In the middle of the night, we flew from Seattle to San Francisco. I nodded off briefly, but had a weird seat and couldn’t get comfy. Dawn as seen from the plane was beautiful. We got in and found out that we had to race to the next gate because we’d been put on another…
I got up super super early (6am) in order to walk down to Pike Place Market with Atossa and Panneer so they could see it before we had to fly out of Seattle later that morning. We got there when the market opened. Unfortunately, most of the vendors don’t set up that early on a…
Ah, Saturday. Started out the day at a hectic pace with a brand new way to count bookfair attendees–giving each one of them a numbered label before they could go into the bookfair. We did a little packing up (only had a few stations up anyway) and gave out labels at a fast pace all…
There’s even less I remember about today. Things that happened: The hotel’s daily schedule. AWP totally takes over. I remembered that I wanted to buy the writer tarot deck Two Sylvias Press was selling. So as soon as the bookfair opened and I was free for a second at onsite registration, I went straight over…
I have only a vague recollection of what happened this day. I will do my best to reconstruct it… Up super early to get to onsite registration and set up for the day. Took the shortcut there with pride. Started up the computers. Fixed whichever ones needed to be fixed. Got the Tweet Wall up…
I’d been reading some of Yann Martel’s short stories and finished reading in bed the night before (a beautiful way to spend my vacation, reading in bed, BTW) in time to give the book away today. However, they gave me a very strange dream that I think I’d like to one day try to make…
This day, I woke up early and took to the streets of Boston with a snarf map and a 13-page spreadsheet detailing every snarf on the map, color-coded to show if I’d already snarfed it on a previous trip to Boston or not. I didn’t want to waste time going out of my way to…
Last night I ended up going to a staff party… which was a mistake. My team lost the scavenger hunt (I demand a recount!) but, mostly, it was because it was the most exhausting week of my life and waiting around until after midnight and watching people drink instead of going to sleep is not…
Um, okay. Somehow I completely miscounted and missed Boston Day 6! Oops! So I’m fixing the dates/times of this post so it appears in order. Silly me! I woke up early and got a couple more entries for the staff scavenger hunt out of the way, as my team kind of fell apart in doing…
Setup started 2 hours earlier than was called for and we almost didn’t finish setup in order to start on time at noon. We found a few small bugs in the system that our consultant at ShiftEight fixed right away for us minutes before we opened. My station at the help desk remained my station…
Ah, Tuesday. Tuesday is setup day for staff. I thought about waking up early to get a few more snarfs in before work started, but the alternative was sleep and sleep won out overwhelmingly. So, instead, I spent the morning sleeping, eating, and writing postcards: We all met in the hotel lobby later in the…
Woke up at “too damn early o’clock” in order to get ready for the Super Shuttle to pick me up at 5am. It came a little early, just as I was about to run the trash out. And so began an extremely long day of goods & bads. Bad: Shuttle caught me off guard by…
I went to NYC for work again this year during the last week of May. We took the train up. I got a bit of work and some reading done on the way, though the ride seemed longer than I’d remembered. They were doing construction on Penn Station, so we had a hard time figuring…
Another early start, I woke up and wished I could stay in bed all day. I really didn’t want to see that onsite registration desk again. But I returned, as did all the staff. We were all a bit shell-shocked and had a hard time adjusting to the small amount of people who showed up…
Not even sure what day it is at this point. Today was kind of unreal onsite. Twice as many people came to onsite registration than ever before. We weren’t just swamped or overwhelmed… I don’t even have the words to describe what that was. We just registered people. As fast as possible. And tried to…
What a day. Up early for my presentation at the board meeting, which went fine. Then I picked up something to drink and headed to onsite registration. We finished setting up and had a quick practice section with the website. Before we knew it, registration was open and we had hundreds of people standing in…
Had a bit of a slow start as I had a rough night and really wanted to try to sleep more. But I also needed food and snarfage. My decision was made for me when I coworker called about her email problem. I thought I solved it, but maybe it’s still not working; I don’t…
This is my third trip to Boston. During the first, I drove up with my friend, Delma, and her daughter and went on a sight-seeing tour during the day then went to the post-Leakycon WRock show with House of Black, the Butterbeer Experience, and The Ministry of Magic. During my second trip, I took the…
The last day of the conference & bookfair! One of our board members (I think?) brought us nummy cupcakes to celebrate! It was slow on-site (mostly a lot of giving out directions and apologizing for running out of everything). During lunch, I released a book in the penthouse. There were lots of books on the…
Is it day five already? How did that happen? So sleepy. Getting up at 6am every morning is not my thing at all. Mornings and Kate do not get along at all. I spent the morning at on-site registration, monitoring social networks and making a slideshow of images of the Chronicle, the digital app, and…
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