Baycon: Monday, and wrap-up

[mdlbear]

Not much to say about load-out day, except that we would have been able to check out a lot sooner if we hadn't had to wait so long for a table in the coffeeshop, or an elevator down that wasn't completely full. Would have taken forever if a maid hadn't shown us where the service elevator was. They would have done better if they'd allowed people to get late checkout, which would have spread out the peak a little, but they didn't. They would also have done better if they'd been faster at turning around tables in the restaurant.

Took cflute to the airport in the early afternoon. A nice chat in the car, but too short.

Colleen's main mode of social interaction at conventions has always been to plop herself down either in the lobby, filk lounge, or (at filk cons) con suite, and collect a group of people around her. These days I, on the other hand, prefer to have a series of one-on-one or small-group conversations, and gravitate in the evening toward the smallest available circle. Often I'll latch onto one person, as I did with Callie this con and pocketnaomi at Conflikt, especially if we seem to have a lot to talk about.

I seem to be rather bad about finding new people to talk to; usually I'll talk to the ones I know. Sometimes friends of the ones I know. I'm still shy, and have trouble starting conversations with people I don't know. Feel free to come up and talk to me, though. Remind me of your name, if it isn't on your badge, and maybe where we met; I'll have forgotten.

Comments

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I have always thought that conversations with just one other person at a time are more manageable. Saying something so you can understand it doesn't necessarily mean that some other person will understand the same thing from the same words. The more people, the more likely that someone will hear something unintended, and even moreso, the more likely that you won't realize this in time to (at least try to) fix it.

[mdlbear]

I simply don't multitask very well, and I know it. That said, small-group conversations have a very different dynamic, and I like one or the other depending on what's going on.

Often I'll get to know somebody new because I got drawn into a conversation they were having with somebody I do know. And sometimes talking with a couple one can get caught up more quickly and not have to repeat oneself.