However, I have done a little mild addressing certain matters of tidying up (I am coming around to the suspicion that Filing Things is a bit too much like That Work Thing I Have Retired From and I need to approach it in small doses).
I am in particular not entirely sure that this time of year is when to venture out seeking New Friends and Human ( Read more... )

I am almost certainly not the person to leap to Wiscon's defence against the accusation that it is cliquey.

I posted some thoughts on that subject 2 years ago, but feel moved to revisit it.

I am not the person, etc, because I realise that one of the ways I manage the blooming, buzzing confusion of those hectic few days could well be considered ( Read more... )

Am home. Am jet-lagged.

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Yesterday I made my ritual visit to the Art Institute (with a quick peek en route at the Chicago Cultural Center, formerly the Public Library, rather splendid if not quite in the NYPL 42nd St class). Spent some quality time with Georgia O'Keeffe, Monet, Kandinsky, and Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures (I had some thoughts ( Read more... )

Have been seeing a number of posts re Wiscon claiming that it was cliquey, that there were various hierarchies of who you were etc. And okay, I think I tend to be at least slightly dim about this sort of thing. (I think my lj and other mates whom I saw there are Coolest People Ever, but have no idea how this would map onto the apparent hierarchy of ( Read more... )

Thinking further about the emotions stirred up by the 'twenty anonymised statements, which may or may not apply to particular individuals reading them'* meme, one strand in my discomfort is that feeling that there's some kind of 'in-group' which is getting all the subtle allusions and jokes, and that anyone who isn't part of that is going to look ( Read more... )