Packing For Lunacon

[dr_pretentious]

I'm off to Lunacon tomorrow to flog the books and manifest my Vortex of Schmooze powers. I'll be reading an excerpt from Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply at the Rapid Fire Reading with several fellow members of Broad Universe. Thanks are due Danielle Ackley-McPhail for getting in touch with the con committee at the last reasonable moment and getting the reading on the program, and for offering a little space on her merchanting table for books by us Broads. CDs of my Rugosa stories will be at her table, and that's not a bad place to look for me, if you're looking.

Thanks are also due tracyandrook, who's coming to help with the baby-wrangling. Dan and I have tried going to cons with Gareth in tow, and two adults per child is not enough to allow one of the adults to work the room and the other adult to have any fun at all. We're hoping three adults per child works better.

Here I am with a giant packing list of stuff we'll need to flog the book and other stuff we'll need to keep Gareth fed, clean, warm, and amused. I need to spend a couple of hours running around my house like a madwoman, gathering objects without waking the boy, and then bustling them out to the car tonight, because loading a car while on baby duty is a five-handed job, and even with Tracy's help we'll only have four available hands. All Gareth's naps tomorrow will happen in the car at times when I'm driving, which means No Naps for Mommy. I have to get to bed early.

So naturally my television picks tonight to offer me an Ani DiFranco concert.

I'm not a fool for television, but oh, I am a fool for Ani. Have been for fifteen years. I first heard her when she traveled to gigs by Greyhound bus for a hundred bucks, a cup of coffee, and a chance to sell her songs on cassette tapes she hauled around in a secondhand camera box.

Oh, hey. That's not so far ahead of where I am now. When I started writing this post, I actually hadn't put that together yet. All right then.

Comments

[theunveiling.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO! Have fun at the con. I saw Ani for the first time in 1994 in Buffalo on the NAPG tour. SWEET!

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

I too love Ani. Hope you got to peek a bit at the concert.

We're hoping three adults per child works better.

A semi-convincing case for polyamory could be made to my monogamists heart when it comes to family life - I'm glad she's able to help you out!

And may I say again, how much I'm looking forward to Atlantis Cranks? I'm re-reading Closing Arguments on my sick bed right now and enjoying it muchly.

Have fun.

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

You know I have often wondered why women don't sprout another set of arms when we get pregnant. Okay, I do understand why it doesn't happen but it would make the child wrangling so much easier! And the No Naps for Mommy part is just miserable (I have become very familiar with that situation). Today I had no nap or even much of a break because I had to drive to LI and back to leave my 3 year old with the grandparents for the weekend. We will be going to Lunacon with only a 3 month old and all her necessary accessories. Which I still need to go pack up. We will see how that goes. See you tomorrow.

BTW, at least you are selling your books out of your car and not dealing with a Grayhound bus trip--especially with a toddler.