Minicon is eating my life
Apr. 3rd, 2003 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelWarning: possibly incoherent rambling ahead
We had a timeline. Totally blew that. Rolled snake-eyes on a bunch of personal stuff, including being sick the entire month of February. But now we've finally got our act together, with a decent-looking program lineup (I hope) and the main batch of e-mails out. Erik Olson says we're nowhere near breaking a record for how close we came to the wire, which is a limited amount of comfort.
Next task is to collate all the e-mails and see what panels still need people, and try to fill those slots. This is all stuff I know how to do. It's nice to have a task that I know how to do. Coming up with panel ideas that don't look like the same old same old, that's the hard part. That's what I've been angsting over. But people are sending in responses saying they're willing to be on panels. Some of them are even sounding excited.
I haven't been doing much but Minicon stuff at night, and work has been busy during the day. Interesting work, though (wave of the hand to boss guy). Two weeks and a day until Minicon. The first pass on the program schedule needs to be done some next week. And if there's going to be a pocket program, I need to lay it out myself. Argh! Yesterday (in the process of trying to find something else that wasn't there), I ran across TNH's revealed truth about pocket programs (that it should be set in Gill Sans or Palatino, with all their bold, extra-bold, italic, bold italic, and condensed variants is merely opinion); this is what timebinding is good for, I guess.
And we have a someone to run Program Prep. Things could be worse. I'm sure they could be much worse.
We had a timeline. Totally blew that. Rolled snake-eyes on a bunch of personal stuff, including being sick the entire month of February. But now we've finally got our act together, with a decent-looking program lineup (I hope) and the main batch of e-mails out. Erik Olson says we're nowhere near breaking a record for how close we came to the wire, which is a limited amount of comfort.
Next task is to collate all the e-mails and see what panels still need people, and try to fill those slots. This is all stuff I know how to do. It's nice to have a task that I know how to do. Coming up with panel ideas that don't look like the same old same old, that's the hard part. That's what I've been angsting over. But people are sending in responses saying they're willing to be on panels. Some of them are even sounding excited.
I haven't been doing much but Minicon stuff at night, and work has been busy during the day. Interesting work, though (wave of the hand to boss guy). Two weeks and a day until Minicon. The first pass on the program schedule needs to be done some next week. And if there's going to be a pocket program, I need to lay it out myself. Argh! Yesterday (in the process of trying to find something else that wasn't there), I ran across TNH's revealed truth about pocket programs (that it should be set in Gill Sans or Palatino, with all their bold, extra-bold, italic, bold italic, and condensed variants is merely opinion); this is what timebinding is good for, I guess.
And we have a someone to run Program Prep. Things could be worse. I'm sure they could be much worse.
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Date: 2003-04-03 09:49 am (UTC)And you're not, in my experience, as far behind schedule as we were last year.
And you guys respond to e-mails, which is doing wonders for keeping acid reflux at bay...
And would we like to add the Program Prep person's name to the Program Book?