January blog the first.

[andpuff]

Well, I did warn you things would probably be delayed until the end of the month. In my own defense, my high speed has been intermittent at best and absent most of the time. I'm trying this on dial-up but our phone line is so bad it often won't hold a signal so... and I'm back... we'll see

Comments

[an_sceal]

As Michelle and I start getting involved with the working side of cons, I have kept your advice about them in the back of my mind, and I think it's going to be really helpful, not just in presenting ourselves as professionals, but in getting over the social anxiety of "OMG, I have to sit at the FRONT of the room?"

If I remember that I'm there to work, that I already have a clearly defined role to fill, and that I need to be interesting and polite to do it, it bypasses a lot of the anxiety for me. -Someone- thought I was supposed to be sitting behind that table and facing the wrong way, and I don't have to prove that I'm supposed to be there, I just have to be engaging enough that someone doesn't mind that I am.

You may not have intended it, but my model for convention attendance has largely defaulted to "What Would Tanya Do?"

Enjoy Italy!

"What Would Tanya Do?"

[msminlr]

There's a button in that...

Re: "What Would Tanya Do?"

[an_sceal]

I think so!

[apostle_of_eris]

When the Tiptree Mother Board announced (at the Wiscon speeches) that the Tiptree Fairy was sending Freddie Baer to Australia since she'd been nominated for a Hugo, she tried to crawl under a table to not have to go up to the front of the room.

[an_sceal]

I think that's a totally reasonable response! :)