Water-proof shoes, when I remember to wear them, are totally awesome. I don’t think my feet have ever been this dry!
Wonderment at dry feet aside, I am totally ready for spring. Everything is perpetually damp and steamy, and I forget what the sun looks like. I think bringing Sally out last weekend was dreadfully premature – she’s soggy and sad, parked on the street like that. Tonight we’re going to bring her back up onto the sidewalk and wait to see if it’ll ever be nice outside again. I have faith that it will, but my faith and my patience don’t really see eye to eye. Spring needs to come NOW. I am truly tired of wearing pants.
I signed up to go to Northern Voice a couple of months ago. Unfortunately, when I registered for the conference I conveniently forgot that I am utterly terrified of meeting new people and also of crowds. I’m attending by myself, and I’m freaked right out – I don’t know anyone! I’m afraid of people! Why did I do this to myself? What if no one talks to me? Oh god. All this hyperventilating is making me dizzy.
Internet, force me to suck it up and go to the conference so I don’t chicken out and stay home hiding under the covers where, most of the time, there are neither crowds nor people I do not know.
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Hey Chickie!! Let’s go together! If you pop by my place Saturday morning, I’ll drive us in, and you can feel happy that you’ve got a troublemaker beside you that knows many people at this conference!
Well, I’ll be there volunteering, because it means I get a free t-shirt and get in free. And it’s not much work, plus I get to feel awkward about being back at UBC and being in the same building where a former boyfriend’s lab is.
So, like, between jobs I can come hang with you and Tanya. Normally I have difficulty meeting new people, too, but I still go for the free t-shirt.
We’ve met before too, online and off (blogger picnic meetup one summer), so that’s three familiar faces already.
If you bring your new Ultra Mobile thingie, you can control the level of contact you have with others during the conference. If you’re getting too little attention, just whip out the little fellow and the geeks will flock to you, and if you want a little quiet time, zip it back up in your bag. I think very few people have seen any of the new ultra mobile devices.