Conventional Thinking
Nov. 18th, 2004 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakConventional Thinking
I, Mishalak, swear that I'll never...
1. Run a science fiction, anime, or other fannish convention.
2. Do even half of the following if I can't manage to follow through on number one.
3. Schedule a guest of honor, or indeed much of anything, opposite opening ceremonies.
4. Engage in a coup d'etat against the organizing committee. Particularly not in the final month before the convention.
5. Spend money the convention doesn't have or have any conservative expectation of getting.
6. Refuse to delegate tasks I cannot do to maintain my own little tightly controlled empire of nothing getting done unless it gets done the way I want it to.
7. Announce a project/event and keep it in the schedule/progress reports without anyone assigned to organize it.
8. Put up and leave up misdirecting signs.
9. Make constant programming changes during the convention.
10. Allow every masquerade entry to take 10 minutes to recite a monologue to go with their costume. Heck they shouldn't get more than one minute on stage.
11. Allow conrunners to use the con to promote their religion or political party.
12. Attempt to strangle other committee members.
13. Make useful volunteers feel like they aren't needed or appreciated.
14. Fail to advertize the convention and then wonder why no one shows up.
15. Endlessly claim that other fans are out to get me and that's why my con is failing.
I'll add to this as I think of things/get suggestions.
I, Mishalak, swear that I'll never...
1. Run a science fiction, anime, or other fannish convention.
2. Do even half of the following if I can't manage to follow through on number one.
3. Schedule a guest of honor, or indeed much of anything, opposite opening ceremonies.
4. Engage in a coup d'etat against the organizing committee. Particularly not in the final month before the convention.
5. Spend money the convention doesn't have or have any conservative expectation of getting.
6. Refuse to delegate tasks I cannot do to maintain my own little tightly controlled empire of nothing getting done unless it gets done the way I want it to.
7. Announce a project/event and keep it in the schedule/progress reports without anyone assigned to organize it.
8. Put up and leave up misdirecting signs.
9. Make constant programming changes during the convention.
10. Allow every masquerade entry to take 10 minutes to recite a monologue to go with their costume. Heck they shouldn't get more than one minute on stage.
11. Allow conrunners to use the con to promote their religion or political party.
12. Attempt to strangle other committee members.
13. Make useful volunteers feel like they aren't needed or appreciated.
14. Fail to advertize the convention and then wonder why no one shows up.
15. Endlessly claim that other fans are out to get me and that's why my con is failing.
I'll add to this as I think of things/get suggestions.