Arisia Conreport
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sorcyressArisia! Arisia was a con and it happened, and in all honesty it was a weird con for me in a lot of ways. I remain inconsistent with format for my con reports, but I am increasingly liking Sparr's highlights version of "good bad ugly" (with the added categories of awesome and meh). So!
THE AWESOME:
*That moment where I was crying near-silent in a hotel bathroom while my roommates slept on the other side of the wall, and the boy I was with grabbed my hands and kneeled before me and told me with all the conviction he could muster that he loved me and I was wonderful. I love him too.
*Hell, that boy in general.
*Oo, and that first kiss when I knocked on his door. I liked that a lot.
*I had a conversation with Merav, that involved a miscommunication so artfully done that it was worthy of a sitcom. We were each taking a completely different dreadful meaning from the conversation, and there was a lot of laughing when it continued enough to reveal the disconnect. And a lot of saying "Oh thank goodness!" as well.
*Hanging out with Shaenon in the little bits and pieces I did, because glee and she is cool.
*ROBOT PARTY! Also pie and pyjamas but ROBOT PARTY!
*I made a new best friend. She is called Sarah and has amazing taste in dresses and likes ponies and has my contact info, so hopefully that will work well.
THE GOOD:
*People doing inadvertently cruel things and me calling them out on it, and them thinking about what they did and apologizing and hopefully not doing cruel things to people it would hurt more.
*Shaenon will be at NonCon. I have...missions.
*Not starting any new relationships. Which seems to kinda be an every other year thing --2008 Arisia is more or less my anniversary with Magus, and 2010 Arisia is more or less my anniversary with Sparr.
*Okay, that one relationship that's strictly casual but *boy* is NewToy energy fun, even if I didn't get to do much with it.
*HULA HOOPING HULA HOOPING HULA HOOPING!
*Masquerade rehersal was actually fun, as was most of the actual masquerade!
*I went to panels, which is rare and fun.
*All the bits of the con that I'm not allowed to talk about publicly.
*That girl.
*Cat Valente is nice. Seanan McGuire, who I totally didn't even manage to say "you write good!" to has awesome taste in hats. Cecilia Tan lives in Somerville and is totally cute and neat. And I remain completely in squee with Shaenon Garrity.
*Every boy even slightly attached to me.
*Making money for the MS fund!
THE MEH:
*Spilling yogurt on the floor of an elevator in front of a dashing young gentleman I happened to know was very fond of beating the shit out of pretty young (consenting) things. It's not like I had a chance anyways, and I managed to clean it up just fine.
*Learning about the predilections of my parents' friends. I don't mind, it's just a little weird.
*My project of giving interesting little toys and such to people. I didn't get rid of as much as I wanted, but I feel I got more of an overall positive than negative response.
*Eric in Elevators theoretically has scuba gear and it's awesome and stuff. And we want proof of this? I'm not sure? There was a rumour I was supposed to spread, and I don't think I'm doing a very good job of it.
THE BAD:
*Having to hear jokes that make me want to break down or punch something. Mitigated by point one in Good, above.
*Really really stupid decisions that involve taking a whole bunch of tired cranky people who just want to escape, and holding them for longer than they expected or wanted.
*Feeling like a dumb bimbo around someone totally hot and intelligent. In my defense it was like...six in the morning on Monday, and I was tired, but still. I completely fucked that one up.
*Not getting to spend enough time with a lot of people, Brenton especially. My con skewed significantly towards one person, which was utterly awesome, but it also meant that the social bars connected to other people have not filled as much as I expected this weekend. The first couple weeks back are gonna be interesting.
THE UGLY:
*Someone I was potentially interested in having casual play with managed to do something that makes me completely unwilling to have anything to do with him except the strictest of friendships1, for at least several years. Luckily, there wasn't a lot there to begin with but still, justifiable loss of trust (he has proven to me that he thinks his enjoyment is more important than the safety of other people) makes me a sadKat.
*I am an empath. Sometimes this is okay. Sometimes this is flat out awful.
I probably missed some dreadfully important things, but there you go. This is a roughish overview, I suppose you can ask for details if you really want them or if I was unclear about anything I didn't mean to be unclear about2.
I'm gonna go sleep for an hour and a half, eat dinner, and dance like an idiot. Whee!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: And I hold grudges. If you have done something to seriously hurt me in one part of my life, it is not likely I am willing to interact with you in any other part of my life.
2: As opposed to the things that I meant to be unclear about. Which would basically be every time where I could've said a name and didn't.
THE AWESOME:
*That moment where I was crying near-silent in a hotel bathroom while my roommates slept on the other side of the wall, and the boy I was with grabbed my hands and kneeled before me and told me with all the conviction he could muster that he loved me and I was wonderful. I love him too.
*Hell, that boy in general.
*Oo, and that first kiss when I knocked on his door. I liked that a lot.
*I had a conversation with Merav, that involved a miscommunication so artfully done that it was worthy of a sitcom. We were each taking a completely different dreadful meaning from the conversation, and there was a lot of laughing when it continued enough to reveal the disconnect. And a lot of saying "Oh thank goodness!" as well.
*Hanging out with Shaenon in the little bits and pieces I did, because glee and she is cool.
*ROBOT PARTY! Also pie and pyjamas but ROBOT PARTY!
*I made a new best friend. She is called Sarah and has amazing taste in dresses and likes ponies and has my contact info, so hopefully that will work well.
THE GOOD:
*People doing inadvertently cruel things and me calling them out on it, and them thinking about what they did and apologizing and hopefully not doing cruel things to people it would hurt more.
*Shaenon will be at NonCon. I have...missions.
*Not starting any new relationships. Which seems to kinda be an every other year thing --2008 Arisia is more or less my anniversary with Magus, and 2010 Arisia is more or less my anniversary with Sparr.
*Okay, that one relationship that's strictly casual but *boy* is NewToy energy fun, even if I didn't get to do much with it.
*HULA HOOPING HULA HOOPING HULA HOOPING!
*Masquerade rehersal was actually fun, as was most of the actual masquerade!
*I went to panels, which is rare and fun.
*All the bits of the con that I'm not allowed to talk about publicly.
*That girl.
*Cat Valente is nice. Seanan McGuire, who I totally didn't even manage to say "you write good!" to has awesome taste in hats. Cecilia Tan lives in Somerville and is totally cute and neat. And I remain completely in squee with Shaenon Garrity.
*Every boy even slightly attached to me.
*Making money for the MS fund!
THE MEH:
*Spilling yogurt on the floor of an elevator in front of a dashing young gentleman I happened to know was very fond of beating the shit out of pretty young (consenting) things. It's not like I had a chance anyways, and I managed to clean it up just fine.
*Learning about the predilections of my parents' friends. I don't mind, it's just a little weird.
*My project of giving interesting little toys and such to people. I didn't get rid of as much as I wanted, but I feel I got more of an overall positive than negative response.
*Eric in Elevators theoretically has scuba gear and it's awesome and stuff. And we want proof of this? I'm not sure? There was a rumour I was supposed to spread, and I don't think I'm doing a very good job of it.
THE BAD:
*Having to hear jokes that make me want to break down or punch something. Mitigated by point one in Good, above.
*Really really stupid decisions that involve taking a whole bunch of tired cranky people who just want to escape, and holding them for longer than they expected or wanted.
*Feeling like a dumb bimbo around someone totally hot and intelligent. In my defense it was like...six in the morning on Monday, and I was tired, but still. I completely fucked that one up.
*Not getting to spend enough time with a lot of people, Brenton especially. My con skewed significantly towards one person, which was utterly awesome, but it also meant that the social bars connected to other people have not filled as much as I expected this weekend. The first couple weeks back are gonna be interesting.
THE UGLY:
*Someone I was potentially interested in having casual play with managed to do something that makes me completely unwilling to have anything to do with him except the strictest of friendships1, for at least several years. Luckily, there wasn't a lot there to begin with but still, justifiable loss of trust (he has proven to me that he thinks his enjoyment is more important than the safety of other people) makes me a sadKat.
*I am an empath. Sometimes this is okay. Sometimes this is flat out awful.
I probably missed some dreadfully important things, but there you go. This is a roughish overview, I suppose you can ask for details if you really want them or if I was unclear about anything I didn't mean to be unclear about2.
I'm gonna go sleep for an hour and a half, eat dinner, and dance like an idiot. Whee!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: And I hold grudges. If you have done something to seriously hurt me in one part of my life, it is not likely I am willing to interact with you in any other part of my life.
2: As opposed to the things that I meant to be unclear about. Which would basically be every time where I could've said a name and didn't.
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on 2011-01-17 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 02:51 am (UTC)I might do another round of Arisia report --among other things, I forgot a cute story with a bunch of young boys who were totally amusing.
~Sor
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on 2011-01-19 12:03 pm (UTC)I was slightly worried, dropping
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on 2011-01-19 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-17 10:36 pm (UTC)So glad.
Oh, I totally forgot to tell everyone about Eric's Scuba gear stuff!
*many hugs*
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on 2011-01-19 02:50 am (UTC)I totally forgot at con (and as I was writing this report, I actually forgot who it was I was rumouring about) but I will attempt to encourage this for the future.
I'm so glad too. That would've been TERRIBLE on like six different levels. I did tell our mutual friend we were talking about and he laughed.
~Sor
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on 2011-01-18 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 02:48 am (UTC)I will do my best to make him write more. Any specific topics you want to hear about?
~Sor
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on 2011-01-18 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 02:45 am (UTC)I'll give you the full deal next time I catch you on IM, I expect. I don't think it's likely that you will know many people who knows them.
~Sor
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on 2011-01-19 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 02:47 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2011-01-19 02:51 am (UTC)I messed it up too :P
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on 2011-01-19 02:53 am (UTC)~Sor