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

[pjthompson]

I'm always up for a party: my BitterCon adventure is working, getting take out tonight after working, cleaning the cat box including mopping the floor where near misses occurred and putting down new plastic and paper, then visiting a friend in the hospital tomorrow. Wooha. Though I concede oral surgery beats all that by a mile.

[sallytuppence]

Though cleaning out the cat box does come close. Ick.

[stevenagy]

I've got the start of a cold and it's difficult to swallow. Planned remedies are lemon-flavored Thera-Flu, Italian wedding soup (because we're not afraid of spinach in our house), and saline sinus rinses. It's a three-for-all. :-)

[sallytuppence]

Saline sinus rinses suck. You have plenty to be bitter about.

[stevenagy]

Too bad it works. :-/

Now if it was only something enjoyable, like the taste of chocolate and peanut butter mixed together, or white chocolate, or a down pillow worked over until it's just right, or cinnamon sugar on oatmeal ...

[ccfinlay]

*wanders in and starts randomly kicking chairs*

[sallytuppence]

*wanders in and starts randomly kicking Charlies*

[ccfinlay]

Hey, when there's only one Charlie, it doesn't look so random!

I'm just mad because I'm also missing Monkeycon this year.

[secritcrush]

But there's always monkey goodness whereever you are.

[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.

[experimeditor]

Man, you guys really are bitter. I'm getting some serious writing done on my novel, actually while everyone at WFC is nursing (or creating) a hangover. Go ahead, hate me!

Hopefully I'll see a bunch of you at Wiscon next spring. . . after the long, cold winter . . . that's not in Austin . . . right now . . . with many of my friends . . . *sob*.

Anyway, it'll be fun, I guarantee it. Plus, it's in Madison, and Madison is way cooler than Austin . . . per capita.

[tacithydra]

Yay! Madison!

I can't wait to stop being bitter, and be in Madison, instead.

[experimeditor]

I live here (in Madison - not on LJ). Maybe that's why I'm not as bitter as everyone else. I mean, how can you be in Madison and still be bitter? :)

[tacithydra]

I think it would be very hard to be in Madison and be bitter. Particularly with such a gorgeous campus. My Madison-love is due almost entirely to tagging along on your tour at WisCon last year, so know that by your acts you have successfully converted at least one heathen to the utter lack of bitterness-induction that is your fair city.