BitterCon

[sallytuppence]

Remember BitterCon? That's the con you go to when everybody else is off having fun at World Fantasy or something, and you have to stay home and work and nurse your grudges and cultivate your jealousy until it acquires a critical mass and

Comments

[tacithydra]

I think one of the biggest challenges when beginning teaching is avoiding being weirded by the experience. Many do not make it through.

Althoug it could just be that they are all secretly attending BitterCon, too, and thus the out-of-whack ratio.

[tacithydra]

Oh, hells yeah. Students can fill up your heart and leave you joyful for hours, and then turn right around and for no good reason cut out part of your soul. And it's nearly impossible to armor yourself against them and connect with them at the same time. Not to mention, you know, colleagues and bureaucracy. My heart goes out to you. I hope you maintain only good levels of weirdness, and not the bitter weirdness that so often prevails.

[sallytuppence]

One thing I love about WisCon is that the drinking/talking ratio is perfect.

I'll send you a file baked in a cake. Or maybe that nun assassin can get you out.