Con report of sorts

[barbarienne]

I need to quit going to cons. I don't attend that many panels, and my friends are busy running around like crazy people so I don't actually see them. That's a lot of money to not get what I'm looking for. I should spend it on solo vacations

Comments

[oracne]

I spent most of it with my former-workshop friend Ricardo, and he was the same - he hadn't been to a con since a World Fantasy in London, and said he wouldn't have come if I hadn't been going.

[barbarienne]

It doesn't really matter who's going. Lots and lots of my friends are there. I just barely saw any of them.

[oracne]

Me, too, but I focused on the ones I didn't usually see.

[ospreys_view]

I get what you are feeling. It's why I haven't been to a con in years.

[dulcimeoww]

A polite way to leave a panel like that is to start in place and suddenly look intently at your phone, then make apologetic bowing motions to anybody looking as you hustle out of the room without taking your attention from the phone at all. Your companion can follow in your wake, looking vaguely harassed and apologetic as she does so. Nobody will feel dissed, because it's obviously some sort of urgent thing you have to deal with and otherwise there's no way you'd leave, right?

I've been getting con fatigue, too. I think next year I will attend no conventions, unless they happen to be in Korea in the same city where I'm living, in which case curiosity will compel me to stop by for a day.