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a heavily booked weekend
Jan. 23rd, 2011 10:41 pmprobably the first of my life in which I attended committee meetings for two different conventions on the same weekend. At least, certainly the first for a long while. Potlatch was on Sunday, and Westercon was on Saturday. I'm not actually on the Westercon committee, mind you; but I had volunteered to help me old mate David Schlosser with the staff lounge, and since this was the site tour meeting and he couldn't make it, as he lives 300 miles away and had to work the previous day, I was deputed to attend this important one in his stead. I wasn't quite sure what I'd find at the meeting, as the dynamics of local SF concoms vary tremendously depending on which circles of conrunners staff them, but this turned out to be the pleasant kind.
Meanwhile at Potlatch we had a lot to accomplish - make your committee happy, buy your membership and reserve your hotel room now - and as site liaison I get to facilitate another site visit tomorrow morning.
After Westercon I went over to the university library to pick up some Tolkien studies books that had come in on ILL, but couldn't get in for a while because the library was closed for some security issue. At any rate, there was a line of cops standing in front of the doors, and they did not look like friendly cops. Eventually they parted and let us in.
And after Potlatch I came home to study Beethoven's Grosse Fuge for a couple hours - which is a little like studying Paradise Lost or Finnegans Wake for a couple hours, even though the Grosse Fuge is only 16 minutes long, only 16 minutes - in prep for a concert this evening, which when I got to it I discovered there had been a mixup with the tickets, which was not, repeat not, the venue's fault. In fact they were very goodhearted about it and squeezed me in. In the end there were three reviewers, all of us known to each other, sitting in a little clump in the good seats. This is maybe the third time in my 6 1/2 years of reviewing that there's been a serious glitch - that doesn't count the local ensemble whose publicity people always forget to tell the box office about the comp tickets, because unlike this one it never sells out, and the box office people don't care and just wave me in - and that's often enough that I live in terror of it happening each time.
Good show. Sorry L. missed it. Now for the review.
Meanwhile at Potlatch we had a lot to accomplish - make your committee happy, buy your membership and reserve your hotel room now - and as site liaison I get to facilitate another site visit tomorrow morning.
After Westercon I went over to the university library to pick up some Tolkien studies books that had come in on ILL, but couldn't get in for a while because the library was closed for some security issue. At any rate, there was a line of cops standing in front of the doors, and they did not look like friendly cops. Eventually they parted and let us in.
And after Potlatch I came home to study Beethoven's Grosse Fuge for a couple hours - which is a little like studying Paradise Lost or Finnegans Wake for a couple hours, even though the Grosse Fuge is only 16 minutes long, only 16 minutes - in prep for a concert this evening, which when I got to it I discovered there had been a mixup with the tickets, which was not, repeat not, the venue's fault. In fact they were very goodhearted about it and squeezed me in. In the end there were three reviewers, all of us known to each other, sitting in a little clump in the good seats. This is maybe the third time in my 6 1/2 years of reviewing that there's been a serious glitch - that doesn't count the local ensemble whose publicity people always forget to tell the box office about the comp tickets, because unlike this one it never sells out, and the box office people don't care and just wave me in - and that's often enough that I live in terror of it happening each time.
Good show. Sorry L. missed it. Now for the review.
