Getting ready for Worldcon

Although I'm not heading to Glasgow until Friday, I've spent the last couple of evenings trying to get materials ready for Worldcon. In addition to my own working documents and travel/accomodation details, I've been trying to sort some sort of promotional materials for Battlecorps, the Classic BattleTech online fiction site, such as business cards and some posters.

To be honest, as I've never been to a Worldcon before I really don't know what to expect there - how easy it will be do do any promotions, what to expect from the attendees and events. There are some people I hope to meet up with - friends, writing colleagues and authors I enjoy - but I'm not sure how practical that will be - events start today, but I'm only there for the weekend so I'll have to see if all can be squeezed in. Most will be played "by ear" - the only fixed element of the weekend is the Hugo awards that I'm hoping to attend on Saturday night (in the Clyde Auditorium I believe).

I have the joys of two long train journeys too - 5 hours on Friday and 6 on Sunday (and to put things in context, it's less than 3 hours to Paris from here ...) so I guess there'll be time for writing and some games playing on the iBook.