pre-OVFF

Our Interfilk package description (click on image for larger version).



Ok, I've added a couple of items to our Interfilk package: an Urban Tapestry tote bag and a copy of my book (now out of print). Please click on the image above for details.

Crazybusy, trying to get workstuff and OVFFprepstuff done before I leave for Columbus tomorrow for OVFF. Jodi and I are heading down tomorrow; Allison will join us on Friday.

I took a peek at the preliminary program. Wow, I can already tell it's going to be a busy weekend. So many great programming items I'd like to check out, but also so many filk friends I haven't seen in ages. Yikes.

To non-filkers out there: This has always been a quandary for me. Conventions like this have so many concerts and workshops I'd like to attend as well as the evening music circles, but over the 20+ years I've been in filk, I've developed friendships with people I only tend to see at these conventions, several from overseas.

To guarantee that you'll have any actual one-on-one conversations with a particular person, you have to schedule ahead of time, else trust that you'll both find an opportunity during the weekend. I usually have to opt for the latter since I very rarely schedule this sort of thing ahead of time; for me that would be worse, having most of my weekend already set in stone weeks before the event because of booked "meetings" and rehearsals and programming commitments (unless I'm a guest of the convention, of course!), with little flexibility for anything else.

Rand and I always try to get together for Sunday brunch at conventions we're both attending; other than that, I generally like to leave things open until I get there if I'm not a guest. My favourite weekend moments usually take place outside of scheduled programming...a mini jam session that springs up in a corner of the lobby, for instance, a hallway conversation, an impromptu room filk.

And this year, my pal Scott Snyder is Toastmaster! And Rand & Adam are Guests of Hono(u)r!

Geez, I am SO looking forward to this weekend.

ONE MORE DAY.

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