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Since I'm unpacking boxes (some of which have been packed for over a year now) and putting together office furniture and all that, I thought I'd take the opportunity to organize my papers a little better and put all of my scrawled-on-notebook-paper notes into appropriate files (such as "WisCon panel notes" and "poetry drafts" and "interesting doodles made while in anthropology courses"). While I was shuffling through all these bits of paper, deciding what to keep and what to discard, I saw several things that made me chuckle in the various WisCon papers.
1) Something like 25% of all of my WisCon panel notes have Karen's handwriting on them somewhere. Sometimes she's written an on-topic observation about the discussion. More often, she's responding to something snide that I wrote. I should probably destroy the evidence of my own poor behavior. But instead, I am labeling and filing it!
2) I should go ahead and introduce myself to people that I'm impressed by right away, instead of waiting a year or two. I've got "OMG I JUST SAW CAROLINE STEVERMER" written down, and then in the notebook from the next year, I have "CAROLINE STEVERMER TOLD ME HER LJ NAME." See? Cool people will be friends with me if I am brave enough to actually talk to them! ...But I will not stop being a fangirly dork, apparently. (seriously, my margin notes about various people I developed brain crushes on at the first WisCon I went to crack me up in light of how many of them are on my flist, now. "Jed Hartman = clever [underlined repeatedly] guy!!!" is one of my favorites for sheer, enthusiastic geekery. Jed, if you read this, please don't stop thinking I'm cool, okay?)
3) It's probably good that That Guy ended up backing out of the writer's workshop, after all, because my critique was way meaner than I remembered. Though I think "dream sequence on page ten is not [again with the multiple underlining] as interesting as you think it is" might be good advice for pretty much every writer.
The conclusions I draw from all of this are that I am, indeed, a massive geek, and also that I probably underline things too much.
1) Something like 25% of all of my WisCon panel notes have Karen's handwriting on them somewhere. Sometimes she's written an on-topic observation about the discussion. More often, she's responding to something snide that I wrote. I should probably destroy the evidence of my own poor behavior. But instead, I am labeling and filing it!
2) I should go ahead and introduce myself to people that I'm impressed by right away, instead of waiting a year or two. I've got "OMG I JUST SAW CAROLINE STEVERMER" written down, and then in the notebook from the next year, I have "CAROLINE STEVERMER TOLD ME HER LJ NAME." See? Cool people will be friends with me if I am brave enough to actually talk to them! ...But I will not stop being a fangirly dork, apparently. (seriously, my margin notes about various people I developed brain crushes on at the first WisCon I went to crack me up in light of how many of them are on my flist, now. "Jed Hartman = clever [underlined repeatedly] guy!!!" is one of my favorites for sheer, enthusiastic geekery. Jed, if you read this, please don't stop thinking I'm cool, okay?)
3) It's probably good that That Guy ended up backing out of the writer's workshop, after all, because my critique was way meaner than I remembered. Though I think "dream sequence on page ten is not [again with the multiple underlining] as interesting as you think it is" might be good advice for pretty much every writer.
The conclusions I draw from all of this are that I am, indeed, a massive geek, and also that I probably underline things too much.
