Now that we have a provisional program available I have been working on where I need to be when at Worldcon. The trusty iPhone is coming into its own here, because I can put all of my appointments in its calendar. I have also been totting up how busy I will be. My total commitments currently look like this:

• Thursday : 5.5 hours
• Friday: 9.0 hours
• Saturday: 10.5 hours
• Sunday: 9.0 hours
• Monday: 3.0 hours

The breakdown of activities is like this:

• Program participant: 11.5 hours
• Staff jobs: 6.5 hours
• WSFS Business: 8 hours
• Working for SFAW: 5 hours
• Attending panels: 6 hours

The SFAW work would have been a lot more had Anticipation not scheduled several award ceremonies opposite each other on Saturday, and scheduled me on a panel in the middle of that.

As you can see, I won’t get to see much of the program myself. I’m particularly disappointed that I am scheduled on a panel of my own opposite the International Fandom panel, but so it goes. No program schedule is perfect.

Of course this is by no means all I will be doing. It doesn’t include any mealtime meetings except the Masquerade Team breakfast on Thursday. I expect I’ll end up with a few lunch or breakfast meetings. It also doesn’t include parties. I’ll be expected to turn up at the Hugo Losers Party on Sunday; and there’s the Dead Dog on Monday, which is normally invaluable for getting material for the con report. And of course I will want to make time to take a look around the Dealers’ Room and Art Show. It also doesn’t include time for blogging, interviewing people and so on.

So if I end up exhausted by Monday night you’ll know why.