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I am home. I have slept. And I miss everyone more than I can say. The six days making up the Azkatraz Experience were amazing, exhausting, incredible, and overwhelming. I don't know what our final numbers were but I do know that over a thousand people participated in the weekend. Our special guests were all incredibly special - Chris Rankin, you are a gentleman! I know, as a group, we were exhausting, and you were an absolute peach about the whole thing (and while I did not actually watch you karaoke "Summer Lovin'" with my best friend, I did hear some of it - LOL).
All the MPA track guests were fascinating - and I know not a lot of people took advantage of the MPA track on Monday - but it was the highlight of my weekend. The whole day was incredibly special - and even someone who s not versed in the law or business found it all incredibly fascinating. Lev Grossman, Fred von Lohmann, Elizabeth Bland, Susan Gunelius, the 20Q folk, the Dreamwidth folk, and everyone else speaking MPA track (whose names I can not remember, and I am too tired to dig out my program book to look them up) were all incredibly fascinating and insightful. I wish I had had the bandwidth to sit down with each to talk more in depth about some of the things they only hinted at. Monique Trottier, who basically put together this unique track did an exemplary job.
I don't know how we do it, but HPEF finds THE best people to be volunteers. Our special guests chair, our heads of Security, our formal programming folk, Vendor room coordinator - all some of the best people I know.
Our fundraising for various charities went swimmingly. The auction brought in some much appreciated funds for Kids Need To Read Foundation. The Jail and Bail did the same forHP Alliance whoops! I meant the Prisoner Literature Project. We did something else for HP Alliance. And the item we set aside at the auction for a Judith Krug memorial also fetched a pretty good sum for the ALA (Judith was our very first keynote speaker back at Nimbus - 2003, she passed away earlier this year).
So. Something like 358 days to Infinitus. But a little bird told me Harry Potter the Exhibition is coming to Boston in October. Who's up for a little reunion?
All the MPA track guests were fascinating - and I know not a lot of people took advantage of the MPA track on Monday - but it was the highlight of my weekend. The whole day was incredibly special - and even someone who s not versed in the law or business found it all incredibly fascinating. Lev Grossman, Fred von Lohmann, Elizabeth Bland, Susan Gunelius, the 20Q folk, the Dreamwidth folk, and everyone else speaking MPA track (whose names I can not remember, and I am too tired to dig out my program book to look them up) were all incredibly fascinating and insightful. I wish I had had the bandwidth to sit down with each to talk more in depth about some of the things they only hinted at. Monique Trottier, who basically put together this unique track did an exemplary job.
I don't know how we do it, but HPEF finds THE best people to be volunteers. Our special guests chair, our heads of Security, our formal programming folk, Vendor room coordinator - all some of the best people I know.
Our fundraising for various charities went swimmingly. The auction brought in some much appreciated funds for Kids Need To Read Foundation. The Jail and Bail did the same for
So. Something like 358 days to Infinitus. But a little bird told me Harry Potter the Exhibition is coming to Boston in October. Who's up for a little reunion?
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And yeah, I still haven't seen the video, either. I ran a foot bath while everyone else watched it at the dead dog.