Eeee! I'm signing up to be on panels at WisCon! Um -- I'm -- what if they pick me to be on panels? Do I need to be shaking in fear now? How do they pick people for these things anyway?
I mean, I want to be picked, I'm just nervous about it. Because you never know if you're going to get on a panel that has four people in the audience or eighty, and you never know if you're going to be on a panel where the moderator is good or lousy, and you never know if fatigue or hunger or the Black Hole of Conventions is going to get you at a bad moment. It's just -- when I go to panels at conventions, my reaction tends to be either
a) Oh, wow, this person is so smart and well-informed about various theoretical perspectives. I could never do that!
b) This person is shallow, or overly self-promoting, or annoying, or doesn't understand very elementary things. I really, really, really don't want to be this person.
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a) Oh, wow, this person is so smart and well-informed about various theoretical perspectives. I could never do that!
b) This person is shallow, or overly self-promoting, or annoying, or doesn't understand very elementary things. I really, really, really don't want to be this person.
I could just try being less judgemental. ;)