is the order of the day.
I am tired today. I am new to this convention thing; though I’ve done a couple of earlier FOGcons, because I live so close by I just dipped in and out, buying day passes and going to the panels that were most interesting. This year was my second time really going to a con—staying all day, doing four or five panels at a clip, reading—and it’s done a number on me. I was pretty wrecked by Saturday night; Sunday was a jittery blur; I still feel shaky today. I thought I had a lot of things worked out by now, things about energy and introversion and anxiety, but the con thing is a whole new challenge.
And yet I love this work, and I want to get my little stories out there in the world . . . so I need to get used to reading them and talking about them. And when I’m on my game, I do enjoy myself. It’s food for thought; it’s weeks of grad school crammed into a few short days. For all that I physically feel like a wet dishrag today, my head is spinning with ideas. It’s marvelous input.
So part of this spring’s to-do list? Working up some con survival strategies. Because it looks like Readercon might be financially possible now, which means I’ll be doing this all again in a few short months.
Highlights from FOGcon, for me: running into a former professor and getting excited by her work all over again; hearing the wonderful Cat Valente read; and the panels on intervention, polyamory, and “when your traveler is my colonizer.”
I’m not seeing any mentions about the bar? Are you being decorous and I’m ruining it? Too bad, because BAR and WE ROCKED IT.
O wrecker of decorum! My head was on other matters when I wrote this, not on the fine quality of the pinot grigio; also, I would think barconning would go without saying, and part of the going forward strategy is how to work MORE barconning into the schedule. Which is really the argument for getting a room even when you live close by. I can dress it up as “naps are healthy” but in truth it’s more about “drinking with aplomb.”
As your Con buddy, I approve this new approach. STAMP OF DRUNKEN APPROVE.