JournalCon Austin, Day Two

It's been another incredibly long day, and I'm the person on call at 8am tomorrow, but JournalCon is going very well, and I wanted to post a quick update before I go to bed.

I attended several panels throughout the morning and afternoon and presented my own panel, What Not to Wear: Web Site Makeovers. I've been working on a new design for my friend Pecan of Estoy Nueces, and I'm excited that I can finally show it off. It's been something of a secret in the weeks leading up to JournalCon.

Iko of Eileene.net put together a lovely redesign of Devota's page for the panel, as well.

I had a great time presenting my panel. I wasn't particularly nervous, I always had something to say, and a lot of people seemed to find it entertaining. Mission Accomplished.

We didn't have internet access in the conference rooms, so I couldn't really show, though I was tempted, that my own site is still very similar to the standard MT template. I feel all inspired by my panel success to redesign my site, bits at a time. I imagine the photolog will come first.

In the evening, we all packed into the Hideout's theater to watch excerpts of two one-woman shows, as well as some skits that Omar put together for the Latino Comedy Project. The place was packed full of JournalCon attendees, and I helped run stuff up in the A/V booth. Everyone seemed to have a great time!

After the show, a bunch of people went off to do karaoke, but I went with a group of people to Forbidden Fruit (the tattoo/piercing part, not the sex toy part, just for the record) to see Mnvnjnsn (buy a vowel) get her new tattoo. I wanted to document the process, so I took pictures, of course. While she was still being worked on, Shannon got a henna tattoo of a lizard on her back. I think the henna ones are more my style -- I haven't got the attention span to pick a design that will be meaningful to me in five years.

Alright, it's too late. I'm off to bed.