Schedule for The Witching Hour

[amanuensis1]

At this point it almost feels like a meme! But here's what I've been looking at on The Witching Hour schedule, and a little of the informal schedule too.

The key thing is that I want to see PEOPLE. The lovelies I've met before and those of you I haven't yet. And once I find you I'm likely to fluctuate between Rat and Pied Piper--i.e., either "Where're you guys going? Cool, I'll go with you," or "We're all clueless? Okay, this panel sounds good; let's all go who wants and arrange to call or meet back here in two hours." If it means forgoing a lot of scheduled events then I'm not worried.

Thursday at 6pm there is a gathering of hp_dungeons fen at the Hawthorne, and I'm going to try to make that. I do want to go to the pornish_pixies meet-up at 10pm at the Salem BeerWorks, so, I'll see if I can do both.

On Friday there's two panels at 9am in the Salem Waterfront Ballrooms: the Fanfiction and the Fanart panels. How do ya choose? I suspect I'll go into the one and slip into the other partway through. I really want to meet certain artists (glockgal, waccawheels, fiendling, you know who you are) and if I can catch them at that panel, then I've found them early and don't have to wait until their Art Booths later. (But maybe you guys will be at the pornish_pixies get-together? Be there, be there!)

The 9am-noon Writing and Art Booth, the 2pm Beta panel, and the 3pm panel on Snape and Loyalty sound intriguing, and because I'm sure to be limpet-clingy to cluegirl I plan to be at her 5pm reading at the Hawthorne hotel library. Clue, look for me before you leave for it!

Come evening there's a gathering at 9pm at Engine House Pizza (ooh, pizza, who wants to try a salami pizza with me?) for Snarry fans. Is it just me or is everyone else sort of hoping the mundanes at the locations will be eavesdropping and going all wide-eyed at the topic of conversation?

Saturday has another host of intriguing-looking panels, I'll list them here:

9am: Slash (Ballroom 1)
9am: Ethics of fanfiction (Ballroom 2)
10am: Snape's Ambiguity (Ballroom 1)
11am: Snape, fanfiction, and ambiguity (Ballroom 1)
11:25 am: Queerness & Knowledge PoA (PEM Auditorium)
9-4pm: Writing and art booth (B&G Club Games room)
3pm: OTP (B&G Club Media room)
3pm: Metaphorical Queerness (Universalist Church Sanctuary)
4pm: Fanfiction vs. Original fic (Ballroom 1)
8pm: Auction (I don't know what's being auctioned but, hey, I don't want to miss something good!)

There's a dinner at 6pm for hp_dungeons (and the menu looks good!).


Sunday, same drill:

1pm: Slash as literary endeavor (Ballroom 1)
1pm: Fanfiction, Snape, sex (SS/HG) (Hawthorne hotel library)
3pm: het, feminism in m/m slash fandom (Ballroom 1)
Noon-4pm: Writing and art booth 2pm: Snape's appeal
4pm: Romance in book 6

(ETA: The ball's Sunday night, not Saturday! Der. Not quite sure where but I've got the dress. Don't have the ticket yet, owing to my oversight, but I 'll get one when I get there.)

I haven't ruled out the meet-up at the Salem Beer Works at 5pm: it's aimed at Snape/Draco fans but, hey, I might go for the company.

One last thing: if you're on a panel and using your real name I might not know who you are! Don't be upset if I've overlooked you in that case. Give me usernames; I'm better with those. (Even those don't always look right if they're not in blue, lowercase, with a little person-picture preceding them.)

And yes, I'll have about 4 dozen "Yes, I'm here for the slash" buttons. Look for my default icon on a button (or maybe taped to my nametag) (and it'll be a black-and-white picture because my color printer hasn't had a software upgrade made for it since Mac OS 9, damn Epson anyway) and hit me up for one. ^_^

Comments

[mereol.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or is everyone else sort of hoping the mundanes at the locations will be eavesdropping and going all wide-eyed at the topic of conversation?

Being one of the mundanes in the area who is not planning to attend, I'm thinking of going down to conduct an exit poll at these places after you all leave just to see how New England deals with having such huge holes popped in their little ultra-conservative balloons.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Speak for yourself...the part of New England I'm from isn't all that conservative...:D

[mereol.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but the Salem/Marblehead area sure as heck is.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Dooooo it! Come say hi at these places, at least!

[mereol.livejournal.com]

Some helpful tips (http://www.livejournal.com/users/chanond/32729.html#cutid1) for the out-of-towners.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Snorfle! I never, never want to drive in Boston. It's INSANE.

[mereol.livejournal.com]

I'm told that this one: 12. You believe using your turn signals gives away your plan to the enemy is true for most major cities as well.

[logospilgrim.livejournal.com]

See you tomorrow, my dearest one ;-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I am so looking forward to seeing you again! Have you mentioned which panel(s) you will be on or shall I just look for you at all the Snape ones? ^_~

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Dude, 9 AM PROGRAMMING. 9 AM! Eeee.

[violet_quill]

Seriously, why did they put the slash panel at 9am? o.O Don't they know we're night owls?

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

And not just that-- why did they put the ethics and slash panels *opposite each other* at 9 AM? I wonder if I could stand in between the two rooms and listen in on both of them.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

We need EXTENDABLE EARS!!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

YES. ARGH.

Actually, I am a morning person, and the timing wouldn't bother me were it not for the fact that AIE NEW TIMEZONE 7AM TO ME!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Exactly! We're going to have to have breakfast in like, the middle of the night to be there by 9 AM.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I hear this sleep thing is highly overrated, anyway.

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Heh, well this is true. I don't worry about being up late/getting up early at any other time, I'm not so sure why I'm all concerned about it now. ;-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I know, I just don't want to be UP LATE and UP EARLY! Pickk one fer gossakes!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Why oh why can't we start the pornish_pixies meet-up at 8pm like sensible morning people?

Oh, that's right. The only ones of us who are morning people are those who have been made so, kicking and screaming, by THE MAN.

(Or our kids.)

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

And there's, like, a welcome everyone something-or-other first. I think. I know for the Pornish RoR we have to be gone by midnight?

Obviously, I'll be the clueless one, wandering around with the other porn writers.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Won't it be great to have someone say, "And what are all of you here for?" and we say, "We write porn!" with big happy smiles?

And, yeah, I think they feed us or something on Thursday. Oh, yeah, they do! At the Sheraton, good thing!

[violet_quill]

omg I get to meet aaaaamy! *packs like a mad packing thing*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I cannot WAIT! I shall glomp you like a mad glomping thing!

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

The ball is Sunday night, not Saturday.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Damn, THAT'S why I can't find it on Saturday's schedule! Thank you!

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*pines* Oh man, I wish I could make it. It looks like it's going to be fantastic. Just one big convention, thats all I ask. I just want to go to one.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I will keep a warm spot available for you for the next one. Promise. ^_^

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

And I'll be there with bells on :D

[femmequixotic]

Oooh, Dungeons dinner Saturday is at 6, hon. :D Couldn't get the reservation any earlier because they've got another group coming in between 5 and 5:30...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Right right right! Saw that in my notes as I was doing an edit and fixed. Thanks, love! (Looking forward to glomping you!)

[femmequixotic]

I cannot believe it's tomorrow! AIE!

I have to get booze...

:D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be such a loser if I don't show up at that get-together with booze! But, like, I'm more of a wine-with-dinner kind of girl. What should I bring?

[femmequixotic]

Well, I think we've got plenty of booze, actually--Kai and Clue are bringing a bunch--so if you wanted to bring something like a 2-liter of soda or water or something for anyone who didn't want to drink, that would be tres, tres cool. :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll do that, then! I hope it doesn't make me look like a recovering alcoholic. Stoopid that I should even worry about that, right? ^_^ I once read that if you are taken to lunch during a job interview and your prospective employer(s) order something alcoholic to drink you should do the same so that they know you aren't a recovering alcoholic and a potential problem. (F**ked-up world, innit?)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhnnngsttttttt. :( I had so wanted to meet you. Alas, no WH for me this time. But perhaps another... year! Have a great time!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I will miss you SO much! But I will keep a spot warm for you for the next event, promise!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Me tooooooooooooo... and I will *be* at that next event, damn it. Er, hopefully. Best of all possible worlds!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The only things I'm firmly committed to are the Henry Jenkins talk and the Hp_Knitters Room of Requirement on Saturday.

You'll have no trouble finding me. I'll be trailing a half-completed Ravenclaw scarf all weekend.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Weee, it will be great to see you again! I will have stripy socks for at least some of the time. ^_^

I printed the schedule. Haven't actually LOOKED at it yet.

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Grab me for the pizza/snarry thing. No anchovies. 8-) I'll likely be tagging along behind Catt, too, so we'll bump into each other like balloons trailing behind a little girl.

Re: I printed the schedule. Haven't actually LOOKED at it yet.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, fabulous, YES. If I tell everyone that we are balloon-bumping buddies they will get quite the wrong idea but to heck with them, it's fun. ^_^ And no anchovies except on Caesar salads and in Puttanesca sauce (which I like to call Dirty Whore sauce or preferably I'm A Whore; Who Has Time To Cook? sauce).

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

I'm likely to fluctuate between Rat and Pied Piper

As long as you hit the Rat! "D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I will not hit the rat, I will love and cuddle and hug the rat! *hugs*

[inspiredlife.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I was thinking the same thing about the snarry meet-up. Wicked glee imagining all the mundanes eavesdropping on the convo!
Wheee!

Perhaps I should look at the schedule. You msy be fluctuating between Rat and the Pied Piper but you seem to know what's going on at least!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I am too organized. Watch me, I'll end up ditching 90% of anything schedule-like!

[ziasudra-fic.livejournal.com]

ooh, I'll look for you to get my slash button. Save me one!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I will do my very best to keep one for you from the marauding hordes! ^_^

[http://users.livejournal.com/_riz/]

Look for my default icon on a button (or maybe taped to my nametag)

LOL, that is a goofy yet brilliant idea. I get really confused sometimes when I see someone else using an icon on my flist with the same picture of Lucius.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

We love that picture, don't we? Haughty bastard!