FOGCon Day 1
Mar. 8th, 2013 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaHome and exhausted! I drove today because with the MPG I get on my car it's actually cheaper than BART, sadly. Plus cuts the commute time in half. Tomorrow, though, I am planning on FOGCon in the morning/afternoon and then Seanan McGuire's Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show in the evening, because I have missed the last TWO and they are pretty much the most fun you can have if you're an enormous spec-fic book geek who also likes geeky music.
Panels today included a FASCINATING look at interrogation techniques, and what works (listening, talking) and what doesn't (torture), a prison-system panel I only caught the last half of, and a really neat working-class heroes panel. Like a lot of class-related panels, we got somewhat bogged down by the fact that there's no good language or even minimally-agreed-upon definitions for class, but we persevered, and I got some book recs. Been rec'd Remnant Population again, and will track it down one of these days. Got to rec due South, because its working class nature is one of my favorite things about it.
Also volunteered at the consuite, whoo, first time volunteering at a con! Since I've been going to cons for 10 years, I figured it was time to start giving back. I WANT to be on panels, but with all the stuff that happened in December and January I missed the sign-up window. But I'm going to try to get on a few panels for WisCon this year.
Okay, sleep now, since I'm getting up at an ungodly hour to get on BART to make the 9 am panel.
(Yes, I'm the crazy person who gets up to attend morning panels. Well, if you're going to have a cool panel at 9 am I am going! I make no promises to STAY awake, but I will be there.)
Panels today included a FASCINATING look at interrogation techniques, and what works (listening, talking) and what doesn't (torture), a prison-system panel I only caught the last half of, and a really neat working-class heroes panel. Like a lot of class-related panels, we got somewhat bogged down by the fact that there's no good language or even minimally-agreed-upon definitions for class, but we persevered, and I got some book recs. Been rec'd Remnant Population again, and will track it down one of these days. Got to rec due South, because its working class nature is one of my favorite things about it.
Also volunteered at the consuite, whoo, first time volunteering at a con! Since I've been going to cons for 10 years, I figured it was time to start giving back. I WANT to be on panels, but with all the stuff that happened in December and January I missed the sign-up window. But I'm going to try to get on a few panels for WisCon this year.
Okay, sleep now, since I'm getting up at an ungodly hour to get on BART to make the 9 am panel.
(Yes, I'm the crazy person who gets up to attend morning panels. Well, if you're going to have a cool panel at 9 am I am going! I make no promises to STAY awake, but I will be there.)