Worldcon approaches

[owlmoose]

So this should be the time for me to write a happy squeeful post about how much I'm looking forward to Worldcon, which is what, three weeks away at this point? It's been harder to get purely excited about it, though, because from my position as an outside observer, this con seems to have been badly managed from day zero, starting with how long it took for the hotel room reservation system to go live ("sometime right after Worldcon 75" turned into "late November" with very little communication from the concom). Then over this weekend everything pretty much exploded -- if you haven't been following along, Alex Acks has a good and thorough overview of the various fails at Book Riot -- and although the con has ultimately taken action to fix the most egregious of the issues, in good ways (they have apologized and accepted offers of help, both steps in the right direction), I am not inspired to a ton of confidence.

And yet, I am still getting excited. If nothing else, I know I will see some friends, and meet a number of very cool people in person for the first time, and probably meet other people I haven't even heard of yet. It's Worldcon in my backyard, and I've been looking forward to it for at least two years, and I am not going to let this series of screwups sap my joy (though I totally understand why other people might not feel the same).

At this point we don't have any sort of formal ladybusiness meet-up scheduled, but renay and justira will both be there, so I'm sure we'll do a BarCon meeting at some point -- watch this space for details. Will you be there? Let me know to look for you!