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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe left home to travel 3 miles to the Fairmont hotel, our base during the convention, on Wednesday.\u00a0 Everyone spent Wednesday setting up things like Program Operations (ProgOps), getting signs in place, and opening Registration for those who were pre-registered.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDespite our best efforts, a few signs were missing and we were making things on the fly.\u00a0 And once we saw how the crowds were moving and the rooms they kept asking us how to find, we made a few more directional ones.\u00a0 One of the SJCC staff thought our idea for one was so good he was taking it back to management!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThursday afternoon the registration line was so long that I was walking the line to find my program participants so that they could get to their panels on time.\u00a0 And I ran into my in-laws.\u00a0 It was their first Worldcon, and we gave them their memberships for Christmas two years ago!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_1324.jpg\")
<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\nThe biggest problem when you’re running the convention is that you don’t get much of a chance to actually participate in the convention.\u00a0 But there were a few highlights:\r\n- \r\n \t
- having a chance to meet and work with all of the MexicanX Initiative participants.\u00a0 They were universally friendly, professional, and willing to dive in wherever needed.<\/li>\r\n \t
- watching my husband create his own Masquerade entry and enter his first Masquerade competition.\u00a0 He’s now gotten the bug and understands why most costumers are still working on things until the very last minute.<\/li>\r\n \t
- seeing N.K. Jemisin make history, winning her third consecutive Best Novel Hugo award, for The Stone Sky<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nNow that it’s all done (well, almost, still a few loose ends to wrap up), we’re back to normal at home, working on the next set of Dueling DeadlinesTM<\/sup>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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