JournalCon update

Most of my regular audience will be sick of me writing about JournalCon by the time the weekend is over, but somebody somewhere wants to know how JournalCon is going, so I'm going to be the girl who tells you.

So far, JournalCon is going swimmingly! We have the Chambers Bar reserved at the Omni all weekend as our hospitality room, and it was pretty packed with people for most of the evening, during the welcome mixer. The webcam got moved around periodically to show different areas of the room, and it was funny to see people move to avoid it.

After the mixer, people headed out for dinner, and then later in the evening, about 40 people showed up again for Web Writers Gone Wild, where several journallers read revealing sex-related entries. They were all fabulous; some were funny, some were poignant, and every one of them was entertaining.

People keep commenting on how weird it is to meet the people whose journals they read regularly, and it's true, it is weird! For me, it's even weirder to hear people say, "Oh! I've read your stuff!" I forget sometimes that I have an audience outside a few close friends, some of my family, and people googling for random things.

So, yeah, the conference is going very well. I'm proud of our committee for organizing things well ahead of time, so that we can mostly mingle and enjoy the conference ourselves now that it's actually rolling.

I'll try to continue posting regularly over the weekend.

Oh! One funny story before I submit. I got to the Omni at around 2:30, so by the time the welcome mixer was well underway, I'd had a couple of drinks (over about three hours -- I was hardly intoxicated). Then we had a cash bar for the mixer, and I was talking to CY and another journal writer as I was exchanging a ticket for a drink at the cash bar.

Long story short, the bartender gave me my ticket back because it had taken him so long to give me a Shiner Bock, but the ticket fell to the ground. I stooped down to pick it up, but my center of gravity was all messed up because the bar was in my way, and I managed to roll backward onto the floor, hitting the illustrious AB of Hashai.

She, of course, was all concerned for my well-being, because it looked as though I had completely fallen over, when in fact, I'd just rolled a bit.

Yeah.

Hi! I'm Rachel. I'm on the Host Committee, and I'm a total spaz. Nice to meet you.

More JournalCon later.