Bookworm training last night -
Apr. 8th, 2009 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgWow, that was a juggle - but doable, and done.
Changes, as one might expect - all of it downsizing on staff doing the Festival on the part of the Los Angeles Times (c'mon, you know what's been going on, right? Go talk to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reannon if you need a thumbnail sketch of what's going on in the print journalism industry today), and they've dropped the [REDACTED] colored wristbands for costumed entertainers.
So yeah, we may have a repeat performance of the ROGUE CLOWNS incident of years past. (Me, I'm just waiting for the cosplay.) My hall is again right next to the Comic Strip (no joke), so yeah.
I am back at Dodd Hall on Saturday, which is the mystery writers panel building - Stephen J. Cannell is going to be in the first panel, and I am sorely tempted to bring my 21 Jump St jacket with me to say hi. It's been 21 years since I worked for him - I wouldn't mind.
Hmm. Last panel is at 3:00 PM - I'll be done inside an hour of that. I may have an hour to go see a few things! (Like jetting over to see Pico Iyer after his panel at 3:30!)
Guys, panels like you can't get at a con, for FREE. (Or nearly free - you order tickets ahead of time, you have to pay a .75 handling fee...and if you don't transit it, you have to pay parking. Whoop whoop.)
You love books - or just want to find some depth in the less than popular topics? (Seriously. You want something on gay studies, Islam, Buddhism, Hawaiian language, fiber arts...pick a topic...you will find a booth dealing with nothing but, perhaps more than one.) And the venue is the lovely UCLA campus - one of the prettiest campuses I've ever seen.
How many ways can I say this. (And I still can't figure out why more of my writer buds off the FL don't know, aren't coming and WTF is up with that - *grump*)
I have a couple of events I don't miss - primary because they are just the best bang for no buck - one is Nisei Week in Little Tokyo, and then there's this one. Seriously.
Got home last night to discover the kid had conked out THUD fifteen minutes before I got there (oh well), but popped up less than an hour later not quite awake. It would seem our kid is a bit of a sleepwalker, particularly if the day has been jam-packed and he didn't get a bathroom stop on the way to bed. It's not uncommon in any toddler cross-section, but it's particularly common in international adoptees and the CW on why is it's an overloaded processing grid. He can pop up crying and not really notice us there - we cuddle, put back down and he just drops right back off and sleeps normally (or needs a bathroom break, gets it and ditto).
Another thing to educate Jim about - this runs in my family, and I myself found myself upside down in Dad's golf bag once upon a time. In the garage.
This morning's drop-off at daycare went smoother, so I'm more at ease as well.
Changes, as one might expect - all of it downsizing on staff doing the Festival on the part of the Los Angeles Times (c'mon, you know what's been going on, right? Go talk to
reannon if you need a thumbnail sketch of what's going on in the print journalism industry today), and they've dropped the [REDACTED] colored wristbands for costumed entertainers.So yeah, we may have a repeat performance of the ROGUE CLOWNS incident of years past. (Me, I'm just waiting for the cosplay.) My hall is again right next to the Comic Strip (no joke), so yeah.
I am back at Dodd Hall on Saturday, which is the mystery writers panel building - Stephen J. Cannell is going to be in the first panel, and I am sorely tempted to bring my 21 Jump St jacket with me to say hi. It's been 21 years since I worked for him - I wouldn't mind.
Hmm. Last panel is at 3:00 PM - I'll be done inside an hour of that. I may have an hour to go see a few things! (Like jetting over to see Pico Iyer after his panel at 3:30!)
Guys, panels like you can't get at a con, for FREE. (Or nearly free - you order tickets ahead of time, you have to pay a .75 handling fee...and if you don't transit it, you have to pay parking. Whoop whoop.)
You love books - or just want to find some depth in the less than popular topics? (Seriously. You want something on gay studies, Islam, Buddhism, Hawaiian language, fiber arts...pick a topic...you will find a booth dealing with nothing but, perhaps more than one.) And the venue is the lovely UCLA campus - one of the prettiest campuses I've ever seen.
How many ways can I say this. (And I still can't figure out why more of my writer buds off the FL don't know, aren't coming and WTF is up with that - *grump*)
I have a couple of events I don't miss - primary because they are just the best bang for no buck - one is Nisei Week in Little Tokyo, and then there's this one. Seriously.
Got home last night to discover the kid had conked out THUD fifteen minutes before I got there (oh well), but popped up less than an hour later not quite awake. It would seem our kid is a bit of a sleepwalker, particularly if the day has been jam-packed and he didn't get a bathroom stop on the way to bed. It's not uncommon in any toddler cross-section, but it's particularly common in international adoptees and the CW on why is it's an overloaded processing grid. He can pop up crying and not really notice us there - we cuddle, put back down and he just drops right back off and sleeps normally (or needs a bathroom break, gets it and ditto).
Another thing to educate Jim about - this runs in my family, and I myself found myself upside down in Dad's golf bag once upon a time. In the garage.
This morning's drop-off at daycare went smoother, so I'm more at ease as well.
