Today was relatively lightly loaded. It started off with a Masquerade team meeting over breakfast at Eggspectation. We were then supposed to set up the Masquerade desk in the registration area, but this took a while and in the meantime I managed to get registered and pick up a bit of gossip.

The con seems to be going fairly well. I was a bit worried when I saw that they were printing badges at Registration, but the system worked smoothly and the lines were fairly small. The program schedule is rather confusing, with overlapping time slots, and Program Ops doesn’t appear to have any runners to keep panels to time, but so far nothing appears to have gone badly wrong.

My first panel was at 2:00pm, and I ended up moderating it as two of the panelists were late. It was on handling the mainstream media, and it went fairly well. The panelists all had good expertise, and people had sensible, constructive points to make from the audience. You may be able to hear the whole thing online as it was recorded by the Thru The Wormhole guys, of whom I will have more to say over on ConReporter.com.

One of the highlights of the show so far is the giant steampunk robot that can be found near the art show. I have a picture here. I haven’t been into the Art Show or Dealers’ Room yet, but they look fairly small.

Kevin and I have survived out first day of WSFS duties. Today was the meeting of the Mark Protection Committee which formally accepted and approved the report of the Hugo Marketing Committee. This is a good thing, and it means that Hugo marketing in moving forward.

And finally, I have indulged in a little Feminist activism. More of that in the next post.