Back from WisCon
Just a quick post, because trying to write about all of WisCon and everybody there would take longer than the convention itself. :)
In no particular order...
...the Cultural Appropriation 101 panel went well, at least as well as could be expected given that we had 75 minutes to teach at least a semester's worth of material.
...the Carl Brandon Society annual meeting went very well; got a lot done for the upcoming year. Additionally, the meeting with Clarion and Clarion West was a necessary and worthwhile update. And the Awards Jury get-together was really really good.
...the Interstitial Arts Foundation stuff also went well - twas good to meet new people and figure out stuff.
In all of this, I realized I had completely abdicated any sense of going to programming I wasn't on, simply because of how difficult it is to decide, most of the time. I also discovered that I wasn't as up on recent topics as I might have been in the past, so some of the panels seemed like a mystery to me.
Seeing friends was great, though I found myself getting to the end of the convention having missed some people entirely. :(
In no particular order...
...the Cultural Appropriation 101 panel went well, at least as well as could be expected given that we had 75 minutes to teach at least a semester's worth of material.
...the Carl Brandon Society annual meeting went very well; got a lot done for the upcoming year. Additionally, the meeting with Clarion and Clarion West was a necessary and worthwhile update. And the Awards Jury get-together was really really good.
...the Interstitial Arts Foundation stuff also went well - twas good to meet new people and figure out stuff.
In all of this, I realized I had completely abdicated any sense of going to programming I wasn't on, simply because of how difficult it is to decide, most of the time. I also discovered that I wasn't as up on recent topics as I might have been in the past, so some of the panels seemed like a mystery to me.
Seeing friends was great, though I found myself getting to the end of the convention having missed some people entirely. :(