riding those bucking broncos

Okay, I flounced around the Blogher party like a crazed weasel... being mildly obnoxious...

Lisa Stone gave me a nice pat on the head and let me babble to her for a while about something, synergy and positive impress-each-other competition and literary salons and how movements form and I believe I said that the way their process was, was like this amazing realization of everything I believed in feminist theory and politics. I keep having that kind of conversation lately and I'm sure it comes off like I'm in some annoying cult.

Anyway, she and Jory and Elisa and Laura Scott all were very happy and party-ish but also exhausted and deer-in-the-headlights from all the work.

I got to hang out and talk a bit with Sour Duck, but we mostly talked about... hair and stuff, and who was in the room... next time must pick her brains about feminism and what she likes to read and what she thinks about Everything In The World.   danah was in full on rant mode about youth culture and the history of young people in the labor force, v. fascinating so that I kept feeling that I was staring at her too hard.  Meanwhile everything was distracting.. I was hyper and exhausted at the same time... and there was always something happening with cameras and microphones in the corner, fortunately always far away from me and my scandalous exhibiting of my natural behaviors.

Meanwhile my heart was breaking because I wasn't at Writers With Drinks... I  had to tear myself away from hearing some amazing performers and from a cosy table with Rook and zAmber and our other friends!  and also missed C.'s comedy and... her dress to die for.  She was in a tight silver dress, lowcut, super classy, that stopped at her hips, and strappy silver platform shoes. Spacegirly! She's a phaser set on stunning!  My god, when she dresses up like that I just freak out. But mostly I so love her for the hard work she puts into that event, all the work that most people don't see, that makes it so good. She's so thoughtful and brilliant and awesome and can transmute anything into, well, something else!

I must remember to blog tomorrow about the other night and our fabulous buffy game with whump and cyn and the gang...

I should go to sleep but i'm all wound up...

Since Jo dared me to show my underwear... well, I kind of hope those pictures come out, and I kind of hope they don't! 

I hope my badgirl silliness moments don't make people ignore the brain, and the things I have to say. because I have a lot of fun at parties... most of the time I'm very boring and sit around in bed in frumpy pajamas with used kleenexes in the pockets, like right now, blogging and drinking plain hot milk, or sit around at my desk or lie on the couch writing whatever, festooned in cats and surrounded by piles of open books. Which is not the impression one might get from looking at photos of a person showing her underwear at parties.

Comments

[Sour Duck]

Hi Liz! Sounds like you had a great night, and you weren't obnoxious at all, so don't sweat that... ;)

"I got to hang out and talk a bit with Sour Duck, but we mostly talked about... hair and stuff, and who was in the room..."

To my horror I realized that I *did* initiate conversation topics with you that uphold certain *ahem* misogynist views that women only care about hair and clothes...! I think really I was trying to initiate a "safe" topic - you know, when you meet women and you want to feel them out, but you want to pick a neutral topic for conversation...? Anyways it was great fun talking with you, so no apologies there. ;)

RE: the boyd. "v. fascinating so that I kept feeling that I was staring at her too hard."

:D You too? (Incidentally, I don't think you were staring too hard, but then, I wasn't the most observant person in the room that night! ;))

"She's a phaser set on stunning! My god, when she dresses up like that I just freak out."

:D This whole spiel about C.'s dress cracks me up...

"hope my badgirl silliness moments don't make people ignore the brain"

Nah - it was great to be around someone who's having fun - that's the point of parties, afterall. ;)

Hope to run into you at another conference some time. Take care - SD