Afterwards

[raino]

The con is over and I'm trying to adjust back to normal world. For example by pulling an all-nighter to finish a paying job which had been run over by con-arranging... and now I'm tired and have a sore throat and should clean up the house since it's all messy because of con stuff and my work stuff and it would be nice to surprise husband with a neat house after him being practically a single dad for the past month.

I screwed up some things but on the whole I'm pretty surprised how well I managed to organise my particular section of that event. I guess I would not have volunteered if I had figured out just *how* much work it would be or at least tried harder to split the workload to more people. Anyway, I'm not dissatisfied. For whatever reason, acute stress experienced with co-volunteers at a con is an enjoyable experience, I guess much the same as extreme sports. Running around organising things, giving orders to gophers, gulping down a quick coffee at the volunteer lounge and all the time feeling surrounded by my own sort of people... Real life feels boring and empty in contrast.

But I could not do this more often, I just look in amazement at people who organise cons year-round. Just how do they have the energy????

Comments

[cordjostler]

Congrats on making the event happen! It's no easy task.

I guess "event drop" is a real thing, regardless of what kind of event it is.

[jesse_the_k]

Whoa -- are you talking WorldCon drop? I can only imagine that's 100 times worse than local-con drop.

[rueckenfigur]

From the timing of your post I suspect you are talking about Worldcon, right? If so, wow, that's a massive and super complex event to be involved in running!!! (I've only been to one worldcon as an attendee (Loncon) and was overwhelmed by the sheer masses of people). Hope the con blues isn't too bad!