack and I attended a panel called "Steal Like An Artist" about creativity, originality, appropriation, and artistic debt. Jack was very engaged considering it was an 8:30 panel and he impressed everybody with his talent for conciseness, while I impressed everyone with... the opposite.
Seriously, though, it was a great start to the day. We had some really good panels with some really great people on them, and we got to hang out with
karnythia and her husband... I think at my first Wiscon I managed to say about seven or eight words to her, but this con... well, we've been taking more breaks for both physical and social reasons, and so I've made it to Monday with a surfeit of spoons and by Sunday I was feeling really warmed up to the whole "talking to people" thing. I'm glad that I ended up not doing any panels this year because it gave me a chance to observe things like that. I think next year I'm going to put my availability down as starting Saturday night through Sunday, because Saturday night was when I really feel like I started to hit my stride.
Yesterday was also a really great day in terms of choosing panels that proved to be helpful for the purposes of developing A Wilder World.
State of the Me
I feel good.
Plans For Today
Last day of con. We're planning on attending one more panel, about the popularity of YA novels and reclaiming the sense of youthful wonder. Also, there's a bag I was looking at in one of the stores on State Street that I didn't want to plunk down the money for until I knew I was covered for everything else.
We're here all day, by the way. The extra cost of one more night at con rates is less than the difference between the three of us flying out on Memorial Day and flying out on Tuesday.