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more wiscon
May. 28th, 2009 01:53 amI think i've been putting off this last wiscon wrap up(which may take more than one post) because if i wrap up, that makes the being done official. I may go back over shit i touched on already too.
Firs, yes, there was considerable fail. I already went the fuck off about some of it, and there was MORE! But theres always some fail, and there was a lot more WIN this years than other years, at least from how I saw it, so I will call the con overall a win. For me socially, it was a HUGE win, as I usually still have some of my awkwardness, even at wiscon, where I talk to people a little here and there but don't hang out with anyone much, and this ear I went ahead and hung out, in part because Z took the kids a lot, and in part because I finally found significant numbers of people I felt truly comfortable with, even though I was blown away by being surrounded with people cooler and smarter than me they were silly enough that I didn't feel too awkward.
people I met but didn't name drop in other posts yet, um, Oyceter, Unusual_music,both of whom I saw around the con but didn't officially meet until late monday night at the bar takeover, which was another fantastic time, involving a lot of the crew who had been at geekeoke, now that i think, plus even more cool people. There was sneaking up to 12 with Tempest and naamen for free bar drinks. Well, I snuck, they were up there legitimately, i just trailed them up there. I hung out with chrome kitten at and after karaoke, but then hardly saw her the rest of the con, like to really talk or anything. And I know i said it before, but i would up out to dinner with real authors! squee
'know, I met too many good people to keep listing. there was oursin, generaljinjur, popelizbet and kendra, thewayoftheid, and all my usual rockstars, ansai, badgerbag, mystickeeper, raanve, lovelokest, nadiya, seaya, littlebutfierce,
all of whom rock my world, let's just leave it at that.
the problem with the name drop posts, is that you always forget someone, and then they think it's cu you don't like them, and then you're all no, I just forgot, really I loff you" and they're like "but you forgot me *sob* n so it's bad. people i'm not namedropping in these posts, it's not because you don't rock.
Sunday we hit parties, and sinbad discovered the bellydancing party. all weekend she wanted a dance party, so that was good.
went to the last little bit of the netbook party while drunk and in an evening gown, and mananged to get ubuntu installed, thanks to empest for setting up my bios whatsit and, oh shit, i forgot his name for the USB and help.
id weird things with fashion for me all weekend, including wearing dresses both saturday and sunday, and it will probably be another year before i wear another dress, but the attention was interesting, and i met trouble because of it. I was somewhere in my usual inbetween the rest of the weekend, but with less jeans and t shirt, more effort to look shmancy a little. the outfit i liked best was friday, and if anyone got a pic of me in that, lemme know.
oh, and there were panels. I made it to the autorial intent one, and even got permission from the panel to record it, then had tech fail, and saw people were liveblogging it, so I gave up. It was a good panel, with a couple of ORLY moments, that have been addressed elsenet as well.
I almost left a panel in tears, not because of any content of the panel, but because there were so many knitters, and it was killing me to realize how much i miss knitting since my hands started going to shit.I was sitting right behind someone knitting, and grooving to her knit rhythm, and then i was sniffly. If I can learn to knit with my wrist braces on, I could still do it, but i don't know if that would work out. w
Firs, yes, there was considerable fail. I already went the fuck off about some of it, and there was MORE! But theres always some fail, and there was a lot more WIN this years than other years, at least from how I saw it, so I will call the con overall a win. For me socially, it was a HUGE win, as I usually still have some of my awkwardness, even at wiscon, where I talk to people a little here and there but don't hang out with anyone much, and this ear I went ahead and hung out, in part because Z took the kids a lot, and in part because I finally found significant numbers of people I felt truly comfortable with, even though I was blown away by being surrounded with people cooler and smarter than me they were silly enough that I didn't feel too awkward.
people I met but didn't name drop in other posts yet, um, Oyceter, Unusual_music,both of whom I saw around the con but didn't officially meet until late monday night at the bar takeover, which was another fantastic time, involving a lot of the crew who had been at geekeoke, now that i think, plus even more cool people. There was sneaking up to 12 with Tempest and naamen for free bar drinks. Well, I snuck, they were up there legitimately, i just trailed them up there. I hung out with chrome kitten at and after karaoke, but then hardly saw her the rest of the con, like to really talk or anything. And I know i said it before, but i would up out to dinner with real authors! squee
'know, I met too many good people to keep listing. there was oursin, generaljinjur, popelizbet and kendra, thewayoftheid, and all my usual rockstars, ansai, badgerbag, mystickeeper, raanve, lovelokest, nadiya, seaya, littlebutfierce,
all of whom rock my world, let's just leave it at that.
the problem with the name drop posts, is that you always forget someone, and then they think it's cu you don't like them, and then you're all no, I just forgot, really I loff you" and they're like "but you forgot me *sob* n so it's bad. people i'm not namedropping in these posts, it's not because you don't rock.
Sunday we hit parties, and sinbad discovered the bellydancing party. all weekend she wanted a dance party, so that was good.
went to the last little bit of the netbook party while drunk and in an evening gown, and mananged to get ubuntu installed, thanks to empest for setting up my bios whatsit and, oh shit, i forgot his name for the USB and help.
id weird things with fashion for me all weekend, including wearing dresses both saturday and sunday, and it will probably be another year before i wear another dress, but the attention was interesting, and i met trouble because of it. I was somewhere in my usual inbetween the rest of the weekend, but with less jeans and t shirt, more effort to look shmancy a little. the outfit i liked best was friday, and if anyone got a pic of me in that, lemme know.
oh, and there were panels. I made it to the autorial intent one, and even got permission from the panel to record it, then had tech fail, and saw people were liveblogging it, so I gave up. It was a good panel, with a couple of ORLY moments, that have been addressed elsenet as well.
I almost left a panel in tears, not because of any content of the panel, but because there were so many knitters, and it was killing me to realize how much i miss knitting since my hands started going to shit.I was sitting right behind someone knitting, and grooving to her knit rhythm, and then i was sniffly. If I can learn to knit with my wrist braces on, I could still do it, but i don't know if that would work out. w
