Convention, Day 1
Apr. 10th, 2009 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisAnother night of four hours' sleep. Gotta do better soon.
Morning at the registration desk was pretty rough as my scheduled volunteers didn't show. As best I could, I set up the desk while juggling a wave of dancers seeking their registration packets, directions or help in a variety of issues. In the middle of this, I still had to compile attendance statistics for the opening ceremonies only 2 hours later, then print the labels we needed for the banquet, brunch and fun badge tour seating.
I continued fading through the course of the day. It was a struggle to keep my head together long enough to compile the final banquet and brunch entree numbers (867 place settings) and pass the lot to the hotel management by 4 PM.
Once the numbers were given to the kitchen staff, I was largely off the hook for the rest of the day. The space to decompress was a welcome change. Indeed, the balance of my work will largely be centered around putting out fires as they come up rather than working registration issues. Oddly though, there are still 35 people who pre-registered but haven't collected their docs yet; I'm hopeful they simply had to work Friday and will be collecting their materials Saturday morning.
To sleep now, perchance to snore.
Morning at the registration desk was pretty rough as my scheduled volunteers didn't show. As best I could, I set up the desk while juggling a wave of dancers seeking their registration packets, directions or help in a variety of issues. In the middle of this, I still had to compile attendance statistics for the opening ceremonies only 2 hours later, then print the labels we needed for the banquet, brunch and fun badge tour seating.
I continued fading through the course of the day. It was a struggle to keep my head together long enough to compile the final banquet and brunch entree numbers (867 place settings) and pass the lot to the hotel management by 4 PM.
Once the numbers were given to the kitchen staff, I was largely off the hook for the rest of the day. The space to decompress was a welcome change. Indeed, the balance of my work will largely be centered around putting out fires as they come up rather than working registration issues. Oddly though, there are still 35 people who pre-registered but haven't collected their docs yet; I'm hopeful they simply had to work Friday and will be collecting their materials Saturday morning.
To sleep now, perchance to snore.
