holidays woo
Being someone who crafts/arts as a job results in a strange relationship to the winter holidays. This year I only have two shows, because COVID, but that still means feeling like I can't do anything from November onwards. Thanksgiving is the day of painting and pie and not particularly social. Christmas music mostly makes me stressed until the shows are all done (this year, that's the 19th.) And I cannot with a straight face decry the commercialization of Christmas, because frequently it's where I make a third or more of my yearly income.
I survived GeekCraftExpo (yay) and discovered it is strange to work a table and not be able to smile at people as an interaction, talking is much more necessary. There will be a teeny show for which I have no expectations whatsoever on the 19th at a BBQ bar called the Hidden Door here in Shoreline which opened basically at the beginning of the pandemic. And there is Arisia, which technically is a January show that I mail to, but all the work has to be done in December.
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I survived GeekCraftExpo (yay) and discovered it is strange to work a table and not be able to smile at people as an interaction, talking is much more necessary. There will be a teeny show for which I have no expectations whatsoever on the 19th at a BBQ bar called the Hidden Door here in Shoreline which opened basically at the beginning of the pandemic. And there is Arisia, which technically is a January show that I mail to, but all the work has to be done in December.
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