Antonia Forest Conference

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

The Antonia Forest Conference is rapidly approaching ... and as this is my very first non-work-related, non-professional, purely-voluntary conference EVER, I am starting to get slightly nervous. It occurs to me that I have no idea what sort of people go to such things. Will everyone there know one another except for me? Will they all be madly intellectual or greet one another with secret handshakes? If you meet people who are members of AF forums, will they identify themselves as such or are internet personas secret identities which are never to be revealed in Real Life?

Therefore my question - how many Trennels members will be at the conference? Does anyone know how many attendees there will in fact be? And if there is a special handshake - can someone let me know how it goes???

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[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

It's probably a bit late to arrange 'Trennels Member' (and, of course, 'Trennels Anonymouse') badges, alas. :(

Darn. If we'd thought of it, you could have done everyone their own icon T-shirt :-)

Are we likely to get name badges or stickers or anything anyone know? If so, those who want to be identified could always add their LJ username. It would save going up to total strangers and muttering "are you leapingirbis?" and have them write you off for the rest of the conference as being totally insane.

I've met quite a few people who are going but they are all from different places - 2 different local book groups, girlsown and here and I'm not quite sure how they will mix.