WisCon Day 1
May. 22nd, 2009 11:50 pmA great day at WisCon! It is going Awesomely! Well, it is overwhelming of course, but I am a *lot* more relaxed than last year.
I fell down on the job a little with Access stuff but the blue taping did get done eventually.
Have met tons of people and briefly seen many friends. Had dinner with whumpdotcom and cynthia1960 and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cabell.
Have had a headache all day. Effing headaches!!
Our panel on "Rethinking Disabling Metaphors" was just GREAT. Jesse the K, Elisem, Georgie S and I were on it, and the audience was really into it.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
futuransky, brdgt, antarcticlust, dersteinkauz, were all there, and lots of other thoughtful folks. It was super fun and we came up with some fun replacement pejoratives like "just planting weeds", "burnt stew", "doesn't hold water", and things that aren't ableist. Also I talked about the "good crutch" metaphor.
Dropped by the parties and went to first part of Bastard Gods panel. Almost went to "Not another Effing Race Panel" but friends pulled me out to go to parties instead. Those Senate-room lights bother me pretty bad anyway and the parties were at least darker.
Now off to bed! Wish I had more time for people! Why can't WisCon be all the time! Thank goodness for the intenet! Oh, I will make a separate locked post with my phone number so y'all can call me.
I fell down on the job a little with Access stuff but the blue taping did get done eventually.
Have met tons of people and briefly seen many friends. Had dinner with whumpdotcom and cynthia1960 and
cabell.Have had a headache all day. Effing headaches!!
Our panel on "Rethinking Disabling Metaphors" was just GREAT. Jesse the K, Elisem, Georgie S and I were on it, and the audience was really into it.
futuransky, brdgt, antarcticlust, dersteinkauz, were all there, and lots of other thoughtful folks. It was super fun and we came up with some fun replacement pejoratives like "just planting weeds", "burnt stew", "doesn't hold water", and things that aren't ableist. Also I talked about the "good crutch" metaphor. Dropped by the parties and went to first part of Bastard Gods panel. Almost went to "Not another Effing Race Panel" but friends pulled me out to go to parties instead. Those Senate-room lights bother me pretty bad anyway and the parties were at least darker.
Now off to bed! Wish I had more time for people! Why can't WisCon be all the time! Thank goodness for the intenet! Oh, I will make a separate locked post with my phone number so y'all can call me.
