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brisingamen, "I look forward to seeing you at Wiscon, even if I'm not sure what I'll be doing there or why I agreed to be on programming. (This happens to me betimes; with any luck I'll get over it in time to actually think about said programming.)"
In particular, sometimes there's programming I'm sure I know enough to be on, like the Earthsea panel a few years ago; sometimes there's programming I'm obvious for for other reasons, like our Tiptree jury discussing what we'd done; and sometimes I cheerfully say "sure, I can do this" and then wonder what on Earth I'm going to say, and why they picked me. (Once in a while I walk into a program item and find myself drafted. That's worked well, so far, and it doesn't leave me time to be nervous beforehand: it's someone saying "This is Vicki Rosenzweig, your fellow panelist" to a woman I don't know when I expect to sit and listen in Hall 4 [1] ortnh demanding to know what I'm doing in the back of the room when I should be up on the panel with her and three other people, and me not saying "I wanted to be able to slip out unobtrusively if the panel wasn't working for me."
I haven't yet looked at the list of thingskalmn is looking to fill; all else aside, I'm taking adrian_turtle to what is effectively her first Wiscon (she did one day of one quite a while back, while looking at grad schools and not feeling well) and don't want to overbook myself in other directions.
[1] Yes, Intersection, with the horrid acoustics, and me completely dried out by the end and gratefully claiming my drink entitlement as a panelist after the fact, and downing a glass of pineapple juice fast.
brisingamen, "I look forward to seeing you at Wiscon, even if I'm not sure what I'll be doing there or why I agreed to be on programming. (This happens to me betimes; with any luck I'll get over it in time to actually think about said programming.)"In particular, sometimes there's programming I'm sure I know enough to be on, like the Earthsea panel a few years ago; sometimes there's programming I'm obvious for for other reasons, like our Tiptree jury discussing what we'd done; and sometimes I cheerfully say "sure, I can do this" and then wonder what on Earth I'm going to say, and why they picked me. (Once in a while I walk into a program item and find myself drafted. That's worked well, so far, and it doesn't leave me time to be nervous beforehand: it's someone saying "This is Vicki Rosenzweig, your fellow panelist" to a woman I don't know when I expect to sit and listen in Hall 4 [1] or
tnh demanding to know what I'm doing in the back of the room when I should be up on the panel with her and three other people, and me not saying "I wanted to be able to slip out unobtrusively if the panel wasn't working for me."I haven't yet looked at the list of things
kalmn is looking to fill; all else aside, I'm taking adrian_turtle to what is effectively her first Wiscon (she did one day of one quite a while back, while looking at grad schools and not feeling well) and don't want to overbook myself in other directions.[1] Yes, Intersection, with the horrid acoustics, and me completely dried out by the end and gratefully claiming my drink entitlement as a panelist after the fact, and downing a glass of pineapple juice fast.