Happy Things: A busy day of panels

[jducoeur]

Just got my preliminary schedule for Arisia. It's entertainingly unbalanced, but likely to be fun. I have one panel on Friday, one on Saturday, and *seven* on Sunday. So basically I get to relax and see the convention on Saturday, and then go into full-scale Panel Marathon on Sunday, starting at 10am and running until 11pm, with a few two-hour breaks in the middle to eat and get my head together.

Should be amusing: I've never done quite so *much* blathering in one day before, but I suspect it won't be too hard. And the most important of the bunch -- The Future of Online Community, which I'm moderating and expect to be jam-packed with both people and ideas -- is smack in the middle of Sunday, so that looks to be the high point of the weekend...

Comments

[serakit.livejournal.com]

Seven panels in one day? Who schedules these things?

[jducoeur]

Well, the folks doing the scheduling are always trying to balance many concerns: scheduling hundreds of panels and participants is a really hard problem. So while I'm a somewhat extreme case, I don't begrudge them the result -- it's probably within the limits I gave them.

And it might even prove an odd advantage: it lets me really focus my "panel brain" on that one day, and mellow out for the rest of the con. If the Patriots had would up in the playoffs, I might be more resistant to having a panel Sunday evening (I actually wound up watching one of the most important football games ever at Arisia), but as it is, I'm more amused than concerned...

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

"most important football games ever"

I'm sorry; those are all words I recognize, but the phrase makes no sense to me...