Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:09:35 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> ase at wdn.com 04/01/02 11:27PM >>>>
>Erica VD Ginter wrote:
>
>> The best way to avoid lines for the masquerade, Hugos, etc., is to have =
an
>> SO on the tech crew. You can slip in and sit with them. The down side =
is
>> they are busy doing techie things for the whole con.
>
>Another way to avoid lines is to volunteer yourself. *S* Which is how I
>got to see the 2000 Hugos in person, with a reasonably good seat, and
>saw most of the '01 Masquerade entrants up close. Of course, it takes a
>chunk out of your late afternoon and evening, which could be spent doing
>other stuff (panels, resting, dinner- forgettable stuff like that. *S*)
>
>Ase(Thinking about what to volunteer for at ConJose- the art show, of
>course, and maybe the Masquerade again? It was pretty fun [in an
>exhausting, time eating sort of way] last time.)
><*>
>

Sometimes the con chair gets good seating, quite often is off elsewhere =
dealing with "adventures".

Best to volunteer . . . really.

mjw