rivka | (no subject)

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

ahem. you heard about the strauss/scalzi goh swap, yes? strauss has to stay home due to family needs, so we are having john scalzi instead.

broiled. with lemon butter.

er, not that last part. but yes, john scalzi.

I am!

P.

I am.

Me, too.

I haven't been for something along the lines of 20 years. I'm guessing you're thinking of attending. If so I'd like to meet up with you. I know there've been a LJ party for the past umpity years, so...

Me!

I was going to go because I wanted to meet Charlie, but now I'm planning to go because it's fun to hang out with John. And to meet you, if you're coming!

YOU SHOULD COME TO WISCON. Why don't you ever come to Wiscon? You would LOVE Wiscon. And they have free childcare.

I am planning to, though I need to do all the logistics and stuff (getting the time off, buying flights, etc).

We are, of course!

K.

Hi, this is my life which does not allow for planning 3 months ahead right now. (Plus the fact I'm running something in March which is likely to eat any bit of residual budget I might have handy, as I really need to stay on site for that.)

But if I am in the state, I am very amiable indeed about meeting people for a meal-like thing, etc.

I'll be there!

YOU SHOULD COME TO WISCON. Why don't you ever come to Wiscon? You would LOVE Wiscon.

Um. People keep telling me that, and then everything else I hear about Wiscon is how dramatastic and stressful and full of fail things are. It's not very encouraging.

But you probably assumed that.

B

wiscon is trying harder on a lot of issues out there, which means that when we fail, people are more disappointed in us than they would be in someone who didn't even try. this a) sucks, and b) is totally fair.

that said, we are having a year of YAFGE, but we are, in my working on the concom opinion, learning and growing from it.

besides, if you come and you hate the con, you can blow it off and spend the weekend on state street, which is amazingly fabulous. i will go for tapas with you! and sushi! and greek food! and mexican! and some other stuff!

I'm still going back and forth. I'd really like to go because I haven't gone for a few years. But I have two cats on psych meds and I don't know that a babysitting service could handle that, and one would kill the other. So I'll probably stay home.

Wiscon is not dramatastic. The Wiscon Internet community can be incredibly dramatastic but the con, much less so.

Not that it is immune to drama, but the Internet drama has probably caused you to imagine far more drama than you would typically find at Wiscon. Honestly. (Although, there was the time everyone got the stomach flu. But that wasn't anyone's fault -- basically, once something like norovirus starts circulating in an enclosed environment like a hotel, it will spread. All it takes is a patient zero to start the plague.)

I don't mean the Wiscon concom, many of whom are my friends. I mean the whole circle of Internet complaint, countercomplaint, accusation and response that seems to precede and follow every Wiscon.

Some of it has definitely been important and useful anti-bias work, but that doesn't mean it's how I necessarily want to spend my free time.

but TAPAS.

i'm just saying.

i was co-coordinator that year. that was different, she says, in a very minnesotan way. (i was the bald one.)

Do you think Michael would like Wiscon?