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.
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.
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 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.
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.)
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Date: 2011-01-31 04:51 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-01-31 12:43 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-01-31 04:51 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2011-02-01 08:52 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-02-01 08:54 pm (UTC)i'm just saying.
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 03:24 am (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2011-02-01 08:58 pm (UTC)