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Wisconfidence!
May. 27th, 2010 11:23 pmThe advice in yesterday's placeholder about checking back Tuesday if you didn't want to keep refreshing was because that was the day I ~knew~ I'd have decent internet access by. As it turned out, the wireless here in the Concourse Hotel runs fabulously and there are a bunch of places nearby that also have wifi. I didn't know that yesterday, though, and my travel experiences are teaching me to never make those kinds of assumptions. It worked out well.
I understand there was a spate of impatient comments on the placeholder, but that's why I don't read moderate any more. Imagine if, after settling down in the comfy hotel lobby chair with my laptop and getting connected, I'd gone and read and responded to those comments. Whether I sat there and figured out how to be polite and conciliatory, or tore into the commenters... or whatever... it would have been far less productive than just getting the story posted.
Anyway, I'm at the end of a very long day (started at 6 a.m. Eastern time, after not much more than four hours of sleep). I'm alone in a hotel room at the moment, which at some point in the night is going to fill up with the folks from Tennessee. The con proper starts tomorrow, and I'm very excited... I came so close to canceling my plane tickets so many times, I was convinced nothing would come of being here... so far things have been fairly awesome. I'm kind of surprised how many people know me here. I had a bit of an interesting experience of introducing myself by first name to someone before we got our badges, and then finding out she knew my work after she saw my full nom des tubes on the name tag. I also looked right through my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong two or three times before registration opened. My facial recognition software needs an update.
So, I'm here. If you're here, too, feel free to say hi. Not right this moment, that would be kind of both rude and freaky since I'm shut up in a hotel room and about to get ready to go to sleep. But if you see me in the halls... I have a Tinkerbell glowy clip on my name tag and I'll be wearing my Amazing Technicolor Dream Skirt at the Gathering tomorrow (you'll know it if you see it.)
I understand there was a spate of impatient comments on the placeholder, but that's why I don't read moderate any more. Imagine if, after settling down in the comfy hotel lobby chair with my laptop and getting connected, I'd gone and read and responded to those comments. Whether I sat there and figured out how to be polite and conciliatory, or tore into the commenters... or whatever... it would have been far less productive than just getting the story posted.
Anyway, I'm at the end of a very long day (started at 6 a.m. Eastern time, after not much more than four hours of sleep). I'm alone in a hotel room at the moment, which at some point in the night is going to fill up with the folks from Tennessee. The con proper starts tomorrow, and I'm very excited... I came so close to canceling my plane tickets so many times, I was convinced nothing would come of being here... so far things have been fairly awesome. I'm kind of surprised how many people know me here. I had a bit of an interesting experience of introducing myself by first name to someone before we got our badges, and then finding out she knew my work after she saw my full nom des tubes on the name tag. I also looked right through my friend
shadesong two or three times before registration opened. My facial recognition software needs an update.So, I'm here. If you're here, too, feel free to say hi. Not right this moment, that would be kind of both rude and freaky since I'm shut up in a hotel room and about to get ready to go to sleep. But if you see me in the halls... I have a Tinkerbell glowy clip on my name tag and I'll be wearing my Amazing Technicolor Dream Skirt at the Gathering tomorrow (you'll know it if you see it.)