This past weekend I did Geek Girl Con. Two day convention center con, sit there in the dealers room selling stuff and having awkward tiny conversations all day.
Usually after working a con I am drained; all I want to do is lie around in a dark room and do nothing for a day or two. I am used to this happening to the point where I build my work schedules around it.
But this morning I woke up and the prospect of doing nothing in a dark room feels kind of appalling. What the heck. Have I finally gotten good enough at Doing A Con that I can handle a two-day con without it being the major drain on my resources it normally is?
It certainly helped that I had few worries this time; it was a relatively cheap con and local to me, so it was easy to cover my costs while making a modest profit and hopefully making a bunch of new fans. I never sat there fretting that I wouldn't make a profit; to be honest I kinda went in there not quite caring if I made much of one.
I guess I am becoming an old hand at doing cons.
Must be time to make things harder, then. Which I plan to do this year at Emerald City Comic-Con, assuming they ever get around to telling me if the group I sorta run has a couple of booths or not.