San Francisco, Day 3

Jul 19, 2009 12:35

I didn't post this last night because I was too tired but here's the quick version of yesterday:

1. Did another security detail, this time armed with a walkie-talkie, w00t!

2. Attended Andrew Slack's plenary session about the HP Alliance. He was wonderful as always.

3. Attended board meeting in the Ashbury room (opposite the Haight room, naturally).

4. Went to the Welcome (to the Big House) Feast, along with Chris and the kids; Chris Ranking (the HP films' Percy Weasley) was arrested by Aurors! Plenty of good food and in particular some wonderful potato leek soup.

5. Went to a presentation that I won't name that I thought was being given by one person with a particular first name that turned out to be someone else entirely (because I'd forgotten the last name of the person I thought was presenting). The topic had the potential to be interesting and other people certain thought so, since the room was overflowing, but the style of presentation wasn't grabbing me so I left and tried the panel next door, but that was really crowded too, so I decided to prepare for my presentation instead and went back to the room.

6. It turned out that it was a really good thing that I took the time to go over my presentation because I'm not sure I would have felt sufficiently prepared if I hadn't. I went down to the room where I was to do it but the previous presenter was still going so I sat in the hall with Gareth F. and talked about my presentation and the panel he's going to be on tomorrow; I'll have to miss the beginning of his due to the scheduling of my roundtable but I'll be able to catch 2/3 of it.

7. The presentation went really well and a number of people wanted to talk to me afterward and give me their email addresses. As a result, I wasn't upstairs as quickly as I'd originally promised, but it all worked out okay. We went to the food court across the street, in Nordstrom's, for a quick and cheap dinner, then got on a trolley to go down Market Street to the Orpheum theatre for Wicked.

8. I wasn't sure how fast this was going to go but it turned out I didn't have to wait at all to get the tickets at the Will Call window. When the clerk handed them to me, he said, "You have really great seats. Enjoy the show!" We did and we did. :D

9. At intermission Rachel thought the show was over, but Ben informed her it wasn't. ;) The whole thing was a lot of fun and afterward we were able to get out to the street pretty quickly and back to the hotel on the Muni subway train (there's a station right outside the theatre). We didn't want to be waiting for a trolley that late; it had really gotten quite cold. Of course, then when we got off at Powell everyone wanted to walk up the street to get various things at Walgreen's, so we did that before returning to the hotel. (Ben got rather sunburnt yesterday while hiking up Twin Peaks, so we got him some aloe and some sunscreen to wear today while he's out. I've been seeing a lot of people here getting sunburnt on overcast days, which don't really protect you from the sun.)

10. Back home for a little time reading my friends' list on the computer, then to bed.

And now I have to be off to serve as a session prefect for two hours, then working Meet & Greet for three hours, followed by a presentation I want to go to and after that my own roundtable!

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